Your work is wonderful and I’m grateful to GM for giving you all the freedom to be better than every other site out there. The New Yorker is lucky as hell to have you.

I wasn't really talking about Dallas PD itself so much as the reaction of Cops around the country. I don't think the reaction will be localised.

The KKK/other militia group was my first thought too. It seems like an organised anti-racism sniper team would choose a venue where they wouldn’t have to risk BLM bystanders. It feels far more Mansonesque. I hope whatever the truth is it comes out with as little damage to innocent bystanders as possible.

I worry the rage will take hold in police departments across the country and they’ll be even jumpier and more aggressive than usual. I’m in Australia so there’s literally nothing I can do for people but I’m holding every hope in my heart for your safety.

That is basically a miracle — I can imagine in that kind of chaos it would be incredibly easily just to start shooting out of sheer panic.

This is awful for the families and friends of the officers but it also makes me incredibly fearful — even more fearful than usual — for the safety of PoC once the police force starts to enact vengeance.

I rarely use this expression, but that’s unAustralian. Fair dinkum.

Exactly, people should be free to have as much or as little sex as they please.

I promise you no Australians care enough to be outraged about this. Those tweets are all jokes. There are very few things we take seriously and they’re all to do with crocodiles and skin cancer.

At least one study showed that people who engage in social media activism are more likely than others to also be generally politically active and volunteer/donate/protest/write letters. It’s not definitive but still promising.

I’ve actually heard people compare Australia to throwback America before, it’s basically a trope at this point.

The bracelets said ‘don’t grope’ so they're a visible sign of peer disapproval. I have no idea how effective they are specifically.

Sorry I read a bunch of studies about it in uni but I don’t have access to the journals anymore (since I graduated). One was a pretty famous study about frats that found that members were substantially more likely to intervene against sexual violence if they believed their frat brothers would disapprove of it.

No, because you’re just not (I presume) a misogynist and would probably intervene whether your friends were against it or not. Peer disapproval is only important where the intervener isn’t that personally outraged by violence against women. If they know their friends are they’ll intervene despite their own…

Yeah, I think it’s incredibly important for musicians to take a stand against violence in the crowd.

Peer disapproval has actually shown to be a really effective tool against sexual/gendered violence, not so much because it makes rapists see the light as because it makes less serious misogynists more likely to intervene if they witness it. When rapists/gropers are more likely to get caught they are less likely to…

I'm Aussie and get this from Americans all the time, it's confusing.

My friends always use a lone period as shorthand for ‘there are no words’, I thought that's what you were going for.

Yeah, I don’t think people understand how intense it is until they’ve experienced it. I’m terrified of getting pregnant because I’ve already had problems with hormonal imbalances. It turns you into a different person. I’d be totally fine one moment and then bawling and on the verge of suicide the next. And I had an…

From Empire Records two years earlier. She's so brave despite her dowdy plainness.