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I definitely agree in spirit.

Yeah this totally feels like the same thing. The people from the Civil Rights Movement are thumbs-upping you. Yay, we both went to history class. This really showed me!

I got about a third of the way through that before realizing your word salad is essentially trying to hide a “yeah, you got me, you’re right” behind a ponderous wall of text and weasel words.

People who bang on about body-language and empathy are invariably the people who lack the capacity for clear communication, objectivity, and being able to view things from an alien point-of-view and have insights into other people’s behaviour

Good post, man. I appreciate that you are taking it seriously and maybe we disagree here and there but that’s a good article and you made me think.

I could just as easily ask why wouldn’t we believe Aziz when he says by all indications he got that everything was completely consensual

We weren’t there. But she was.

She is describing sending clear signals that aren’t words in a sexual context.

Hey Mike D:

Your opinion is set up on an impossible-to-achieve standard for a very clear reason.

You replied to my response to the “just being pushy” guy with support in the form of “she could be lying” (the screenshot). I am actively lumping all of you idiots together. Forgive me.

You didn’t answer my question either. Do you actually think it didn’t happen? Yes or no. We aren’t in a courtroom, so based on the facts, you’re welcome to an opinion.

Yeah, but equating being a pushy asshole with rape really demeans rape.

You’re so nice! I appreciate it, man, and seriously, likewise. I was glad I had a few other smart people like yourself in agreement yesterday, I would have really started questioning shit without it!

Likewise!

Sorry, no one is trying to defend Aziz or malign the woman.

Because there is absolutely not one reason to believe that this person is making up the detailed account of assault out of whole cloth. None. It is non-sensical to even bring it up. You don’t know that I drank coffee today when I tell you I did, but why would you respond assuring others that it is possible to lie

‘she didn’t want to have sex that night but might “next time,”’ is the opposite of a “very very clear signal” - it’s a *mixed* signal because it signals both an interest in sex at the same time as being a refusal.

It is really stunning to see them all work this out and come to these conclusions, in public, for everyone to read.

Hi Ace42.