He was sentenced to 40 weeks that were all suspended. He served no time. What he was facing potentially, ACCORDING TO HIS FAMILY, was actually having to serve that time. He pled guilty to avoid having to serve any actual time in detention.  

The girl told an investigator that Luke touched her “inside and outside of where she went to the bathroom.” She was six years old at the time.

Yeah, they’ll try brown kids as young as 12 as adults, and it’s fucked up, but it’s not coercion, any more than offering to drop additional counts is coercion.

What, exactly, makes you think his guilty plea was coerced? I’m having a hard time believing you’ve read anything about this case, including the very piece you are here commenting on, or you would know that the victim’s parents DO NOT, in fact, believe him. As Diana mentioned, the victim’s mother is on record saying…

It’s that along with the fact that he’s male and the victim is female. American courts don’t give a shit about women or girls being victimized. The courts don’t believe women and girls. White men, on the other hand, get almost infinite chances for redemption. You can practically set your watch to these redemption…

I prefer all of these things to being next to someone wearing lots of perfume and cologne. 

Don’t sleep on the fact that it could be they just don’t give a shit about women. 

Isn’t something messed up when the best course of action for a presumed innocent person is to admit to being a child molester?

And then there’s the whole Central Park Five rape case, or the West Memphis Three.

He pled guilty to molesting her when she was 6 to avoid being charged for molesting her when she was 4  it was a plea bargain.  He is not an innocent victim of an aggressive court, he is not owed success and fame because sometimes the court gets it wrong.  

He pled guilty to molesting her while she was 6 as part of a plea bargain to not be charged with molesting her when she was 4. It went on for 2 years. Her life is forever ruined because of his actions. Good for him, he can throw a fucking baseball, but don’t pretend like there’s some injustice happening here. 2 YEARS…

Not to mention the notion that testosterone levels are all that separates men and women is junk science...

Does the testosterone give her an advantage? Probably. Does being tall and thin give her an advantage? Probably. Does her muscular structure give her an advantage? Probably. The only way to be an elite athlete is to have physiological advantages over most people. No matter how hard I work, I do will not be a top…

This is actually a pet peeve of mine. I’ve been quite broke in the past and the amount of mental effort I took to know what cost how much where was exhausting. I have friends now who want to pretend like they’re as middle class as the next person (while having vacation homes and multiple new cars and shit) who have a…

But she doesn’t “identify” as a woman. She is a woman. She is a woman who naturally has more testosterone than most other women. This is how she was born, and she hasn’t done anything wrong.

Michael Phelps has a body more naturally suited to swimming, and his long arms and torso and shorter legs gave him huge natural advantage over the rest of the competitors. He never had to change anything about his training or restrict the levels at which he competed. People just marveled at what he could do and moved…

Also worth reiterating the point that a commenter made that this is being applied specifically to a black woman, and one who presents with quite “masculine” musculature* and who is an out lesbian. And TOTALLY, exactly as you say, no one is trying to identify and remove any other quantifiable physical advantages in…

This! Michael Phelps reportedly has more significant webbing in his hands and feet than the average person; does he have to have plastic surgery to cut the webbing back because it gives him an advantage? And does the fact that no one has suggested he should change his body to level the playing field have to do with…

I think the governing body for the sport has claimed that hypoandrogenism constitutes an unfair advantage, but higher authorities have ruled those claims unsupported and said they will reconsider instituting the ban on hypoandrogenous athletes if/when the sport presents evidence to support their claims. At least that…

I guess the same way that you ignore the fact that some people have longer legs. It’s a natural physiological difference.