I mean, isn’t Martinsville the birthplace of the KKK? So, yeah embodiment of modern racism sounds about right.

Not a Hoosier but I spent 6 years in exile in Martinsville in the late 90's. Coming from Seattle, so total culture shock.

I was born and raised in Bloomington. Every time our high school basketball team played theirs, there was a fight. Because our team had black players on it.

That Martinsville burn is strong.

Open thread pt 3 about the awfulness of Kilroys Van Wilder fuckboys from Naperville or even Plainfield IL but say they’re from Chicago?

Open Thread pt 2 for any person darker than beige who has been pulled over on 37 by Martinsville cops!

I had two friends freshman year that pledged frats and this was ABSOLUTELY the way I felt about them. Suddenly “homo” was every other word (unacceptable for me at any time in my life) and rape jokes were so funny.

I’ve spent most of my adulthood on college campuses because between undergrad and grad school, I was…

Because of the light sentence. Because it’s unacceptable. Half of us are Chicago suburb kids by birth, too, so it’s become a talking point of “fuck this bullshit”. We weren’t those kids who did coke, hung out a Kilroys every saturday, and got bailed out by our parents for getting arrested. There are a lot of those…

My sister worked in Martinsville briefly as part of a field service for her degree which was required. She had a longterm BF at the time who happened to be black. She basically was told by her supervisor NOT to tell the other workers for fear they would lose it.

My godfather and godmother live in B-Town (they returned…

My high school boyfriend, who I amicably broke up with just before graduation because “we’re going to different schools/I’m a lesbian and can cut this charade now” went to IU and joined a fraternity. My high school boyfriend was sensitive and kind; a great beard, actually, and a great friend. After one semester in an…

Can this be open thread for former Hoosiers to talk shit about Martinsville?

There’s something very unsettling about pleaing down two rape charges to misdemeanor battery—but there has to be some practical reason for them to have done this. Yes, I know, !rape culture, but the state’s/district attorney must have some ostensibly legitimate justification for this move, and I’d be interested to…

as an IU grad I an saddened but not surprised by this. How many times was there a report of sexual assault on North Jordan. How many times has a fraternity been involved in shitty behavior? What is it going to take for IU to really do something about the problems with the fraternities at IU?

Sounds like the townie has an easy time sympathizing with the rapist. Big red flag. I would recommend never being around that person in real life. I’d be worried they’ve done something like this before.

i dated a bedford guy once. it didn’t last long.

I think I'm going to always keep a small amount of cocaine on me so that if I get raped I can plant it on my rapist so I know that he will actually get jail time for that at least :/. (Kinda sad that this is true)

Sexual assault charges should not be eligible for plea bargaining, and minimum mandatory sentences should be measured in decades.

Yeah I actually knew someone who was arrested with a joint in his pocket. The original arrest was a minor non-violent offense resulting in only fines. Having the joint in his pocket when he got to jail was a felony apparently (on top of just possession which was a misdemeanor), and he got like 10 years probation I…

Now if he had a joint in his pocket when he raped them, he would have gotten several years.

We really should stop treating Rape like it’s equal to murder.