24 women reported Deshaun Watson. Given the abysmally high percentage of victims who don’t dare report, let alone don’t dare report a rich man in a position of power compared to theirs... Yeah, “serial” doesn’t even cover this. “Habitual” or “casual” sounds more like it.

Yup, if two crooks team up, one of them is going to get one over on the other eventually. It’s only exacerbated if those two crooks happen to also be fascists.

Fair enough, I think? We may be focussing on slightly different aspects, but I’m under the impression that we are very much in agreement as to the severity of their crimes.

I would assume that apart from race, which will always play a role no matter how you look at it, the difference in sentencing with Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly can also be attributed to what else the court knew about the latter. In addition to trafficking them, R. Kelly was the one abusing the girls. He trafficked…

That is wild.

I agree with inhood212, you don’t know what levels of bravery you might discover within yourself if push ever came to shove in that way. I also agree with you: 100% should this not be something you would ever have to consider even hypothetically.

The FUCK? As if all abusive situations were not the same at their core? Of course, you’ll hear the same sh*t, over and over! I would put Johnny Depp’s lawyers and all the people testifying on his behalf in the same category as those who chose to defend Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, Dr. Luke…

Do we really need to keep celebrating rapists? Asking for a friend.

100%.

Kill that question. Kill it with fire. How hard would it be for every person who can read (which, I believe, is required of journalists) to read one qualified article on trauma and how it effects the brain?

This is poetry, my friend. Gutter poetry, but still damn art.

“My pronouns are free-ass-motherfucker and they/them, her/she.”

They’re not wrong.

Spoken like a true adult.

Truth!

Meritocracy is such a beautiful, beautiful word, isn’t it?

I only know 88 in the context of Nazism, H being the eighth letter of the alphabet, HH standing for Heil bloody Hitler. The fuck, just another example of how those driven by hatred are all birds of the same hateful feather anyway?

Meanwhile, Arpana Jinaga’s killer is still out there and all who loved her have now had this wound re-opened. I hope they join Emmanuel Fairin his lawsuits.

signers claimed the teacher had been problematic for a long time

I think it can be both of these things. A husband stepping in when his wife gets hurt is clearly protective, but his chosen method of defending her in that moment played into all the stereotypes, which makes it toxic.