Unfortunately, even then he wouldn’t be. The conviction rate for rape and sexual assault is incredibly low, and even lower for attacks that don’t leave visible injuries. For 99.4% of rapes, the perpetrator doesn’t go to jail or prison. Unlike the people who get to walk for most other crimes, that 99.4% isn’t all men…

Being considered creepy only after asking to take a stranger’s photograph, but not being considered creepy in a normal context like asking to borrow a pen is being “instantly considered creepy”?

“Screw” a woman for what her fifty-six-year-old daughter is doing? Um, why?

Ha. Completely impossible. Allowed in even fewer circumstances than in the South. And it’s the parties who mostly represent Catholics that are pushing for abortion access in NI and are blocked by the parties who almost entirely represent Protestants.

You should care if you’re going to make comments about a situation where the context is fairly recent, horrific campaigns of police and military violence and open job/housing discrimination against the largely Catholic ethnic group in Ireland by the smaller, richer, colonialist, largely non-Catholic ethnic group.

Yup. In NI is it Sinn Fein voting against allowing abortion while the parties representing non-Catholic voters vote for it? No. It’s the exact reverse.

Oh, flats with a suit look dowdy as hell? So all men always look dowdy as hell in business clothing?

I remember De Rossi talking about the way that the show played into her ED and focusing on how the show coerced her into her a lot of semi-nude, heterosexual sexual scenes (when the character she’d originally signed on for hadn’t been planned for that kind of thing at all) and how she felt uncomfortable with that and…

Did anyone hear “No More Parties in LA” and think that it sounded like there weren’t going to weird issues forced onto Kardashian and West’s kids’ sibling relationship?

If the guy is one of the X% of men who would abandon or neglect his child over the child’s name, the child and mother and both definitely far better off without him acting as a parent or partner.

Even as a lesbian, how compliant with conventions of attractiveness men perceive you to be has a major impact on how you’re treated. Not being attracted to men doesn’t mean that you’re not socially punished if you’re not sufficiently attractive to men or that you don’t react to that pressure.

White Teeth sold incredibly well and most people who bought it didn’t know what Smith looks like, so if publishers had rejected it because of her appearance, they’d objectively have been making a mistake. Sure, maybe they would have made that mistake, but “never” is too strong. Do you even know for sure that Penguin…

Your experience is, in this case, misrepresentative. Men do in fact care about make-up–they routinely judge women who aren’t wearing make-up as incompetent, unlikeable and untrustworthy.

Before my time, but I’ve heard good things.

Chewing Gum is so good. As well as being a rare non-mean-spirited representation of working-class people, it’s actually funny, unlike a lot of recent comedy shows out of the US. I remember some noises being made recently about US networks planning to invest more in shows about (and by?) working-class people, so…

No. Literally no-one in 2017 knows how to completely prevent accidental pregnancies, including scientists. There’s no method of birth control that’s 100% effective, even when used perfectly every time. 2 in 100 women who use a male condom perfectly every time during a year of average-frequency PIV will get pregnant in…

The proportion of the defence is both absolutely critical and not made more or less legitimate based on whether the person being restrained feels angry or scared. Yes, I would still be saying that the victim’s emotions don’t change the level of force they’re morally entitled to use to defend themself in a particular…

She didn’t just “want him to stop and was the weaker party”, she had told him repeatedly to stop, tried to get away from him, been physically restrained by him and been told that she’d be physically restrained again if she tried to get away again. Anger rather than fear is a completely normal emotion in that situation…

Even if the victim didn’t happen to die because the bus driver somehow managed to prevent it, I’d say that deliberately pushing a passerby under a bus should be included in both very serious crimes and reasons for the police to think that the attacker might commit crimes while on bail.

No, we have absolutely no reason to believe that this man jogging in an overwhelming wealthy area early in the morning was working-class (a “chav”). Upper-class men aren’t automatically blameless for violence against women.