...yet they did it anyway, which is why they should lose in court.

Apparently not. She was held against her will, taken to an exam room, and forced to show her genitals to a guard.

Women can be power-mad and commit sexual assault too. Not saying that's the case here but it doesn't seem like she objected to anything according to the victim's story.

I would have stuck my fingers in my vagina and painted fuck you with period blood on the wall, but I'm an animal.

How humiliating. All I can say is that I hope she wins the lawsuit. Period.

Germans are relatively unconcerned with functional nudity. It's just a body.

OTOH, Puritanical Americans? OMG, someone is breastfeeding? Call the police!! Someone might see a bit of cleavage, or even a bit of aureole! Maybe a flash of a nipple! Scandal!!!

In the four months I lived in Berlin this past fall, not a single day went by that I didn't see a man peeing in a public place, many times without even attempting to conceal it, including flagrant exposure of many penises directly. If the dude is going in the toilet, I consider that a step up.

Oh, it was the floor near the toilet in his bathroom. Here I was thinking he sued for the right to unzip and piss on the carpet right in the middle of his living room or something.

It really disgusts me when rich assholes steal from their poor employees secure in the knowledge that 99% of the time they'll get away with it and if caught chances are their only penalty will be being forced to pay what they actually owe. It makes me want to puke...right into their dinner.

Rumors about 'witchcraft have been floating around the service industry for a while.

I worked in a pet store when I was younger, and I was also an aspiring jeweler at the time. This lady came in with this gorgeous ring with a giant ruby set in it. I was dazzled, and asked if it was from her husband as an engagement ring, at which point she looked really sad and informed me that it WAS her husband.…

OR she's more of a hack than people are willing to admit.

I'm sorry, I just have an incredibly hard time believing that the most mature 19 year old in the world is as mature as a 42 year old should be. Sure, he acted in some movies and maybe had more experience than a lot of kids his age, but at 19, you just have not lived long enough to know anything. Shit, I'm 30 and the…

I don't disagree on 50 Shades itself—it was shit, and probably would have benefitted from more talented creatives polishing the movie. But James wouldn't sell the rights to the books without maintaining creative control—and I say good for her.

Is it unusual anymore though for books that are so widely read? Gone Girl springs to mind for me. As well as Harry Potter and Twilight. When there is a devoted enough readership base you have to let the writer in.

I'm actually not that mad? I feel like any author would be tetchy about an adaptation of their work, but I also think it's fair for the director to want a project they put their name to to be great. Honestly, the only bad part of this story is that 50 Shades is still a terrible story that romanticizes abuse, and that…

Oh, ok, so clearly E.L. James won this fight, based on the trailers.

I smell Razzies in the feature of this endeavor

How could this project NOT suck? A book that started life has "Twilight" fan-fiction, hastily remade by mass editing out "Edward" and "Bella"?

A heads up for anyone who has been wishing to turn a loved one/hated one into a diamond...