If you lived in the fraternity where the fake assault didn’t happen, with protesters round the clock, death threats, and cinder blocks crashing through your windows, you may disagree that there were no victims. Also, a couple of UVA administrators had their good names smeared.

That seems to be the Academies M.O.: snub an actor for a brilliant performance, wait a few years, try to rectify the mistake by giving them an Oscar for an ok performance that isn’t the best out of the current nominees, thereby snubbing someone else more deserving, wait a few years, rectify THAT mistake by giving them…

No, he deserved an Oscar for both “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” and “The Aviator”. If (*coughs*when*coughs*) he wins for the Revenant, I’ll treat this like I treated Denzel Washington’s win for “Training Day”... I’ll pretend he won for one of his better performances (in Denzel’s case, “Malcolm X”).

Yes, “fudged.” She invented a guy that didn’t exist, a gang rape that never happened, on a night that the fraternity in question did not throw a party. Any journalist with a shred of professionalism and integrity would have abandoned this non-story after doing the very basics of her job.

You really should read up on the facts about this case. When Jackie first claimed/reported to Eramo that she was assaulted, Eramo did everything basically by the book in order to try and help her. It was Jackie who chose not to take any action. Jackie then later told (a different version) of her story to a reporter of…

I blame the magazine for its recklessness and complete failure to vet the story.

In the scenario, the lawyer sort of has to go scorched earth on the story, because the standard for winning a defamation case as a public figure/institution is pretty high.

I’m going to get lots of flak for this, but I kind of love it. Because ten years after I was in a sorority, I know that I’ll never have been as hot as I was then.

I write & if someone said they picked my book up because they think they should read more African American authors - I would feel sick.

I read like a voracious word slut. I will do anything for a character that gets under my skin, for a wordsmith that spins a tale. Fuck that - poetry is my favorite tryst.

Talk about the books those women wrote. What you enjoyed about them. What you disliked about them. Recommend their books to other people. Start book clubs that feature them.

That’s a defender’s job. That’s a noble calling. I mean he gave us the Kardashian’s and all, so I’m not putting him up for sainthood and he married Kris, like how messed up was he. However we need people to defend the innocent, the guilty and the we don’t know, other wise what is the point of law?

Unfortunately with American Christianity, there's a certain part of the population who don't even think Catholics worship the same God, despite the two branches of Christianity being undeniably historically tied. Suggesting all Abrahamic religions are related would probably make their brains explode.

It’s to encourage victims to document and report. I doubt rapists are going around confessing their crimes.

You can also look at male performers who are seen as “A dime a dozen” and are more liked for the size of their equipment than anything else. Porn is an industry that uses and casts off all of their performers at an alarming rate.

If you chose to live in a country it’s only decent to learn the language of said country.

From the BBC: “What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.”http://www.bbc.com/news/world-eur…

The right wing is latching onto this as a pretext to discriminate against all Arab immigrants and asylum seekers. And that’s fucked up. But that doesn’t make these men’s backgrounds entirely irrelevant either because this was an organised attack and because if you’ve ever traveled to the Middle East or North Africa,…

I tell you I come from the middle east, and when someone tells me that our culture is not more macho blabla I feel SO disrespected, because I feel treated like a small child that can’t take criticism. Taking my culture seriously means judging it according to the same standards everyone else is judged. My mom, my…