Yeah, but there’s a push back to that. I don’t know about your timeline, but my facebook is full of shared articles about how he was an abusive homophobic asshole and now there’s one less abusive homophobic asshole in the world.

Clearly a woman can’t have been assaulted unless she’s crying and whimpering in the witness stand. And everyone knows that if a woman gives consent once, that covers every sexual encounter between her and a man, even retrospectively.

You know our city will defend mediocre men until the cows come home. Don't act like this shit is new. People are crying about a dead, crack-abusing, drunken wife-beater who the police didn't even bother publicly outing.

The CBC already made a statement that they stand by their decision to fire him.

They did have someone report on the nature of memory and why it’s possible that retelling of events from 10+ years ago may be skewed.

I watched the 70 minute live blog of the judge’s acquittal and he also said that how a victim behaves after an attack is not on trial here... and then proceeded to discredit the victims…

Oh, for fucks sake. There has already been proof that the handling of this case has scared women away from coming forward about their own sexual assaults. His comments are only going to make it worse.

Judge: “there is no tangible evidence, dna, smoking gun, just the testimony of the women”.

The ‘just’ in that sentence really gets me. Like it’s so inconsequential that three different women on three separate occasions had these experiences.

Don’t know offhand, but maybe it’s a good thing that the 4th woman goes separately. Maybe the judge in that case will deem her “a good enough victim”. I’d rage, but reading the verdict livestream just left me feeling sapped. Why should we even bother reporting? It doesn’t seem to matter what we do. Justice is rarely…

FYI, there was no jury in this trial.

Yup

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK that’s it, it’s vodka for lunch today.

I want to set everything on fire.

I am so gutted.

Every time I hear this song, I think of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “True Lies”.

“Only Nixon could go to China.”

Oriental sages say this is worthy work.

Oh no, I think there are still plenty of “ancient Chinese sayings” and “Native American proverbs” floating around, too. Really any exoticizable Other will do.

ORLY?

“It takes a village to come up with an African proverb.”