I'm saying that while colleges do need better mechanisms for dealing with campus rapes, they're not the cause of it. IMO colleges shouldn't investigate or punish rapes at all, this should be handled by the police. But that's a very unpopular opinion around here. If anything, I think any steps a college takes (be it…

Key word: prosecution. Rapists belong in jail and with criminal records. They shouldn't just get expelled or suspended.

Yeah, the rapes will move off campus, probably. But at the same time, colleges aren't parents. If kids are raping other kids, it's because something went wrong with how they were brought up before they go to college. I agree colleges need to have better policies for handling rapes, but they're not responsible for…

Cancelling the event only serves to ignore and distract from the true reasons for sexual violence on campus — inadequate consent education, a lack of accountability, and rape culture. Bacchanal does not create these conditions

No argument from me there. I just think the whole appropriation outrage over the fashion industry 'borrowing' from other cultures is for the most part a bunch of nonsense. I mean, it's not like they did a 12 years a slave themed shoot starring Rihanna, or that stupid bus fashion shoot in India, or one based on the…

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Maybe that's how Rihanna likes to be portrayed? Do you ever see herself styling or presenting herself as quiet, demure, shy? That's not really her personality.

Um, Grace Jones wore all kinds of different things and wore all kinds of different styles, influenced by many different cultures: African, Asian...

Then you need to give back half of what you wear because guess what? Most clothing and styles were originally part of a different culture than the one we live in.

I'm the opposite. I'd rather look at the fur photos, they're far more interesting than the upscale-but-generic fashion catalogue look of the pictures of all three women.

genius.

You're right. I hadn't seen it from tht angle.

That's a good point, actually.

Yes, I noted that the bill includes non-verbal consent. But it still doesn't change the reality that at the end of the day, it's still one person's word against the other. And if someone is already a rapist asshole, what's to stop them from also being a liar and claiming they had consent every step of the way?

I don't know if men not understanding implied/verbal consent is the problem as much as the men who straight up don't give a fuck.

It's not necessary though. And besides, this bill recognises that consent can be non-verbal.

I think you don't understand how Darwin awards work. Or genetics for matter.

That would slow the commenting speed, and change the dynamics of the discussion and, again, amount to punishing us for the asshole behaviour of a troll.

Except that this isn't that different from the styles that Rihanna very often dresses herself in, so how come it's only offensive if it's in a magazine? Seriously, get a grip.

I think the Rihanna pictures are fucking awesome and you guys should quit trying to ruin them with your tired old cultural appropriation bullshit. The Rihanna pictures are stunning, interesting, strange, captivating and fucking awesome. Meanwhile, the pictures of Rihanna, Iman and Naomi all together that you refer to…