"One of the factors that allows rape to be perpetuated in our society is the vindictive belief that some people deserve it. It doesn't matter if you believe that the victim deserves it because they are wearing revealing clothes or because they are in jail for raping children. No one deserves to be raped."

Even if it were violent offenders that get raped, that doesn't make it okay. Its never okay.

It should matter in one way, in the way the op-ed points out: the fact that he fit the stereotype of "a good one" used by racists to pretend they're not racist (cause see, they like "the good ones" it's just "the bad ones" they dislike! obviously!) and was beaten anyway shows that really it doesn't matter how "good"…

It shouldn't matter that he's educated and well-dressed and adorable. IT SHOULDN'T FUCKING MATTERRRRRRR AARRRGGGHHHH

*cough* Lolita *cough*

I respect your right to have your opinion, it sounds like it is based in personal experiences like mine is.

From *my* personal experience, most non-monogamous relationships are not based on ultimatums and are not untenable. Most non-monogamous relationships I have personally observed or experienced were based on a…

Escaped? Bullshit. Right now those two are out there solving Sleepy Hollow Forest's toughest mysteries.

Because that is an actual nonsense garbage diagnosis, you can't be diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 12/13. The psychiatric community does not recognize schizophrenia as a legitimate diagnosis until late teens/early twenties, when symptoms start to present themselves. Although children can exhibit indicators, like…

I think we need to have a conversation about violence & masculinity.

Turning down guys who can't take no for an answer on online dating is seriously the hardest thing (and usually ends with them getting reported and blocked). You don't even have to be subtle—- you can say, "Sorry, I'm just not interested in you" or "NO" and still get bombarded with messages for months and months. Then…

Chalk that up to another reason Western Pennsylvania is a terrible place with terrible people.

I thought the landlord was wearing her pajamas. Yay for awkward wording.

This, right here. I envy and sometimes resent my husband and white friends because they can just go through life without dealing with this. Like, I can't even go into local store and buy pantyhose or foundation that suits my skintone. I have a white friend who was like, "I'm so pale I can't find powder!" It's. Not.…

Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.

It's what the american justice system was designed to do from the ground up, I'm afraid. In vast swathes of this country, the purpose of breaking ground on a police station was so there would be armed men capable of hunting down and killing black people who did not submit totally to white rule. Any enforcement of law…

you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case

"Oh please. it was a tragic event where two people made mistakes."

Well a lot of those Jews didn't complain about the holocaust right away. I mean if something bad happened they should have reported it to the police.

No it's not wrong. It was exactly my first thought. For all the women who've been subjected to violence from catcallers, it will (as always) takes a man's cosign to the movement (and proof that he in fact suffers from the scourge that is catcalling) for it to catch any real momentum.