Also, what are the laws on keeping quiet if you are made aware of sexual abuse of a minor?

This is so frustrating. That this is still going on with the same people who were doing it 20-30 years ago...

And considering that children are very unlikely to come forward and often don’t even admit to anyone what happened to them until they’re well into adulthood, at the very least a statute of limitations on child abuse and rape should be very long.

The way we continue to treat the people who have been brave enough to come forward is a good way to discourage people who haven’t come forward. With the way the statue of limitations works there is a massive risk that those who do come forward are still in the industry and therefore will lose their job safety or their…

I don’t blame him for not naming names. Because, inevitably, there is the faction asking about proof.

What is the logic behind the statue of limitations for child abuse and rape cases? Considering the likelihood of repeat offenses, I would think that these crimes should have much longer — or indefinite — time frames to prosecute.

I can't even imagine being in that predicament. I mean to know that these pedophiles are still out there but if you speak out you're the only one who would face any legal issues. That's just ridiculous and probably such a difficult thing to live with.

Even if she was in contempt, I believe there are proper legal procedures to be followed instead of treating her like a child and making her sit in a corner?

Hey. I used to really love the Little Mermaid sequel.

Yet he will forever be Conner, Angel’s son, to me. Back from the hell dimension, knocking chicks up.

I’d say, “no, but 1 in 3 women have.” Or whatever the right statistic is now. Or “what would you do if I said yes right now? Are you really prepared to have that discussion? Or can you perhaps accept that rape is fucking repugnant and seeing it in every other goddamned movie is something I might find disturbing?”

SO to Bryan Fuller, who refuses to depict or use rape storylines in any of the series that he fronts because RAPE. IS. NOT. A. METHOD. OF. STORYTELLING. I mean, the man created Hannibal for television and HE managed to not use rape as a means of storytelling, so it’s not THAT hard.

So fucking weird. And with how much it’s not only a part of a girl or a woman’s story, but also depicted in the films and shows, there’s gotta be something they like about that. Men are raped too. Boys are molested too. Babies are molested. But it’s weird...people don’t want to watch a lot of movies with babies being…

In re-watching old favorite 80s movies, I have noticed how casually rape is used as a source of male character development as well. I do not understand how more people are not deeply disturbed that Marty McFly was going to “fake” sexually assault his mother so that his father could come in to save the day and win his…

That’s how I felt about the ENTIRE “Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest” series.

Things explained by the character having been raped:

Not to mention that this character motivation assumes that men are inherently violent and doesn’t address male violence as a chronic social illness. It becomes self-fulfilling too; while not every man is dangerous, I’d tell every woman who asks that men shouldn’t be 100% trusted.

I mean, I love it, totally a problematic fave sometimes, but yeah. At least Outlander is equal-opportunity rape though, and the main female character has other things besides rape that define her development. How often is rape the driver of male character development?

It’s kind of how rape doesn’t really happen and women are making it all up. Until it’s immigrants or refuges committing the rapes. Then it’s a real thing and women must be protected at all costs.

The best way to reduce abortion is to reduce poverty. The problem is the “pro-life” crowd keeps electing politician that want to cut assistance to the poor. So, the “pro-life” crowd actually helps to create the conditions that increase the likelihood that women will choose to have an abortion over giving birth. Of…