It makes me worried what is probably happening to the women in their home lives to develop that entitlement.

Maybe she thought that she didn’t have to give us a wedding gift because she was a bridesmaid?

While the headline is totally truthful, it’s also somewhat misleading on an initial read. When I hear of prisoners being released, I think that means from prison all together. Sure, they were released from death row and put back into regular prison, but surely there’s a better phrasing for that?

The thing is, teenage rapists don’t even get charged as juveniles most of the time. They just don’t get charged. If we were sending them into some kind of program to rehabilitate and teach them to relate to women in much more healthy ways, I think you wouldn’t see as much of the anger you’re describing on here. The…

thank you. A couple of years ago I was improperly “weaned” off of a med by my doc. The withdrawal caused psychosis (common for this type of med) - basically I got to experience schizophrenia without being schizophrenic. Hearing voices, hallucinating, completely out of character violent outbursts, and all sorts of fun…

I too agree that victims of abuse should ‘drop’ their abusers when they’re in a dangerous situation with said abuser... and I agree that firearms are a perfectly good tool of which to do just that.

Thank you for posting this! I remember seeing the headline and wanting to read it, but forgot completely about it! Huzzah!

I feel like the writer Anne Perry is also a good example of someone who killed and then never did it again (aside from in her books). They also made the movie Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet about the murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Perr…

This is not okay. It illustrates just how little our judicial system gives a fuck about rehabilitation when they are willing to do this to fucking children.

I spent years working in the juvenile justice system. Anyone who thinks that a 13 year old has the same judgment therefore should be tried in the adult court knows very little about current research. Having kids tried as an adult is a political move by people who want to look tough on crime, not a move based on any…

Also consent to a search can be withdrawn. Even if she had previously said, “strip search me if you want,” then second she said stop, they have to stop. According to the officers themselves, she resisted the search. Well guess what officers? That mean you have to stop!

I didn’t put my investigation hat on for it, but I think that video actually shows a cop correcting a security guard. Still a good turn, but a bit less impressive than if they were in the same union.

This is rape.

It’s times like this that I hate my legal education, because, well, if she’s asking for damages on account of a claim that she has been utterly unable to have sex since the incident, then she has to provide at least some evidence that she has been utterly unable to have sex.

I can understand why people might feel that way in their 20s, but as someone approaching 50 who’s still grimly out there on the dating scene it becomes a much more complex. At this point things run the gamut from people who have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams to folks who have had endured a bad divorce,…

I think you’re having some trouble with intersectionality here. Try thinking of it like this:

It can be helpful when you read things to question afterward “who is being left out?” and “do I really believe they’re not uniquely involved/important/effected?” You’re not necessarily going to come up with what it means to their context, but you’ll at least hopefully see how these things are put together and how…

Sir don’t be obtuse I know you know better than that. Black women are raped in higher rates than white women most of those crimes being intra-racial. A lot of black men are consistently ready to shout down black women who talk about misogynoir against black women in our communities and the harm that hyper masculinty…

No, I do not.

Are they ALL just groomsmen? That’s like- three people short of how many people came to my wedding.