I’m really sorry that happened to you. And I’m sorry about the potentially triggering effects of being exposed to repeated comments questioning the veracity of survivors’ trauma. 

Having said that, I can’t really see how people can excuse what seems to be a lie from an accuser. I can understand a victim embellishing a story. I can even understand PTSD messing up details, but this seems to be a big enough discrepancy to require some clarification other than “the abuse went on for 3 years longer…

What the fuck is this? You’re asking child sexual abuse survivors for more receipts? Holy hell, this is not a good look. “Anecdata” from one or two people who swear they remember the dates of their OWN abuse does not erase the experiences of survivors who cannot recall dates and times with the kind of accuracy you’re…

I got locked up and raped in my mid-teens. For a long time I thought it was when I was fifteen, but then it seemed like I must have been sixteen, for a while. Now I’m back to fifteen, because (40+ years on) I remembered seeing a movie within a few months of the event, and google let me know what year the film was…

All of this is irrelevant. The exact dates are not something that would stick in a kid’s (or even adult’s) mind. It’s the repeated abuse that is important. If he alleged only one incident and the details were questionable, that’s one thing. But these were multiple occurrences involving several children over many…

Rephrasing your argument:

TIL #1: abuse victims are supposed to have an eidetic memory and bullet journal their trauma, lest their credibility be torn apart.

Again, this all happened a long time ago, and as multiple Ph. FUCKING Ds noted, demanding perfect recall on exact timing of everything from trauma victims isn’t reasonable.

Not to say that this isn’t a pretty bad mess up on the part of the director, but as stated memory is bad. It absolutely astonishes me that people are expected to call up things and give specific years for when they happened and if they get it wrong then everything they’ve said is therefore wrong or lies. The idea…

There’s an additional quote from Reed that’s probably important to note here:

She then begins chanting “Fake ass news! Fake ass news.” She points into the camera and says “Y’all are fake!”

“She tearfully described how she choked and gagged as Fairfax held her by the neck so she couldn’t get away.”

Yeah, it galls me when people attempt to equate being accused to being lynched. That’s flat out disrespectful and manipulative. This BS started with Uncle Clarence claiming he was a victim of a “high tech lynching” during his confirmation hearings.

Fifteen years ago, I had a co-worker who had been in a fraternity in college. I asked him what he thought about the process of pledging and hazing, and whether it was really necessary to be absolutely inhuman to people who were trying to be a part of your organization. He said that hazing made it feel like everyone…

Member of Omega Psi Phi since 1992. 3rd GenerationThis shit is tired. I have two sons and I wouldn’t want them to join my organization. Words I never thought I’d type. You can’t scream “Black Lives Matter” while contributing to the genocide of our own.

I have issues with Cardi (as a fellow Afro American I don’t think she should be using the n word so casually and she has said some problematic shit about black women and gay / trans folk in the past) but yea, comparing to R Kelly and Cosby is a stretch.

Well said, Dr. King!

Anytime someone tells me that Obama divided the country, I agree with them. He divided it into the white supremacist vs everybody else, as it should always be.

All the money in the world will never be able to explain this shambolic decision.

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