I've been on the Martin/Brown/Garner/Rice team all along; but this was tragic and wrong. Those two cops were innocent men, murdered in cold blood.

I consider myself pretty geeky (had an original D&D set, the blue box with the dragon and the slips of paper "dice", I did...) but I wash, dammit!

Well, to be fair, they don't take rape as seriously as they do a clumsy LOTR reference. Got to have your priorities, you know?

That could have been coincidence. A lot of these fellows follow Anna M. around just to bleat at her, regardless of the topic.

And Lo, the squeals of indignation were heard from hither and yon, from the darkest corners of 4chan; to the deepest, dankest of the subreddits. Loins were girded, as yet unwashed, and powerful links to Reason, Breitbart, and The Heritage Foundation were unsheathed. The Dark Prince had cast down the gauntlet, and,…

It's likely we had different experiences in High School, since you want to get all nostalgic. And I'll confess that I am glad it's over. Personally, I wouldn't think having a varsity letter in Date Rape would be something you'd want to brag about, but hell... wear your laurels proudly, I guess.

Oh, no, not at all....I think Erdely was very irresponsible, and indeed, caused damage to an important cause. The fact that guys like you now use it as an excuse to follow Anna Merlan around and bleat about false accusations (which do exist, and are awful, just not as prolific as you like to think) is just an…

I figure we have a few minutes before the Fedora Avengers show up; I don't think their Google Alerts for "rape" + "Anna Merlan" are that fast.

So we can assume you've already downloaded your copy?

There's a difference between being ravished and being raped.

Oh, no... you misunderstand. You think I'm a woman, who hates men.

God, I hate first-year English Majors. You can smell the pretension.

A humorless, priggish, misogynistic, self-important contrarian.

That was a devastating counter-argument to an argument no one actually made.

If the waiter is being a snide misogynistic asshat, and the customer calls him out on it, and you wail, "She's being rude!"....one might suspect so.

Yeah, I can see how a right-wing shill like Robby (I like how he slipped in "unbelievable") would piss her off.

Which journalist was that? I'm not doubting, just trying to find it in the archived stories.

Most of the women I've known (beyond a nodding acquaintance) have been the victim of something that easily fits the legal definition of sexual assault. I'm not even talking about so-called "grey areas". And by most, I mean, more have been a victim than have not. I don't see the need to break it down any further…

Bingo. If we men have to accept other definitions of rape and sexual assault besides the "man with a stocking mask and a knife", we have to examine our own behaviors, perceptions, and actions. Even a self-professed Nice Guy might have to look at his own past (especially if he was a "normal, red-blooded, American…

Wow, false assumptions, defense of the indefensible, and self-pitying MRA butt-hurt, in one fairly concise sentence.