Maybe that’s a joke Jonah shouldn’t have to take.

She wasn’t his “adopted step daughter.” It’s amazing that for all the talk that happens about his relationship with Soon-Yi, no one seems to really give a flying fuck about her voice or how she feels or really ever bothered to even act intrested in her view. You know, the view of the actual woman in question. Everyone…

Yep. “I don’t know if this helps you to like me again, but I have met women who I have never raped or abused. QED. Empowerful.”

There’s nothing wrong with saying she’s fat/overweight. I don’t think the OP meant it as a value judgment.

This is a visibly overweight woman holding up teeny tiny clothing to her body. It’s like a holding a chihuahua up to a great dane and being like “it looks small!!” This experiment may have been more meaningful had an average sized woman taken her place.

She's also a rape apologist.

Y’all keep typing what you wish Parker had said and are ignoring the fact that he still tried to rope two other dudes into raping this girl. No statement absolves that. Not even the most boneheaded understanding of consent means “okay my friends get to fuck you too”

Thank you so, so, so, so much for this. There are way too many commenters on here who are like, “Well it WAS 1999 and maybe he didn’t know. . . .” As a victim of a similar type of rape (in 2003! When nobody knew better than to take turns having sex with a passed out woman, apparently), I find this is offensive—mostly…

I am a black woman, but FUCK NATE PARKER and all rapists like him. He would not expect others to overlook it if a white racist man raped him and then made a wonderful movie about Malcolm X. If he had shown one iota of compassion for this woman — ah fuck it I would still hate his guts.

I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity to read the transcripts from the case released by Deadline, but I’d urge you to do so. I too thought that the situation may have been one like you describe above, but...this wasn’t a close call. There were multiple witnesses to the rape. Multiple witnesses who saw the victim…

This. Rapists can be intelligent and successful, too. After everything Jezebel has stood for, it’s sad to read a post about a rapist with such apologetic undertones.

It’s about empathy. I got blackout drunk in college and had an anxiety attack because I was worried I’d tried to force myself on a girl. I didn’t, and I didn’t even behave that badly, but that fear was very, very real.

Parker wasn’t convicted solely because he’d had consensual sex with the victim the day before. His friend was convicted of rape and received a 6 month sentence. If it hadn’t been for the previous consensual encounter, Parker would have been convicted as well. So people can decide that someone should be held…

Don't consume art made by rapists. Point blank, no exceptions.

“I have women I love in my life” is the accused rapist’s “I have a lot of black friends.” I immediately question the motives and honesty of anyone who leads with that in the discussion of a rape case.

Jezebel floated the idea of discussing the charges when the trailer was released in April, and didn’t.

What I find grossly hypocritical here is the softly-softly approach in this piece, discussing at length whether and how the rape charge should be factored into how the media approaches Parker, whereas when it comes to, for example, Woody Allen, it’s not just him but anyone who even goes near him (Blake Lively, Kristen…

“Parker is in a precarious position now, forced to explain the charge while promoting a project whose subject matter is unrelated.”

At best, Parker is an asshole who took advantage of a girl in the most misogynistic and disturbing way. We all know guys like this, fuck him.

Please tell me the part where he said “persecute men” is a typo and want meant to say prosecute.