Whoever was advising Michael Vick after he was arrested was smart as hell. Rather than fighting the charges in court, Vick’s attorneys offered a surprise guilty plea. That kept the photos and testimony mostly out of the public eye. Vick did his time, came back and proved himself on the field. I’m a dog lover, but I…

Diana wrote plenty of similar pieces when Ray and Janay Rice were in the news. This is a continuation of her excellent work here, not something new.

If one studies DV (and sexual assault), one learns these crimes have very, very low arrest and conviction rates for a multitude of complex reasons. Diana Moskovitz has written some great pieces here at Deadspin explaining why that is for DV. It poses a serious problem for the NFL because fans, especially women fans,…

Elderly women of all races, as a result of Republicans’ voter supression efforts. They don’t have have their birth certificates and the issuing agencies have long disappeared.

I didn’t perceive you as slamming the Kardashians/Kim at all. I felt you were trying hard — and successfully — to make a point distinct from them.

That map is pretty persuasive.. I suspect most people who have an opinion on the subject don’t know their geography. Thank you for the lesson :)

Spectacular! 

I may have had a beloved dog’s bed monogrammed, a time or several.

Thanks for the warning. If it’s a Shrayber find, I don’t want to read it.

Those were two cents worth giving. Thank you for speaking up.

You are not wrong. This kind of thing has been going on forever, without the photographs and filming, obviously. But none of us in Los Angeles or New York ever heard about places like Maryville, Missouri. Heck, we rarely heard about the vicious teen rapes in small-town California and New York, and every state…

Have you heard of the Cold War?

We had atomic bomb drills in the 60s. Pick your poison.

Excellent comment — you really nailed everything that’s so terrible about this man and his crimes. Your last sentence is perfect.

It’s depressing. Not too long ago I googled the state of U.S. laws on the subject -- how many states mandate sex ed, how many mandate medically/scientifically accurate sex ed, and the results are horrifying.

What’s especially crazy about this story to me is him Snapchatting the photos to her ex. I sort of understand rape, but what kind of narcissistic sociopath/psychopath does that?

You’re a great daughter!

There are a lot of women who don’t seem to understand women’s genitals, thanks to our piss-poor educational system :(

I thought it was a lot higher. The “much higher” number must be the percentage of women who rarely have them. (Feeling too lazy too re-Google.)

Is this guy a sociopath? Two alleged rapes seems pretty ordinary for today’s college football player. But Snapchatting photos and videos to the alleged victims ex?