Also, don't say "I love women. Women are beautiful" (see the story of the literary creep). That means the opposite of what it appears to mean. It means you're a person and women are things.

Ignoring of course the THOUSANDS of untested rape kits piling up in certain districts. When VOLUNTEERS finally when through a bunch, the found serial rapists and SERIAL KILLERS that would have saved women if the kit was ever tested. Look up the stats on untested rape kits, look up the stats on how many rapists…

Oh fuck you. Actually, don't fuck you. No one should fuck you ever since you don't understand the nuance of rape and sexual assault, which means you definitely don't understand the nuance of consent and boundaries. Do you know how fucking terrifying it is to admit to yourself you've been raped? To wonder what someone…

You need to stop. You are being told by multiple people, including people who have actually been through it, that rape victims react in a variety of ways, and you don't get to decide which ways are ok. And you certainly don't get to decide that reacting a way that you don't find logical means that the story is false.…

All a rapist has to do to get away with it is commit a rape that rape apologist assholes like you can dismiss, and he's free.

Please have some shut the fuck up. People who have been assaulted act in all kinds of ways during or afterwards (see tonic immobility, for example, which used to be called "she didn't put up a fight, so she wanted it") and denial (aka, trying to survive the anguish of assault by not acknowledging it). Humans act in…

Gosh it's almost like something traumatic happening to a person can cause their thoughts and actions to deviate from expected norms. But naw, let's go ahead and assume she's lying and lecture her about how REAL rape victims are SUPPOSED to act, that seems like a much better course of action.

no, you have some common fucking sense, you ignorant asshole. do you know how many women suffer through rape and, because it wasn't violent stranger rape, assume what happened wasn't, in fact, rape? as a defense mechanism for what just happened to them.

Right. Because every rape victim ever has always been immediately aware of the severity of what took place and never tries to excuse, rationalize or blame themselves for what happen. No rape victim has ever remained silent because they feared shame, reprisal or further abuse for making "a big deal" out of having been…

As I've commented to multiple other people, Laura isn't saying that what she was wearing matters. She's saying that people will ask the question — and you know they will — and she's pre-emptively shutting that shit down. It shouldn't be relevant, but sadly, that's where we are.

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That's how I read it too; that objects and motifs from China are infused with fantasy by designers, artists, and merchants, not by the curators themselves, and that the show will be an exhibit about Orientalism, not an Orientalist exhibit. I don't know about China so much, but Japan has certainly been complicit in…

The title of his article alone is a warning that his article is bullshit. It's not that no one ever told you these things, but you willfully ignored topics about misogyny and women's rights.

He still doesn't understand that women are the same kind of people like men. If anything, it seems worse because ALL women mystical magic unicorns love pink shit, weddings, boys, et-fucking-cetera.

I don't think you got my point then...I distinctly said "It may be a reason but it should not be excusable" just swap out reason for source, and there you go.

WELL said. a woman can hope to have her personhood recognized by only a handful of men, and you really illustrated how the personhood is only recognized in relation to a man's personhood, when it happens.

I see you haven't let the fact that you allegedly care about these issues stop you from being a patronizing jackass to women. Very few men care about these issues, period. But nice try trying to spin it into *my* character flaw.

Now, all you have to do is raise a son who has a better attitude towards women than the guy who wrote this article.

That other human beings are people?! Yeah. I guess it's hard to overcome that cultural conditioning. Until, of course, that other human being comes from your sperm. Then, suddenly it's clear as day.

Well, I guess it shouldn't necessarily be "easy" but I don't really buy the whole excuse of using cultural conditioning to excuse this type of thinking or behavior - the type that allows people to treat another group of people as 'less than' or not wholly worthy of the full spectrum of human rights and respect. It may…