They were like our parents. We went to them with everything. No, I didn’t do anything about it. I didn’t know about it at the time, and I honestly was not even sure what date rape was. I supported my friend when she turned her boyfriend in for physically assaulting her and many of the students and several of the…
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As a person who has worked for many years in law enforcement in Central Texas, I am surprised there was any investigation at all, let alone two. Baylor is a law unto itself in Waco and McLennan County and is very corrupt. It is only in recent years that the McLennan County prosecutors have had the independance to…
It’s like the fundie Christians and how they’re so persecuted because they can’t be all bigoted in the name of religion. Exact same mentality. Nothing anyone is doing is actually hurting them in any way, just as no whites are being harmed here, but it’s all so “my poor feelings are being so persecuted”.
Thank you so much for posting this. It needs to be shared over, and over, and over, and over again. Especially when people ask, “why didn’t she go to the police? Why didn’t she go to the hospital?”
I would add to rabidwombat’s very accurate description that it's dehumanizing and humiliating to boot. You're asking someone who was just raped to completely disrobe in front of a stranger and allow themselves to literally be poked and prodded in the name of gathering evidence—evidence which, as we have seen, well may…
Except whites have been systematically oppressing blacks for a very long time now, so removing everything from that context is highly unproductive.
yes,anger is an emotion that everyone shares but miley is perpetuating the stereotype of the “angry black woman” by reducing nicki to nothing but a “meanie”.
You can be mad all you want, but why are you mad right now? On behalf of white people? Tone policing is a tactic that is used a lot by white people to silence people of color and especially women of color, and specifically in this instance by a white woman to invalidate the opinions of a black woman. It isn’t just…
Yeaah, no. See, you’re still tone policing there. There is a HUGE difference between the marginalized group making generalizing statements about the group in power and the reverse situation. Frankly, when it comes to how POCs should talk about white people, and what words they should use is when I sit my white ass…
Putting him away does help. It helps protect society from a criminal likely to repeatedly offend.
Do you feel the same way about pedophiles? Should they be given the benefit of the doubt?
women roll their eyes at this kind of shit because we’ve been 13, 14, 15 and remember what it was like to be completely inexperienced with men and find oneself in the unprecedented situation of stopping a makeout session in its tracks. but these people on the outside view a girl’s somewhat-participation as indicative…
Men who rape an acquaintance rape an averge of 6.3 women each. Check out David Lisak’s rape study. They do it again and again, at every opportunity.
That’s horrendous if the jurors felt that way. If I lend my car to a friend that doesn’t mean I consent to her keeping it. Should I be held accountable for my part in the vehicular theft then? Why is rape considered differently? Yup, society needs to think long and hard about how much differently they treat rape…
And regardless he’s still a damn adult, was 18 and an adult at the time of the crime, and committed fucking RAPE on a 15 year old girl.
A hospital nurse who examined the girl two days after their encounter testified that the girl had redness in her vagina that could be consistent with an assault, but could also be the result of non-sexual irritation. Considering Owen Labrie denied any sexual penetration with her at all, despite his semen being found…
You stick your dick into someone who doesn’t want it there, you teach this person that they aren’t a person. You are being abusive and dehumanizing. While it is not the same as killing and doesn’t deserve as severe a punishment, you are treating this person as they don’t matter, leaving long lasting psychological…
That’s what shocks the hell out of me. His friends said he admitted it. DNA/rape kit proves he did it. Victim says he did it. But he says he didn’t, so he must be the trustworthy party here. /s
When four people testify in direct contradiction to what Owen Labrie claimed happened, DNA evidence existed and a physical exam came back consistent with rape and he still gets acquited of all the major charges, that shows you just how seriously America takes rape. For rich, white guys that is.