This is much more true. There are a lot of guys who don’t even realize how they’ll react to having women in positions of legitimate power over them because, at least as adults, it never happened. They’re pro-equality without grasping what that actually means.

Well, when you’re dealing with people who need this explained, you’re dealing largely with guys for whom the idea of getting someone home and choosing not to fuck her is akin to not telling a lady how nice her ass looks in those pants. It just isn’t done.

This all day. If guys are all, “She gets naked and then shuts it down? WTF is that,” it’s pretty easy to see how they might be confused/miffed about it. And they have the right to be upset, just not the right to take it out on her.

That’s pretty much the perspective I was coming from, which is why I didn’t think it would be a huge deal. But when you realize you’re talking about a group of people who have repeatedly been told (among other things) that they’re bad because they’re not “normal”, it makes more sense why they might have a negative…

HEY STOP NORMAL-SHAMING

I don’t understand the Warren hate either. He likes Max, he awkwardly asks her out, he tries to help. That’s potentially at least half the guys in any high school. You get to choose how she reacts to it, so what’s the issue with his character?

Ok. I do understand the potential for what this could do to someone, but right now there’s so much pushback in any instance where evidence of guilt is not overwhelming that someone who is genuinely innocent would have to suffer the worst wrong-place-wrong-time situation in history to have that happen when they’ve done…

I wonder if Tyson would get such love if he hadn’t been convicted. Then the accusation would still be hanging over him. O.J. was effectively convicted on every level except in a criminal courtroom, so that makes sense.

From your post, to which I replied:

Eh... maybe I’m misreading, but it sounds like he got outed as the culprit by others, so he wound up in a position of having the finger pointed at him anyway. I don’t think we can use the fact she didn’t name him and he’s still defending himself as a sign of guilt.

Is his life actually ruined? This is what makes me /facedesk about these situations, where people react by talking about how screwed the guy is- just how frequently is someone’s life/career actually put in jeopardy by allegations that wind up having little or no evidence to support them? It’s still far more common for…

He’s staring through the crotch of her pants in that screengrab. Clear evidence.

A mechanical pencil. I can’t even. I’ve never had a problem evening before, but at this point, I can’t. I can’t even.

Knocking Obama for not criticizing Saudi Arabia isn’t really fair because it implies other presidents have done so. Or congresscritters, for that matter. Nobody says shit about any of this.

I will preface this by saying I was a virgin during both of these incidents

I said there was one farther up who no doubt wins. I’m doubting now.

Tell, tell, tell

Oh god. I imagine this is what that felt like:

YES. I’ve been trying to find something to replace “walk of shame” for years, and it was sitting right there the whole time.

I concur with the others about your writing. Just this line: