Despite what you might prefer, one of those persons is a real person who was demonized unfairly by an incredibly flawed story in a national publication. The second person is fictionalized situation that you state is worse if it exists. This once again goes to what I was talking about. The damage to some cause or…

“Yeah, it’s truly awful. The worst part about it is how much it distracts from the very real problem of rape on campus, and gives fuel to the narrative that accusers are commonly lying about being raped.”

I’m pretty sure that the worst part of defaming someone in print as being callously indifferent to rape is the…

There are not many people in this world whom I would less like to be than Sabrina Rubin Erdely. She made her bed, but ouch, the public career humiliation, now complete with monetary damages, that will never go away.

Yeah, and it wasn’t a failure to confront “the rapists”, if was a failure to make sure the people accused of rape even existed.

Why is it disgusting? I would not mind if he came to my HBCU. I support his right to speak and if my campus said we would host any candidate who got 5% or more, then we would honor our word. Even if it is person we do not like or have the same views.

So the next time someone walks thru my female avatar, I’ll just shout rape/sexual harassment. Gotcha.

What mental illness does azealia banks have besides being a huge asshole?

Are you serious? Did you know that people thought there were female Navy Seals after GI Jane? That people think the Scarlet Letter is a movie starring Demi Moore and the book was written after the movie. What fraction of people do you think were aware of the Titanic sinking in 1912 before the 1997 movie came out?

I don’t understand this line of thought. Haven’t you spoken to many many people who don’t want to admit slavery happened or who thought it wasn’t so bad. Like “these were just some fellas me and my family fed, clothed and housed in exchange for a few chores”.

I didn’t care much for the joke, but I agree. It’s as if half of the roles he’s taken aren’t centered around the exact premise of that joke.

Can’t help but feel the response to this “joke” would be less positive had the genders been reversed.

OK, but how much would Jez be freaking out if the roles and genders had been reversed?

When I saw both the shooter and victim were female, I thought it was a failed relationship between the two girls. Equality means women can abuse and kill their domestic partners with the ease and frequency that men do, so this is progress? Nah, it was probably over a boy, out lesbian teens in Texas are too busy being…

I like how one girl shoots another girl and you still find a way to blame boys for it.... as if that even matters at this point.

Might have been over a girl...

I just feel like he has a platform that most don’t

Yea I kinda doubt you are “foremost a civil rights activist” if you're trying to downplay the discrimination LGBT folk have dealt with in this country.

What in the world does “I am a foremost civil rights activist” mean?

The first thing civil rights activists don't do is compare atrocities among the oppressed.

While you are correct about the song, I think many people just don’t understand or listen to the actual words. Add in the way that pieces of the song are used for commercials and quasi-propaganda and it’s easy to see why many don’t understand that it was actually a “calling out” of the hipocrsy in the US after…