This is terrible and so is that cases of universities failing in their duty of care to students who have been sexually assaulted are becoming so familiar.

And people STILL say that rape culture isn’t a real thing.

In their minds, if you say Yes a lot, you always say Yes, even when you say No.

That she probably ~wanted it~ and was making everything up.

We know what that’s about. If you accuse men of rape, you are just a whore who doesn’t want to add to her numbers. Or something.

Exactly. Why would this be an issue? It’s like noting that at the time of robbery, the victim was very wealthy.

This is such an awful and sad story.
My kid was assaulted on her campus in the UK during her first year - and it was a matter for the police, not the university. The perpetrator was caught, tried, convicted and sentenced. She was offered counseling, and had visits from female police officers to support her in coping.…

they also claimed that the school failed to take into account that the accuser was “very sexually active.”

This is so incredibly sad. I can’t even imagine how that girl must have felt, or what her mother must be feeling now.

Again, why are they told to address campus police and not the regular police department?

You go ahead and put my girls Cate Blanchett and Jodie Foster up there at the top of the A List immediately! =)

Shared this story with my kid. His comments: “If they were embarrassing to her, yeah she should take all their money. If you posted a picture of me naked, I’d take all of yours. Every last drop.”

I feel like a pretty solid standard of posting pics of your kids is “would it be appropriate to post this if they were an adult?”

Dear parents: I have no desire to see your children on the shitter, in the tub, picking their nose, hands down pants, crying, being upset, or in any kind of situation in which a reasonable adult would not want a photo of themselves posted online. However, PLEASE DO post photos of your child looking serene and angelic…

I am not a parent, but a good rule of thumb:

I have been waiting for something like this to happen ever since baby photos started trickling onto my Facebook (so like 8 years). No one wants to see your kid doing weird/gross baby stuff, including AND ESPECIALLY your kid (once they’re old enough to understand embarassment and shame).

OK, I have a giant soft spot for the guy. He just seems Midwestern-nice and hardworking and not an assmunch. When I think “overrated,” I go through a pretty big list before I hit Pitt: Gosling, Affleck, Bradley Cooper (by contrast, I find Chris Cooper woefully underrated), the insufferable Jared Leto, the Scottish guy…

Don’t get me wrong. I like a lot of the characters he has played, but I also think he is extremely overrated as an actor.

Next up: a divorce! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, two beautiful B-listers who have successfully conned the world into thinking they’re A-listers (I like them both, but they are not reliable leading actors. Don’t @ me.)