I will hate TLC forever for giving these people a platform to spew their bullshit everywhere.

"pre-born"

Don't be fooled. Don't be fooled into thinking that she believes that the removal of embryos is as bad as killing a human being. What she really means is that the killing of Jews is as serious as killing a 5-week embryo. TRUST me. That's how much she cares about the killing of Jews, Roma and gay people. Very little.

That was your first thought? This is the reason the so many victims don't go to the police.

Young girls are often very passive and submissive. I was that way myself. I was terrified of making scenes.

You literally just said that the friend was robbed twice, and then also said he was not the victim of a crime. Why is he not the victim of a crime?

I wasn't there (and neither were you). But giving both the guy in question and his long, and public history of misogynistic behavior, and how rare it is for women to make up rape stories. Yes, I think it's extremely unlikely she is lying. And that while her behavior was risky and stupid, again, that does not mean she…

Yeah, because cops are SO sympathetic to rape victims.

Please have some shut the fuck up. People who have been assaulted act in all kinds of ways during or afterwards (see tonic immobility, for example, which used to be called "she didn't put up a fight, so she wanted it") and denial (aka, trying to survive the anguish of assault by not acknowledging it). Humans act in…

If someone says they were raped, you should assume they are telling the truth until it's proven otherwise. Same thing with any other crime. That doesn't mean we have to assume that this guy is guilty. It means we take it fucking seriously and investigate fully without simultaneously making victims feel like they…

are YOU joking? maybe she's internalized all the shit she's been taught, that maybe she was asking for it, that she owed it to him, that maybe it was just some rough sex. that rape only happens in a dark alley by a scaaaaary black man, not by a youtube celebrity who she was on some kind of date with.

She is probably a silly, immature girl who didn't think it would escalate, was star struck and made some stupid decisions. But here is the thing, friend. We all make stupid decisions sometimes, it doesn't mean we deserve to be raped. Nor does it make it any of less of a crime or awful or her fault that he raped her.

Right. Because every rape victim ever has always been immediately aware of the severity of what took place and never tries to excuse, rationalize or blame themselves for what happen. No rape victim has ever remained silent because they feared shame, reprisal or further abuse for making "a big deal" out of having been…

or maybe she was so shocked, she was in denial, and assumed that what happened wasn't rape.

Wow like women who get the shit beaten out of them and still go back to the abuser. Thank God we have you to tell us what REAL VICTIMS act like. BARF

We don't know if he forced her to go back to the hotel room. He could have made her feel so unsafe that she couldn't say no. Please stop victim blaming, you asshole.

Oh, I know: a friend was assaulted and fucking shot in the head (albeit many years ago, though it's not like that has stopped), which miraculously didn't kill him. Worked on the appeal against NY's ban against gay marriage. Just a question for the universe on a Sunday night. Not at all shocked, but can see how my…

Because at 17 we as a society want to believe there is still hope. The arrests were not for capital crimes.

I know it looks unnerving, but if it makes you feel better this is totally normal behavior. He's probably in rut and looking for a doe to breed - the tongue flapping is a way that they smell for does. The yelling is letting nearby lady goats know he's open for business, as it were. So yeah, he's technically stressed…