Yep, and this Midwesterner was eating squid ink pasta in the late '90s.

Not to get all "#notallmen", which is stupid, unhelpful and shifts the focus away from the serious problem of the extreme sexual objectification of women by men in basically every culture on Earth throughout history, but: no. You are far more than a thing. Just by reading your thoughtful, heartbreaking post I can tell…

Also, just gonna point out that she did *not* say that every male person in the school will now magically become a rapist. She is saying that the message the school system sent to the male students was that raping a female student was unlikely to lead to serious repercussions. Those are pretty different things.

I just want to give the girl a hug and tell her that she matters.

I feel like I need to share this because it might make everyone feel better.

I know how you feel. I was raped on my 20th birthday. I knew my family wouldn't believe me. I had no one to talk to about it. I ended up trying to kill myself a couple days later. Every time I read these articles I just want to give the girl a hug and tell her that she matters.

It is just so sad here in the UK i was placed residential facility for my mental health problems, it did not cost me anything seeing as it was under the NHS and the help i received was amazing, even if i went private i would receive the same help. I just can not understand how it would cost that much and i am so…

Mental health care is often not covered at all by insurance in the US.

Liza, your last sentence is true. It's ten times as true if you leave out the word "mental". I'm aware that I actually laughed when I read this, not at what you wrote at all, but at the awareness that, yeah, it's broken and despite a lot of people caring about its being broken, and a lot of people trying in good faith…

Because it's always the popular athlete. They were the douchbags couldn't be touched because they had to go score a touchdown blah blah blah.

I, like some of you, am a woman who has been raped. An ex boyfriend, some one who I trusted and was intimate with, one night decided that "yes" was he answer even though I said "no, stop don't". And the next day, I knew, *knew* like a fucking cosmic truth that I could talk to any cop or paper or friend and show…

Thanks for the gif. I stared at it for a few minutes while I tried to get my rage under control.

That poor girl but as a Brit i do understand how it could cost that much (even if i went private it still would not cost that much), the US mental health system is broken.

What's amazing to me is that in this case there is an actual confession and that's still not enough.

Speaking as a (gay) man, unless and until there is not only a sea-change in how we deify athletes but how we teach males beginning at age five to deal with testosterone, emotions and ego, I fear this will only increase exponentially, with eyes wide shut.

He acknowledged to law enforcement that she told him to stop several times but

That's good. You're not dead inside.

the Millers say their daughter's mental health deteriorated, landing her in a residential treatment facility and pushing them more than $50,000 in debt.

You would think it would stop shocking me by now, but somehow, it doesn't. Fucking fuck.

Among the many horribly troubling things in this story is that her family ended up $50,000 in debt for her mental health treatment.