The plaintiff in this case is the state, not the victim.

You can only plead the fifth when you would be at risk of criminal prosecution over what you say. You can't just use it when you don't want to testify.

Alright, let's be honest here, they are posed to get their clients found not guilty. I'm sure the lawyers frequently think their clients are disgusting human beings, but this is a legal proceeding, not something they do out of enjoyment. And I wasn't talking about this one case, I meant a sort of general attitude…

The problem is that courts have to walk a fine line between not re-traumatizing rape victims and giving criminal defendants the right to defend themselves.

Jezebel doesn't usually get legal analysis right; like most legal questions, the answer to whether that could have been asked in a civil trial is "that depends."

Question: Imagine you are the defense attorney for the accused in a rape case. There is no question that sexual contact occurred. The question to be resolved is of consent. With the victim on the stand, what do you ask? Because honestly, rape is a horrific crime, but the level of outrage I routinely see on…

Ugh, this may be the most annoying thing that Jezebel does, and it happens so much here.. There is a double standard now. There used to be a double standard. OMG IT MUST BE THE SAME DEGREE OF DOUBLE STANDARD BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS A BINARY.

Wait a minute, you're talking largely about subjective opinion, but you're assuming that you're right and they're wrong?

I think it can be cognitively exhausting for some people, especially in Times Square, so they need someplace familiar to sort of calm down.

You might get sick of the mercury...

When I eat out I frequently eat at chain restaurants. The food's usually not that great, but I can almost always get the nutritional information, because if I don't log my food I gain weight. A lot of weight. Those Italian places taste better but I have no idea whether the pasta is 500 calories or 2500.

What I really think is worth asking is whether children's activities need to be pushed by anyone? You leave kids alone to play on their own and they know how to do it; it's hardwired in.

I think most men are willing to pitch in, but it has to be a meeting of equals, not a "you do these tasks that I define and assign." It's not "help me clean this house to MY specifications," it's "alright, let's clean to the point where it's halfway between my standards and yours." Traditionally men had the…

It sounds like the letter writer has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (a little different than obsessive-compulsive disorder).

A lot of it might be that they chose these schools specifically for their strengths in non-STEM areas that they wanted to study. I mean, Wellesley doesn't even have an engineering department. And yes, most women will be the ones paying the lion share of the professional price, but sometimes that role is reversed,…

Do you confront your boss and ask them why? Specifically say, why are these people making more than me when I have better credentials and provide more value for the company?

Honestly that makes me think there is some demographic/academic quirk unexplained by the graph. The accompanying article quotes the company that compiled the information in the graphic stating that the women's only colleges produce a comparatively small number of STEM graduates, who tend to get paid more.

I don't think the discrepancy lies in the hiring/initial salary settings, which is why I think the 76 cents on the dollar statement is very misleading, because it implies a conscious or unconscious decision on the part of hiring personnel to pay someone less for a specific job because of their sex. When you correct…

The best/worst street harassment story I heard was from a cop who was telling me a guy did it to her while she was in uniform, working. Her response to him was physical, painful, and very unconstitutional, but I thought it was funny.

Might also be that the kind of guys who catcall don't want to risk getting their face punched in by the male companion.