“When you agree to meet a strange man in a strange place for the purpose of having [a blind date/a job interview/contract negotiations], you are putting yourself at risk for harm.”

This is academia distilled.

Thank you for sharing. I think your perspective is very necessary as many sex workers don’t have the resources, opportunities, or ability to speak out so eloquently.

This. That fucking Mary Mitchell article can be adequately summarized as “rape is something that only happens to people, and being a prostitute makes you an object.”

There is no occupation that precludes someone from being raped.

“When you agree to meet a strange man in a strange place for the purpose of having strange sex for money,” Mary Mitchell says, “you are putting yourself at risk for harm.”

I work at a hotel in a suburban town in Ontario. Some of our regular guests are sex workers, some I know by name, others just by what I’ve been told. In between mean comments by my coworkers - allusions by men twice their age to “what those girls do” - I attempt to always be aware of their clientele, and their general…

Another article I read said they weren’t releasing more information to protect the privacy of the student. Like all of a sudden they give a shit about him. Fuck these spineless bastards, I know they’re probably just trying to cover their ass for the inevitable lawsuit but they’re assholes.

Keep doing your thang, little dude. Get the fuck out of that shitty town. Go out there and invent some cool shit for the world to use.

Yeah, I’m curious to see if his parents will keep him at that school, because I can’t imagine going back there after all that. Like even aside from all the bad feelings I’m sure he’s got, these people are supposed to be educating him? These people that can’t tell a bomb from a clock?

Pfffft. Classic. So they handled a purported bomb threat without evacuating the school, calling the bomb squad...anything most jurisdictions would do. I don’t think that’s how ‘following protocol’ works, Ms. Mayor.

Nothing would make me happier than to see this child with a full ride to MIT off the backs of these islamaphobic fucks.

If the story is so unbalanced, why doesn’t Lesley Weaver provide more info to support the reasoning that this kid should have been arrested? Maybe because there isn’t any? I hate when this kind of shit comes out and the assholes responsible double down on their assholery.

They always do that, don’t they? Say we don’t have the “full story” or “all the facts” but never reveal what those things are.

I laughed when I read the statement from the mayor of the town saying that she believed the school and police followed the right procedures for a “possible threat”. So, procedure says not to evacuate the building when they feared there was a bomb present? Not calling the bomb squad? Interrogating a minor without…

I really believe that they just wanted to be mean, but maybe that’s giving them too much credit because I also believe that they’re dumb enough to have thought that it could be a bomb.

I seriously want to know their reasoning for not calling in the bomb squad if they were so concerned that his clock was a bomb and not, you know, an actual clock.

Being arrested is pretty cool, tho.