Wow - really nice way to engage with your readers. What I meant - and clearly I didn't say it correctly so forgive me for not using the exact appropriate words - was that the woman deserves your respect by making the headline clear about the abortion she chose to have - no judgment on my part and I'm deeply saddened…

Yes, I agree. I understand the point the article is making, and it’s an important one, but it’s disingenuous to say that this means the sentence isn’t lenient or that the judge didn’t engage in “coddling,” since that’s comparing apples and oranges.

These stats are old, but no reason to think they are not still pretty close. (From Wikipedia). So the sentence is ABSOLUTELY "lenient" compared to a usual sentence for a *convicted* rapist.

Completely agree. This is exactly what I feel about Solange the abuser.

Larry Wilmore was so fucking weak. Like 3 funny jokes. Probably tied with Joel McHale as the biggest fail. Cecily Strong was 10x funnier and more biting.

I thought he was pretty awful actually. I don't blame the audience for not laughing more.

It’s the latter, the point being that much of our society is built around non-consensual relations, such as taxation and laws, which I presume you support despite their lack of consent of all parties involved.

Oh, come on. Be serious. People tell workers all the time stuff like that. “My taxes pay for your salary! I come in here all the time. I pay your salary. Blah, blah, blah!”

Why is it always dudettes downplaying the word rape by using it way out of context for their own validation, and then guilt tripping others by affirming their rape victim status when they object?

It’s pretty funny that regressive leftist rape victims appropriate the word rape on behalf of other rape victims who don’t whip it around like a free pass to say anyhing they want to victimize themselves even further.

I feel like only on this website would this get this many likes.It’s not just anytime people do shit without permission, that it should be called rape. Geeze.

Yep. That absolutely undermines actual rape in much the same way that holocaust/slavery comparisons undermine the actual events.

As a fellow survivor myself, I find it sick that you would use the fact that you were raped to make someone feel bad for having a different opinion than you. Katmandu had every right to disagree. You saying “as a rape victim” to justify you OPINION ABOUT A CELEBRITY GETTING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN ON THE STREET is the…

You are not the only person who’s been raped or talked about it here. While rape is about control, not everything controlling is rape. Using rape to describe a non-rape, belittles rape victims.

Yes, I agree that his actions are definitely part of rape culture. But describing something as rapey when it isn’t, in fact, actual rape downplays the seriousness of rape.

I understand what you’re trying to say with this, but I think it undermines the serious nature of actual rape to use that word in relation to anything other than the literal act. Just my two cents.

Please stop using rape as a descriptor for things done without consent. Trespassing, theft and harassment are all done without consent by definition, yet are not rape. You are only diluting the power of the word and encouraging dipshits to use it where it does not apply at all, like sports competitions.

I thought we’d actually gotten past this using rape as a descriptor thing. Unless it’s actual rape, no you don’t get to use rape as a descriptor.

I agree this gay went too far, and is a ridiculous asshole... but camera lenses feel “male gazey” and “rapey”? To a woman who has done “scandalous” photoshoots for many magazines and being on camera is literally her livelihood? No thanks, for the rape pseudo-comparison.

I don’t know - I get the impression that he would act like an entitled dick to anyone, just to inflate his own ego. Probably the bane of all waiters in a 50 mile radius. An “Equal Opportunity Annoyer”, if you will.