From how it’s described, it sounds like the equivalent of New York’s ACD (adjournment in contemplation of dismissal). Stay out of trouble —> case gets dismissed.

Officials for the Commission argue that health decisions should be left to women politicians, not to bartenders.

And again- she didn’t incite people to go after this guy.

So, to call back to another story on this site about what constitutes a bully, is Schumer the bully here? By the power-dynamic definition discussed there, Schumer was definitely the bully, because she used her power not only to shame this guy, but to send hordes of fans after him in attack mode.

Amy Schumer’s a well-documented piece of shit, so it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if she distorted the truth in this instance.

I AM, in fact, an irritable dad with a law degree, Samer. How did you DO that?

At the end of the day, the premise of this piece was the same as almost all Gawker thoughts on similar subjects: it’s only wrong if we like the person being attacked. Since Beyonce is Beyonce, anyone who crossed her deserves whatever internet wrath they get. Don’t slut shame unless it’s Rachel Roy. Rape gifs are…

“Bullying” describes a situation in which powerful people intimidate a less powerful person about something that the person in question cannot control.

Yeah, I feel like this is a strange hill to die on regarding what is and isn’t bullying.

Did you really just write a whole thinkpiece about “bullying” so that you could dismiss Rachel Roy on a technicality and suggest she was asking for it? That’s what I’m getting.

“particularly not in this case, as you cannot be bullied by someone less powerful than you.” - you’re telling me Beyonce is not more powerful than rachel roy, a person i never heard of before. Beyonce is the most powerful person in music/entertainment and has hordes of followers , i don’t know if you heard of…

When everything is wrong, nothing is wrong?

I think death threats and coming after your children counts as at least bullying. Roy may not be a good or smart person but no one deserves that. I guess we need a new word, if bullying and abuse won't do?

Oklahoma, if it gave a shit about women, would have sat down and gone over their rape laws a long time ago. Rape of an unconscious person isn’t like some new technology that they haven’t caught up with yet. They are more concerned with the “rights” of embryos to work about actual human women.

Where did the original comment imply that it was the court’s fault? It seems perfectly neutral on the question to me. It said that it wouldn’t be considered “forced” and, guess what! It wouldn’t be.

This. This is why I do the work I do (as a labor lawyer). It can be frustrating as hell but when the worker prevails, it is all worth it.

Thank you for writing this article. Not only do the wealthy and powerful get to break the rules, but a lot of us get to stay inside a safe perspective bubble where the most pressing crises are student loans, hookup culture, millennial philosophizing, etc. Real problems, sure, but made more dire because we don’t often…

Before some assholes come in here and mansplain/whitesplain all over this, I just want to say I loved this essay.

This was an incredible article. These are the things I return to this website for, thank you