I did not say all porn is “rape.” I said James Deen sexually assaults women for a living, deliberately implying that the type of acts he often performs on camera amount to sexual assault. They do. Sure, the other performers “consent” and are paid. But that doesn’t mean that it is not assault. It means that it is…

I dunno about tweets of any kind being legally binding. But thanks for acknowledging my attempt to be civil. Some other dude has called me a troll. Which is hilarious to me.

I’m not a lawyer. I backed away from law school when I realized that the profession is a much tougher buck than it looks like from the outside.

No. Legally, you cannot consent to assault. If a law enforcement officer comes to your house because someone called the cops with a report of domestic violence, and someone in the house says, “(s)He hit me but it’s ok, I like it,” it’s still assault. Even with “consent.”

You don’t know what that word means, do you?

Look up his videos.

Ok. I’ll give you $40 if I can punch you in the face. Does that make it not assault?

That’s not really what “canard” means. And no, the onus is not on him to do anything. He can sue for defamation or not. But calling a statement defamatory is a contention that if that statement were examined in court, it would be deemed untruthful. That’s just the definition.

Have you seen his work?

No, I’m a porn performer.

You cannot consent to assault.

Calling Stoya’s statement defamatory means exactly that, “I did not rape Stoya and I can prove it in court.” It seems bloodless to a lay person, but it’s the strongest way of calling a person a liar that lawyers can deploy.

It’s a statement that his lawyer composed. But beyond that? Nothing. It’s a statement. That’s it. Does a careful reading of it give you or anyone else sight of the truth? Nope. It doesn’t matter how smart or perceptive you are. You could read her tweets a million times over and his tweets a million times over and you…

I think a guy who rapes women professionally is about 100% more likely to be a rapist.

They’re deliberately making ads that they know won’t be accepted by the prudish standards they’re supposed to comply with and then parlaying the rejection into free advertising. It’s a smart strategy for their product.

I can’t bench half that and I’m quite sure I could have induced the kid to move with a whole lot less violence. Talking first usually helps.

Acted like what? Moody and defiant? Have you ever seen a kid? They ALL act like that.

It’s the company owners, not the drivers. As a teenager in the 80s I worked at a gas station/towing company in Attleboro Mass which was the preferred towing company for that city and a few neighboring communities. Our trucks DIDN’T HAVE PLATES ON THEM!!