there are SO MANY people who insist they love all music *except female vocalists* and I’m like... o_O

God almighty this sentence here:

Her first one was filled with grammar mistakes which I found funny since her band’s name is good English.

I was thinking about them earlier today. One of them was so traumatized by what he witnessed that he was weeping too much to give his statement. And yet, the judge is more concerned with the rapist’s future trauma than he is by THE VICTIM’S trauma or the witnesses’ trauma, or her friends and family . . . why is he the…

They know what he did was bad, but they wouldn’t call it “rape”. As Leslie might say, rape is “a woman getting kidnapped and raped as she is walking to her car”. In Brock’s case it wasn’t “rape”, it was a girl who flirted with Brock and drank too much and Brock just did what drunk boys will do. “20 minutes of action,”…

Agreed. AND the fact that he tried to run away shows that he KNEW he was doing something wrong.

They claim that he and the victim were engaging in consensual drunk sex and that he just didn’t realize she had at some point passed out (after consenting though!) because he was just too drunk. The defense attorney was basically like “well she can’t say if she consented or not because she doesn’t remember it, so…

It’s not inexplicable, rape apologists have always had the mentality that rape can (sometimes or always) be excused or justified. What’s inexplicable is how any decent human being could ever think that way because actual decent human beings don’t.

I find it comforting to keep in mind that being excellent to each other (Carlin’s famous wisdom from Bill and Ted) is more natural than being a shitty misanthrope, because that’s learned behavior. No one is born a racist, or a sexist, people are molded that way.

“It was a juvenile lapse in judgment” appears to be the prevailing narrative.

I think we all know how this would have ended if they hadn’t shown up: it would have gone nowhere, with the victim being told she must have just regretted a drunk hook-up, and not being taken seriously at all.

What impressed me most is that she extended more humanity towards her rapist by expressing a sincere hope that he will strive to contribute to society and become a better man - than he extended to her.

I would like to see a double-bicycle symbol go viral as a reminder to stop and help our fellow human beings.

That part really made me cry.

So call a WAAAAAHmbulance for it.

I just don’t have words to describe how this hits.

But, but HIS life was ruined.

I don’t think anyone believes it didn’t happen, some just hold rather vile opinions on the importance of the assault relative to things like his swim times, appetite, or “respectable” family.

How much more evidence of his guilt do we need before his supporters accept the obvious?