Yep, same thing with upskirt shots. You can easily get much more revealing photos on porn sites, but the appeal of the upskirt photos is that they don’t have the consent of the person whose picture is being taken.

Yes. Someone attempting to sexually coerce with very specific, detailed, plausible threats to murder you and others is victimization and is a horrifying trauma. “Genuinely”. It is not a mere “temporary annoyance”.

The pathetic thing about the school’s response was that they blamed me for it. Two days before the incident, I sent him a note saying to leave me alone, that I wanted no contact with him outside of class, and that I was dating someone else who I liked better. They said that if I hadn’t “triggered” him, he wouldn’t…

I’m so sorry, that must have been fucking horrific for you not only because you were assaulted and threatened but also let down by your teachers and the legal system. I’m going to take a wild guess here that even if he wasn’t wealthy, he was definitely white.

As a former medical advocate for rape victims who did a lot of interceding on my victims’ behalf with the cops working their cases...yes. You’re exactly right. My biggest fights were nearly always with the cops working the cases.

I wouldn’t jump to say that nobody’s been hurt. Nobody’s been shot or stabbed, but the girls who were victimized have experienced a horrifying trauma.

Unfortunately, police officers are often more sympathetic towards men and boys who are sexually abusive towards women and girls than to women and girls who are sexually abused by men and boys. So many men (and too many women) believe that sexual access to women is a need and a right for men so men aren’t fully…

Seriously. None of these girls should be forced to go to the same school as someone who tried to sexually coerce her with threats of murder.

Somewhat tangential, but remember the fappening? One of the most infuriating things to me was the men who claimed that Jennifer Lawrence couldn’t be mad about her nudes being leaked because A. she took them, so obviously she wants them to be seen, and B. she posed semi-nude in Vanity Fair, so “what’s the difference”?

The guy who sexually assaulted me and then brought a bayonet to a band concert with a hit list, threatening to kill me and other exes, wasn’t even charged with a misdemeanor. Why? Because the school didn’t call the cops the minute they found him with the weapon. They took the weapon, gave it back to his parents, and…

“We don’t value what we feminize.” This.

Only misdemeanors though! This kid will be back in his bedroom and on PUA message boards by the end of the week

No, they’ll say he was a chinless Beta with “no game” and still blame women.

I took my son to see this last night. It went into a lot of these issues- how we train our boys from early childhood to compete with each other and to dominate girls, to exclude and devalue them, and how then we are surprised when they behave this way.

I hope he's at least expelled too

NO PATTERN TO SEE HERE GUYS JUST HEAD HOME RIGHT NOW THIS IS NOTHING BUT A SERIES OF UNCONNECTED, UNRELATED DOTS HANGING OUT IN MOSTLY ACCIDENTAL PROXIMITY ON THIS CHART. IT MEANS NOTHING.

“It is my right as a male to have women submit to me sexually. If they won’t do it, it is my right punish them.”

I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in our most powerful mythologies, being good and special gets you the girl.

I assume the Ben Carson solution would have been for all the cheerleaders to send him nudes at once...

This is pathological male entitlement distilled.