That sucks. That lady's reaction was ridiculous. She should have been all effusive apologies and a free drink for you. That said, kids do stuff. Notorious for it. And there's sometimes not much you can do about it as a parent. Like, if you stop paying attention to your toddler for 5 seconds, he or she will do…

I can't even imagine how uncomfortable they are for pregnant ladies!!

Fucking Christ on a crutch. Another opportunity for anti-vaxxers to be like "See? WE TOLD YOU THEY WERE DANGEROUS." Fuuuccckk.

The point isn't whether he did it or not. I don't think Jezebel is trying to prove anything in a court of law. The point is that when a student reported rape, the school's reaction was to punish her. Duh.

This is so fucking awful. Jesus.

Yes. His column is insulting to both men and women. Women: you've been duped! Hoist on your own petard! The realization of your feminist goals has made your only possible partners into sex-seeking douchebot cads! Men: you are clearly lesser beings, all id, no super-ego, mere automatons obeying the demands of your…

I think juerme is just a troll. I still believe and hope that our culture as a whole is better than htis.

??? It sounds like pretty standard street harassment to me. Troll.

See, your initial response to me was so poorly written that your position wasn't clear. What you're saying is: the accuser alleges that she was hit on the head or drugged. Therefore RMFC is not in issue. But you are wrong. There is no evidence that she was hit on the head or drugged. There IS evidence that she may…

You have no idea what my job is, clearly. A prosecutor's job is to pursue justice. Period. MY job is to defend my client against the accusatory power of the state, using any means at my disposal, and to get him or her acquitted if possible, period, regardless of innocence or guilt. I must do so within the ethical…

I appreciate this. Really. If only because I wrote in to attempt to inject common sense and some criminal law acumen into the debate, and I got a confused and ridiculous attack instead of a dialogue.

In the mid-2000s my TEFL friends and I passed a memorable Thanksgiving watching a German video in which a woman has sex with a dinosaur (really a guy in a pretty realistic looking dino suit.) Complete with crazy-looking dino schlong.

I'm just writing to tell you how hilarious I'm finding all the responses to you which say things like "Don't police my genitals/Don't tell me what to do on the internet/stop shaming MEEEE!!!!" They all fundamentally misunderstand your point. You weren't telling folks that porn is dirty and they need to stop watching…

I got a Mirena a few years ago and bled for three months. It sucked. So I think what you're experiencing is pretty common. My gyno put me on birth control to stop the bleeding. If oral birth control is something you can do, healthwise, it might stop the bleeding while your body adjusts.

Great point. You are absolutely right — consent to oral sex doesn't equal consent to vaginal sex. However, consent to oral sex might be evidence, but not proof of, consent to vaginal sex. Because at the very least it's evidence that part of the incident was consensual, as opposed to rape by force or by substantial…

Good lord. Actually, I am a defense lawyer. But no, I'm not going to give you my bar number or prove myself to you.
I'm not telling you how things would shake out in a trial. I'm telling you what the prosecutor was thinking and why this case didn't go to trial. If you have two witnesses who will say that it looked…

The other thing I would have to say is that the accuser doesn't have to worry about being "innocent". She's not on trial. So I don't understand your point about innocent until proven guilty.

Just do me and all the other criminal lawyers out there a favor, OK? If you are ever called as a juror on a sexual assault panel, PLEASE PLEASE out yourself as someone who cannot evaluate the evidence in an unbiased manner. I'm serious. I think you have a moral responsibility to do that. People like you give me…

The point is that it doesn't matter. The evidence isn't there. So the case doesn't go to trial.

This article is dumb. Really. Really dumb. And I say that as a liberal feminist just like most of the readership here, except that I'm also a criminal attorney. Now, I will admit that the victim-smearing done here is bs. Who cares if she dates black guys and that she had a subsequent or previous consensual sexual…