So what your telling us is that you are racist and classist. Because suburban middle class are all about empathy. And women don't get sexually assaulted there.

Nope. They're just part of the system, but they do make the assignment. That's just a statement of fact. And you can't tell if someone is XXY or XX/XY with "opposite" functioning parts, etc, etc, just from looking if there is no outward ambiguity. And some people have other issues (I don't process testosterone…

What the FUCK? Where did you get that shit from?!

I stand by my headline. While it seems true from the videos that that she removed her skirt (which had already been pushed up during the altercation), she did so for ease of movement. That makes sense during a fight. But she had already been exposed by being pushed down to the ground.

Thank you for this reply—I'd also like to note that whenever people start using the passive voice to describe things, this is the voice used to obfuscate and deny culpability.

I'm white and can only comment a little, but this has sort of been a racial element I have heard of from POCs - that black men are more likely to assault black women than white ones. I don't know if that is because they will suffer harder repercussions for assaulting white women (which is racist) or because they value…

It is not an important distinction in the slightest, although the fact that you think that it is important reflects very poorly on your character. As does your general eagerness to jump in and defend transphobia on the slightest technicality.

I've wondered if Cameron's extreme Christianity was a response to spending his years around a sleazeball like Alan Thicke.

As a white woman who regularly rides MARTA, I do think this has a racial element but (please don't be mad at me this is just what I have experienced) it's more that no black man wants to mess with a white woman. I know that sounds horrible (because it is) but the history down here really enforces that attitude. Nobody…

His father is apparently a tool, despite what was a fairly squeaky -clean image when he was doing his sitcom. (Thicke was a womanizing tool, Cameron became a Jeezus-freak, and Tracy Gold was anorexic. WTF went on on that set?!)

Yeah but, Pharrell doesn't want to apologize for Blurred Lines or donate his cut to rape crisis charities.

Robin Thicke is a ball of sleaze. I'm still questioning whether he let fame get the best of him and turned into a tool or was he always a tool but kept it more hidden prior to Blurred Lines.

Well, no, it's not, since that's not what I meant at all. What I meant is that if you think there would have been empathy and help for these women in a non-urban, non-"lower class" environment, you're mistaken. Interesting reaction, though.

Are you saying that there would have been more empathy in a small town in Oklahoma?

I have rewatched the video, and we're missing the initial context. At the time the longest video started being recorded, Crosby was already calling out at least one of the men for something. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I am assuming it is because he said something transphobic and it took the amateur…

No, not surprised, exactly. But, I don't know, every story I hear like this does have an impact. My (at this point, perhaps a bit inexplicable) hope in humanity dies a little. I'm glad to see a church fucking step in, though, after all the vileness that so many conservative pastors brought in the discussions around…

It doesn't.

I leave that to WoC and TWoC specifically to discuss. I have been informed that even in violence from BM towards BW, there is a racial factor, but it's not my place to go any further.

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