pettyshambles
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pettyshambles

That is your take-away?

Actually this isn’t simply brave, although it is; it is the perfect riposte to the school’s effort to gag her and her family from criticizing the school in public as the case against the school continues. The school’s lawyers threatened to reveal her identity if the family did not stop criticizing the school; now she

Sobbing as she tells about her little sister finding her in her closet, where she hides to rock her panic away.

I loved when Savannah was all, “Do you think about him?” And Chessy was all, “Nah!”

I have a comment likely to get lost in the greys, so I figured I’d post it here:

I hope she reads these comments. I hope she knows that strangers support her choice to remain anonymous until now, as well as her choice to go public. I hope she knows that so many people sympathize with the pain she has suffered, or have been victims themselves and understand her trauma.

I hope she knows this

She is so fucking badass and we should all celebrate her. I went to an asshole prep school and knew douchebags from douchebag families exactly like this piece of shit.

how incredibly brave and strong. i want to hug her and protect her and i don’t want this awful world to ever hurt her again.

I’m with you. He’ll slip right into a job of privilege thanks to daddy. He’ll take his bitterness out on vulnerable women he’s scoped out as targets. Later, it’ll be time to settle down with a wealthy girl and breed the next generation of privileged rapists and apologists.

I don't for one second believe this is the first time he has raped anyone. I am really surprised that we haven't heard stories from his classmates about him groping them (because you know he was that guy at the parties).

Except, honestly, I don’t think he or his family think he really did anything wrong. Yes, his life is ruined by his own actions, but he’s just going to get through it considering himself as a victim of damn feminists and that life is just unfair, as opposed to learning a damn thing from the experience, like personal

No. What he means is that young men have futures, and women don’t. If this guy goes to prison, he might never get to finish college. People care about that. Nobody cares about the thousands of women who drop out of school every year because of rape/assault/harassment/partner abuse. You will never read an article about

It makes me wonder if Judge Persky were to fall to the ground and have a seizure, and Brock Turner were to bugger him, would Brock get a longer sentence? How about if Judge Persky took a sleeping pill and fell asleep on his front lawn, and Brock (!) penetrated him somewhere, how long would Turner get? Is it the use of

I hope that there are other parents/families supporting the girl, her parents, and this lawsuit. When this news went public last September, I spoke about it with a friend whose younger sister was in Labrie’s year at St. Paul’s.

If this little shitweasel were black or latino, he’d get many years behind bars, no early release, no fucking sympathy. His further “plight” beyond initial condemnation and conviction, would not be an ongoing subject in the news, either.

I’m pretty sure that God isn’t down with the whole “pre-marital” sex thing, and would be particularly annoyed that he was specifically seeking out virgins for temptation.

In the legal profession incompetence brings its own punishment eventually, that his attorney framed her argument in that manner and actually submitted that crap heap of a letter doesn’t reflect well upon her career arc.

How batshit deluded do his parents have to be? “Hmm, seems we’ve raised something of a degenerate monster. Should we find an expert psychiatrist who might be able to treat him and maybe redeem his soul as he continues into adulthood? Nah let’s dredge the bottom of a swamp to see what kind of craven crackpot we can

Although dismissing rape as “normal teenage sex play” is amazingly disgusting and disturbing, it isn’t the part that I found most infuriating.

My blood started to boil with the constant references to the burdens that God has placed on young Owen.

FUCK THIS SHIT. It isn’t God’s fault, it isn’t the victim’s fault, it

I’m stuck on that masters thesis- 200,000 words?!? That is almost 1,000 pages! And it will magically be published?! And he’ll get into Oxford with it?! Owen wrote this letter, I'm calling it.