I’m so proud of this survivor’s courage, and LIVID at the judge’s answer. This bullshit is exactly why few survivors ever come forward. Why would anyone want to engage with a system this fucking broken? :(

It won’t. :( Fuck this human dumpster fire.

PLUS since he got off *almost* scot free in this instance, with eyewitnesses who caught him mid-act in public, all this is going to do is make him more careful not to get caught next time. :(

Does this exist in book form? (If so, where can I get a copy?)

The Old Testament considers rape a property crime against either the father (if she’s unmarried) or the husband (if she’s married). If she’s unmarried, the rapist can marry her and pay the traditional bride price, etc. - and the father goes along with it because who else would take his “ruined” daughter now? :(

Not necessarily; Hollywood used to have female characters with more emotional depth—a lot of that got forgotten on the way to creating blockbusters.

Also wasn’t the problem of UVA not that nothing happened, but that the victim couldn’t prove anything, and RS threw her under the bus instead of admitting its own fuckups?

looks like maybe he tweeted from the west coast (I’m in Chicago and the timestamp on my screen is 12:19, so it was probably 11:19 or 10:19 if he was farther west than that).

Probably the cover illustration for the first book. They were all pretty realistic on the cover but have the same molded-plastic faces with different hair/eye color (or did 20 years ago when I was little).

My thoughts exactly.

This means, I think, that in the event of a deadly global epidemic you’ll likely both perish around the same time.

True. :(

He’s tolerable, I suppose. But not handsome enough to tempt me.

I think that’s maybe what he’s doing? I mean who on earth genuinely believes Dubya is going to help your campaign for anything?

Babs’s damning with faint praise is still the best, though.

Ironically, my dad’s argument against Syrian refugees is that the men will come over here with their multiple wives, and have huge families on the dole (pointing out that polygamy is illegal here, and that people can still have children with multiple partners regardless of marital status, didn’t change his mind).…

You are not alone; I’m still 99% sure it’s a beach photo (with the waves to the right).

I know I didn’t go to the police after my assault because there was no way to prove anything had happened, so what could I really do? I was afraid of being ridiculed and accused of wasting police time. A few days later, I was cracking jokes about it to try to make it less scary to myself, and I only reported the…

“I don’t need a man” =/= “I don’t like men” though. And isn’t choosing to be with someone because you actually LIKE them better than being with someone because society basically won’t allow you to live otherwise?

Especially since, for example, equal rights on the basis of sex is STILL not in the US Constitution. :(