It may not automatically bias you (although it’s clear from your initial assumption that this was a woman, you do have some deep-seated biases), but that should be for the jury selection attorneys to decide. From personal experience, I went to jury selection for a capital murder trial, and was dismissed because I’m…

Why does that seem bizarre to you? Do you not agree that someone who has been raped may have an implicit bias against someone accused of rape?I for one know I would.  

The issue was that the juror didn’t disclose that he was a “victim” in the statutory rape case (because, according to him, the relationship was consensual, with an older man). And the juror was a man.

You have to, at the very least, disclose it in the questionnaire if asked. All sexual assault cases will ask if you or a close family member have ever been a victim or convicted of sexual assault. Important to note here, the jury foreman was a man, not a woman.

And if Jezebel were a credible website/publication, as opposed to the agitprop rag it is, you could take your self-celebrated masters degree in journalism—from Columbia, duly noted—and flush it, Anna Merlan. But the only journalism Jezebel cares about is strident, profane, unthinking devotion to the cause, so its all…

I don't know whether the Rolling Stone article is true or not, but I have learned that you, Anna Merlan, are an insufferable douchebag.

Why does your journalism degree from Columbia mean anything in defense of your argument? It is a 1 yr degree that costs 50 thousand dollars per year. There are plenty of people doing exactly what you do without it. It doesn't make you a better journalist or smarter than anyone else. It just means you went to class for…