This is so unfortunately true.

My first reaction was “hey, we’d take this a lot more seriously if the recipient was a girl!” then I remember that I was once a girl in junior high who got groped just about daily and no one ever did anything to stop it so...I stopped talking.

Bull fucking shit. I reported boys grabbing my tits MULTIPLE TIMES to my school and they fucking got detention. So no, this is not okay but don’t act like boys don’t get away with this bullshit EVERYDAY.

Either the pinching kid has a history of bullying and her parents are unreasonable jerks and have not done anything about it OR the pinchy’s mother has gone off the fucking deep end getting a 12 year old arrested for doing a dumb thing that in the life of a 12 year old is probably one of a million things she will do…

Um, the victims offered testimony upon which they were cross-examined. The accused did not, and was not. Discussing victims’ actions after the incidents is not the same thing as asking the accused to explain his actions or convince the court that he obtained consent for these assaults. We have not heard his…

I’ve seen and really don’t get this argument. My last name has been my last name from birth. Just like it was my father’s last name from birth. Is it more “his” last name than mine because he’s a man? Or because he’s older? It’s not “my father’s name”—it’s a whole bunch of “Keyser’s” (men and women) names. Including…

My college roommate and his wife choose a random third last name and both changed theirs, showing preference to neither family. Opening up the choice to any possible combination of letters might be a bit overwhelming, but it seems they were both huge Natalie Merchant fans, so it worked out for them.

What the hell is wrong with the police? They didn’t even think to just record what was said. We write notes for my IEP meetings. Why wouldn’t the police do the same?

Toronto cops are so tone-deaf to victims of abuse. I had a friend who had her statement taped (she filed charges against an abusive ex), only to find out a week before the trial (this was about a year after her initial statement) that the Crown didn't have audio on the DVD and they didn't bother to write down anything…

I’m sure the victims thought (naively, perhaps) that the case would focus on whether or not he assaulted them, and whether or not he obtained consent.

Especially given the fact that they were very much the ones on trial, as Ghomeshi didn’t even take the stand. The case was entirely about how shitty they were as victims. They were hung out to dry.

The prosecution fucked this one up. The women should have been told all of this way before the trial. That the women are now saying that they only learned about the power of “post-incident conduct” during the trial is a complete indictment of the failure of the prosecution. The prosecutors should have been sitting…

“It’s not that I would never talk about it, but it’s that nobody cares about what I have to say about that. It’s not going to sway anybody in any direction, and if so, they’re probably young kids that should do their own research about who they want to vote for.”

I live in a european country. Don’t care about tennis at all, but I recognize the name Federer although I have no idea what he looks like (and also I would have guessed maybe race car driver if you asked me why he’s famous). I have never heard of Nadal or Djokovic, but I totally know who Venus and Serena Williams are.…

I had no idea who he was until he decided to speak about women. For our own good... I’m sure.

“Because he seems like such a good dude otherwise.”

Pretty rich to blame women’s behaviour on “hormones” when testosterone has been fucking everything up for millenia.

Their periods! OMG how do they do it??

Can we be real and tell him straight up that Venus and Serena are probably 10x more recognizable than any male tennis player? Because seriously, I know who Nadal is, but I wouldn’t know a dude tennis player on the street. I doubt many others would either.

I work in molecular biology research, and over the course of my life i feel like we’ve gotten incredibly technologically advanced, while simultaneously building a culture that is distrustful of intelligence and skeptical of science. it’s built a bizarre system where people are constantly expecting very big things,…