@SarahMC: How much pain are you in from all the headdesking?

@Dr. Evil Genius: When Skeletons Live: No one hates cat-callers as much as the women who are victimized by them do. That is just a ridiculous statement. Until it is your own personal safety being threatened by these people, you have no idea what you are talking about.

@HerdingCats: She is absolutely not joking. Also, generally, when people say "men" or "straight men" in this context, they are generally referring to men, as a class, not individual men. Men, as a class, do not give a flying fuck about male harassment/violence directed at women. If they did, it wouldn't exist…

@Munch the BanNail: Thank God A Man has arrived to educate us on our own lived experiences of street harassment! Also, anyone who refers to women as "females" probably has major issues with us.

@chennui: My thinking (and my legal expertise is limited to repeated viewings of Legally Blonde and various episodes of the L&O franchise) is that maybe he could plead down if the family wants to avoid a trial? This seems to be a pretty clear case of premeditated murder to me, if the facts are as reported.

@smartastic: Exactly. Plenty of people do drugs without becoming violent. In one of the DV advocate trainings I attended, we were told that drugs don't CAUSE people to become violent — they provide people with an excuse to become violent.

@RenoDakota: He has been charged with first-degree murder (I would think based on the alleged death threats, which suggest premeditation, though I am not a lawyer).

@Hana Maru, with or without animals: I was talking to my brother, who has a couple of second-degree connections to Huguely, and he has been hearing through friends that Huguely is "a good guy who got mixed up with drugs" (apparently the rumor is that he was on coke when he killed her). I was pretty happy that my…

I honestly don't know how the lawyer can claim it was an accident — though some people elsewhere have suggested that his doing so is a first move toward pleading down to 2nd degree murder.

@KittenFluff: Well, today at least. I have a few other quibbles with the world as well, generally speaking.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: *Raises hand.*

@Jamie Harding: I hope Roethlisberger’s accuser has a better support system in place than your daughter would in a similar situation. As someone with six years of experience as a crisis counselor, I can tell you that nothing delays the healing process for a rape survivor quite like being revictimized through…

@SarahMC: He's gay, so it wouldn't have the usual implications; however, I suspect he believes in his own right to bodily integrity — just not women's.

@battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch: I didn't find him to be contrite at all. In one interview he actually said, "I'm sorry for what I did, whatever it was."

Not surprised at all. I once had a cab driver speak negatively about gay men, apropos of nothing, for almost my entire (UES to West Village) cab ride. #discrimination

He also wrote her a "heartfelt" letter in the most recent issue of InTouch. #lindsaylohan

I would point Diablo to the following:

Just FYI, the term "lame" is ableist; you might want to pick a different word. I realize this isn't the point of the post, but it's hurtful to people with disabilities and those who support them. #maureendowd

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: No, you're not alone. I commented on Kate's original post that the situation and responses to it illuminated our lack of understanding, as a society, about sexual harassment. I figured Kate would be retracting her initial response at some point, actually. Personally, as someone who used to…

That people aren't more (or, in many cases, at all) bothered by this just demonstrates how little we as a society understand about sexual harassment. Even if you don't want to speculate on whether the employees Letterman had affairs with were fully willing participants who were unconcerned about their job security if…