The physical attractiveness of an assailant has nothing to do with the seriousness of the assault. I don’t care if she went on to assassinate the freakin’ pope - what she looked like had nothing to do with the act.

Is it raining? Is it cold? Is it baking hot? Did the actor just spend an hour getting out of uncomfortable makeup and is bone-tired and feels like he may have a cold coming on and needs to save his voice and just wants to go off the clock and be a civilian and go home and sleep, but still has to face getting on the…

one of the least attractive girls in school

I get it, and I adore Branagh, but “just 10 minutes here” and another 15 there...when does it end? It’s like when your boss says you might have to stay late or come in on Saturday. Branagh’s job may be more glamorous and better paid but at some point he would probably just like to get home.

Honest to god, being near Hollywood doesn’t mean sexual assault is worse if it’s an ugly person doing it.

It’s basically suggesting that sexual assault is worse if the person committing it is unattractive. Which means sexual assault is better if the person committing it is good looking. Which is just all kinds of wrong, not to mention a cherished MRA belief.

What does “least attractive” have to do with it? Would it have been less creepy and wrong if the girl was pretty?

Someone in the Dirt Bag comments yesterday was whining about how terrible Amy Schumer is because the asshole fan she called out was now going to get rape and death threats. My first thought was, “You are ridiculously naive if you think HE’S the one who is going to be inundated with hate and harassment over this.”

At a SCA costume ball I went to there was a survivor dressed authentically as a amazon. Seriously badassed woman.

I think what is disturbing is you seemed to be saying that voluntary expressions of female sexuality mean the loss of the right of consent. She did sexy photos therefore never has any right to say no. That’s kind of what you’re implying there.

I might have been willing to accept your point of you if you hadn’t belittled me with the ultra-smarmy way of telling me what words I get or not “get to” use. “Rape” shows up in this discussion not because the incident is a literal rape, but because many parallels can be made about trespassing against a woman’s…

I addressed that directly and literally said I’m not undermining that. It’s a spectrum of violence is what I said. When men don’t take “no” and “stop” seriously in other cases where a woman feels violated, it’s part of the same culture of disrespectful non-consent. There’s really nothing you can say that will sway my…

To a woman who has done “scandalous” photoshoots for many magazines and being on camera is literally her livelihood?

so along those lines you can’t rape a hooker??

Hey B, because Katmandu dismissed my comment, I’m replying here to repost it:

Ah, ok, you dismissed the comment in which I, a rape victim, object to you telling me how I “get to” speak about things? Classy, Katmandu.

911 i need an ambulance i have been burned by a hot take

I think we also need education on red flags that can escalate into violence. I walked out of a first date bc the guy got very upset about where I parked and then demanded I move the car from the lot to to a street spot 20 feet away and berated me for my parallel parking skills non stop until I got out of the car.…

Agreed. That’s the fucking worst thing anyone can say (after ‘what did she do to make him mad?’ which I’ve heard a lot from decent, caring, intelligent people, believe it or not.) I used to do a lot of work with female survivors of domestic abuse and severe physical violence. There should be ‘emotional education’ in…

There needs to be more education on it period. A lot of people still victim blame and that “Why didn’t she just leave?” is still tossed around.