there doesn’t need to be two party consent for recordings in many states, either...

There doesn’t *need* to be two-party consent to disclose the content of an email - emails aren’t secretly recorded conversations.

Facebook will say:
We are very sorry for this technical difficulty. It was not related to Mr. King’s relationship with CNN.

I know a few ladies who will be very pleased to know this and will happily draw hearts around his picture even more joyfully with this news.

That’s not unfair assessment. But you assume that the rapist is a scumbag and the officer in charge of helping find said “scumbag” has sensitivity to the victim.

The animal kingdom makes its feelings known about these goddamned people.

not necessarily all that unwilling

Whenever I read stories like this, I wish there were a GoFundMe type organization where instead of sending money, you can send cards telling the survivor that they are valuable and deserve goodness. I can't imagine going through something so terrible and hearing from the person whose literal profession is to protect…

If that were true then they needn’t have mentioned that she wasn’t “necessarily all that unwilling.” In terms of legality, she was raped.

Holy Shit. They’ve figured out a way to assault women and little girls in the restrooms without dressing up as women! What have we done!? You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

hopefully i’ll just be echoing what everyone else is saying (because it’s the right goddamn thing to point out) but

It’s almost as if refusing to protect trans people didn’t stop straight men from going into womens’ restrooms to assault children there.

Also:

Oh good Christ. Just because a 12 year old is compliant doesn’t mean she wants to have sex—it means SHE IS TWELVE and accustomed to taking orders from adults, which is exactly what makes children vulnerable in the first place, you HALF WIT. Never reproduce, Detective Kelly.

In order to preserve what’s left of my sanity this Wednesday morning, I’m going to choose to ignore the seething SEETHING WTF RAGE this detective incurred and focus on this screenshot instead.

Is this an irony test?

I regret that I’ve only seen the first few episodes of that show. It’s a pain to get on DVD via Netflix. Sounds like I should really finish watching. They were a great comedy duo.

“I know there are a lot of people who support me,” she said this week in a personal interview in Platte City. But what she has experienced most is the chill from “the people who refuse to believe me…”

“Paden’s adult son, Anthony, has also been charged with sodomizing the victim. His case is currently pending.”