I don’t have anymore information than the general public, but these accusations just seem absolutely absurd and cartoonish. They want to sell us the idea that Randy regularly hosts “Pedophile parties” and that the one person that can stop him is the person who, by absolute coincidence, stands to profit $3 Million from…

And a lot of that is for the most pettiest fucking reasoning: I LIKE ANIME THEREFORE YOU CAN’T SAY MEAN THINGS ABOUT JAPAAAAN!

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My pleasure. For my part, I appreciate your response to my initial criticism of your post elsewhere in here, which I can’t find now because Kinja sucks and keeps hanging while loading the page.

Yet you keep saying “COPS will assume the victim is lying.”

A detective will perform any investigation that is required prior to an arrest; an officer responds to a complaint, makes a determination about sufficient cause, and will either make an arrest on the spot—or not. There is no presumption about veracity at that…

Except they really, really won’t. Both of my parents are—or were, before they retired—police officers. Dad was an officer in the MPs for twenty odd years.

They act on reports. If there is sufficient cause to make an arrest, they make an arrest—and sufficient cause is a significantly lower legal bar than the “reasonable…

Brother bear, you said, “Anything that can’t be verified to a specific legal threshold is inherently false.”

The definitions provided were to make very clear that an accusation that has not met the burden of proof for conviction is not “inherently false,” thus the differentiation between acquittal (meaning “hey, this…

Lolno.

Japan, more so than other places in the world, has people rushing to it’s defense saying that it’s a different culture and we should respect the difference. Other places we in western society criticize and expect them to change, but not Japan, the sexualizing of youth and victim shaming is something that should be…

Coming from a law enforcement family, that’s at least partially incorrect.

A person has the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. The same is not true for interactions with the police; if someone reports a crime, the police investigate—and if there is sufficient cause (which is a much lower…

Thank you for this. In all seriousness, it’s deeply appreciated.

Also:

“Rape culture” is badly misnamed, but the concept it’s trying to explain does exist. It would be better to name it “objectification and gender-based judgment culture,” but I guess the marketing department wouldn’t like the clumsiness of that phrasing.

It is possible to scrutinize a claim without implying that the assault was the victim’s fault.

This should have been your default assumption going in.

Victim shaming is part and parcel of rape culture, “ya goof.” The intimation of “what was she wearing/was she drunk/she was probably flirting” is directly associated with saying women “deserve” assault.

It is that idea that women do things to “provoke” assailants (physical in this particular case, but sexual in many,…

Oh, Japan. Never change from your severely misogynistic and rape apologist ways. You know, for conveniently brushing their severe molestation issues of young girls on trains (over 3 in 4 women are molested by age 12!), or their laughably bad take on women’s rights!

Japan, more so than other places in the world, has people rushing to it’s defense saying that it’s a different culture and we should respect the difference. Other places we in western society criticize and expect them to change, but not Japan, the sexualizing of youth and victim shaming is something that should be…

I logged in after a lengthy absence to star your comment and write this reply. 100% agree.

Seriously, here part of me always hoped that the anime trope of women apologizing for ‘causing trouble’ because of things that were done to them or were otherwise out of their control was just a sickening trope. It turns my stomach to see it happen in real life.

It's not just Japan. It's all over the world. 

Fucking Japan and it’s misogynistic rape apologist culture.