Also: do people imagine that a dick is a sausage? I mean, how much effort would be required to bite down sufficiently to actually incapacitate an attacker? Anything less than severing is going to enrage your attacker and put you in extreme danger. So, how the hell are you expected to do sufficient damage to make the…

Not to mention you would also go from 'at risk of STDs from attacker' to 'at risk of STDs and blood borne diseases from attacker'. Especially if the assault is 'limited' to oral sex.

We should start a response thread to Don Lemon's stupid, insulting question. Mine is "Because, while holding a knife to my throat, he said he'd kill my 7 year old son if I didn't didn't do it."

Yeah, I agree... it's definitely harmful to the public opinion to use "alleged", but it's one of those things where if you're reporting, you have to say that until the case has proven. :/

As a victim of rape when I was a teenager this pisses me off so much. When it happened I was so ashamed and blamed myself. I didn't tell anyone, not even my family. To this day my parents don't know, I finally told my siblings last year and it happened back in 2003. This led to a destructive path of self harm and…

I'll just copy and paste what I responded to another commenter with the same question...

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Maybe Mr. Lemon needs to hear a bunch of these stories to get the point across.

Here you go, Mr. Lemon. Because he choked me and wouldn't let go of the death grip he had on my hair and I knew he had a gun in his room.

I'm so sorry that happened and I'm glad you survived.

This seems to be something that men just do not get- the fear of further injury/murder.

I am truly sorry for your ordeal. Anyone who could do that to another human being should be bunk buddies with Charles Manson. Same thing happened to my best friend and she couldn't swallow right for days. If someone asked her why she didn't bite, I'd probably respond by jamming my fist in their mouth and yelling "WHY…

Ugh. Okay, so I can see how a lot of men—men who haven't been sexually assaulted or raped, that is—could be confused about this on a surface level. A lot of victims of rape don't fight the way, say, a victim of attempted murder would. So they see the victim as somehow complicit with their abuse, since they're not…

Stop using the word "accuser". It makes it seem like she is the one acting upon Cosby and putting all the focus on her, when it should be the other way around.

I just don't get how biting down on it would really improve the experience for the victim...

Maybe there's some satisfaction in maiming them, but you've already been violated at that point, so it's not like this "solution" stopped the assault from occurring.

Possibly you keep them from violating you any further, but…

Next time anyone questions why people who have been sexually assaulted don't come forward, remember these questions and this apology.

I am trying to imagine any other scenario in which Don Lemon would think this was appropriate or, more importantly, relevant at all.

I swear we just had an article about kicking guys in the balls that had lots of people saying if you kick a guy, he's going to beat you down worse. So....If I bite his penis off, he's just going to think "Man, rape is bad" and let me go?

sweetheart. all of my love.

like, one can say something wasn't their intention

"... in this Bill... Cosby... saga... drama... ", he said while shaking his head dismissively.

Why bother apologizing at all if it's going to be a bullshit "sorry you were offended"? The people pissed at you for what you said aren't going to be the ones lining up to accept such a tawdry display of remorse. I'm sure Lemon has a PR manager that he discussed this with - how would that type of "apology" ever get…