Let’s not blame Caitlyn’s transition for this. It’s not like the giant fucking media circus that she grew up in is somehow negligible compared to that.

this :(

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fellow masters- sending positive, healthy vibes your way because grad school can be really tough. you’re not alone in struggling with how isolating it can be! hope it gets better for you/you finish up quickly and move on.

I mean not all 18 year olds make bad choices but if you’ve never had a particularly stable or loving family situation (being raised on a reality tv show doesn’t seem conducive to that) I feel like the odds are stacked against you even more. And yeah when I read about that a long time ago on a jez thread about them I…

or more likely than not, kris has no control over it and just tries to do damage control/minimize his presence in the endless press they generate because her daughter’s made this choice (dubiously, since again, this guy seems to have been creepily preying on her since she was literally a young teen) and it seems that…

a) like many of us do at 2AM when we’re schmammered and back at home after a night out, he likes Facebook-stalking his exes to just to make everything slightly worse in his life

all of the above is so true but do you remember being 18? no one makes great choices at that age :( also, hasn’t he been creepily grooming her since she was like 14 and a babysitter for his kid back when he was still with his ex? just ew gross no thank you on that whole situation.

gotta love obscene wealth concentration and neoliberal capitalism! wait did i say love

There are huge developmental differences between a 14 and 26 year old that are particularly critical when we talk about ability to make choices, ability to recognize right from wrong and formation/stabilization of your personality. So this is really a false equivalence here. Also, when we talk about adults taking…

Yeah that’s 100% the legal strategy here. Sony’s lawyers know the other fucked up side to this- as a woman in the industry, you’re only worth your youth and your looks.

right though? like if THAT’S your instinct given the allegations of abuse and assault, your instinct is bad and you should feel bad

NO ONE PULL HIM OUT OF THE GREYS PLS.

I guess my point is that blanket statements about what is the appropriate age to date (as consensual adults! - super important) and proclamations of “ewwww” vary from person to person. Everyone’s different.

just here to second all of this. i would 10/10 bang p wilson

I know it feels that way, and I’m the same level of outspoken and thus seen as “too intimidating” - but the way I always think about it is that if I don’t stay true to myself and speak up, even if people are sexist assholes about it, then they’ve already won.

Tbh from everything that friends of mine in math and physics have told me this is par for the course in every damn undergrad in math/phys. Sorry you had to live through that.

cosigned on the comment sections.

I agree, and neither do I. I think that the criminal justice system struggles with handling sexual assault because of this. My original comment was more of a pushback against the asshats who decided that a) these women are liars because of their post-assault behavior and b) somehow making it worse for other victims…

Yes, but the idea is that neutral or positive behavior of victims towards their rapists after the rape is not proof that it didn’t happen. So literally it shouldn’t be “less believable” by virtue of the existence of that behavior.