But what the fuck! Why did it take a public outcry of THIS magnitude for the Norman PD to do their goddamn jobs? Are heads going to roll? Has anyone from the department offered his profound apologies?

As someone who grew up in Norman, I'd just like to say how happy I am to hear this and how proud I am of my hometown. Now let's hope that the courts do their job, as well.

these aren't tears in my eyes, there's just dust falling from the ceiling and it's making my eyes water.

Countdown to his privileged, slap-on-the-wrist punishment begins...

Begin?! They've been slut-shamed right out of school already.

Feminist knitting women: 1

And now the slut shaming of the victims begins.

My favorite class in college was Social Psychology. In the course of that semester, one of the handy life tricks we learned was how to fool a lie detector test. No reason other people can't learn the same thing. I never trust lie detector tests that someone volunteers to take.

It's like where are the "not all men" people when women are being told things like "but why did you trust him," "why didn't you ask what the pill was." not all men folks only pop up when we're being cautious and trying to protect ourselves but then we're told "not all men are like that" and that we should "stop living…

Conversely, I would guess someone who can drug and rape women repeatedly and then go out and pretend he's "America's Dad" could probably pass a lie detector test without much problem.

There's a study that MRAs like to cite as "proof" that women lie about rape. The researcher, Eugene Kanin, refused to name his methods or his location, so no peer has been able to review his results. But the police department where he did his study demanded rape victims——-and ONLY rape victims——-take polygraph…

Never got why people trust them so much. Someone can pass it even if lying and people who are worked up (such as say people with PTSD being asked about their trauma) are pretty likely to give bad results (as in accurate).

Ugh, the "why didn't you ask what the pill was" question is especially gross in Janice Dickinson's case because at the time she was dealing with substance abuse problems, which Cosby had no problem using to his advantage.

I really don't like the way the interviewer was pushing Dickinson about "but why did you trust him," "why didn't you ask what the pill was," and so on. It's really rubbing me the wrong way. It seems to kind of reinforce the pervasive idea that if a woman does anything "wrong," then she can't complain when she gets…

Victims of trauma should NEVER take a lie detector test. They are inconclusive in general, but they are notoriously inaccurate for rape victims who take them under conditions of heightened stress and often experience PTSD symptoms during the high-pressured test. Lie detector tests don't detect lies, they detect…