If they hadn’t shown up the victim would likely have been left outside all night in the cold behind a dumpster. I seriously doubt Turner was planning to take her to safety once he was done. Who knows what would have happened to her.

Its rape if the woman is attacked in a dark parking lot but not if she’s dragged behind a dumpster? So “real rape” is somehow location specific? Leslie is clearly grasping at straws with this.

One of the Steubenville rapists was black and they got a huge amount of sympathy and concern about the damage done to their promising futures from the media. Black athletes accused of rape usually get sympathy. This is more likely class privilege. We generally don’t think of poor or working class people as having…

It seems the more harshly you punish kids the worse they behave. When I was a kid, I used to love doing bad stuff behind my Mom’s back. It was like giving her the middle finger. My eldest brother got the harshest punishments and he still talks about it almost every time I see him. He’s currently drinking himself into…

The NRA absolutely bears some responsibility. They highlight possible benefits of owning a gun but never the dangers. Most people who buy guns think of protecting themselves or their families. Many don’t consider that they could be used by a family member to commit suicide, in an accidental shooting or in a moment of…

Making people aware will work if it’s presented it in the right way. If people mistakenly believe that guns protect more than they harm, then it’s going to be difficult to solve this problem. Celebrities wearing orange won’t help. But perhaps celebrities using their platforms to highlight the dangers of owning a gun…

Many people think 12,000 gun homicides per year out of 300 million people isn’t that big of a deal. Maybe even adding in the 20,000 gun suicides and 85,000 gun injuries isn’t enough for them to think it’s a problem. The fraudulent statistic that 1 million people use guns to protect themselves every year makes it seem…

I wouldn’t so far as to call CIO child abuse but I also have a family history of mental illness and I do fear that it could damage some children. My concern would be that it’s short term gain but long term pain.

This is a TED talk from a woman who explains why she married her abuser.

The time goes from 3:11 - 3:12. The number of messages would stay at 60 unless she happened to get a new message from Stephen. And she may have taken screenshots that day to document what was going on. It’s not unusual for abuse victims to document the abuse. She may have left the messages undeleted at the time but if…

Knowing how to use make up to create fake injuries also requires training though. It really isn’t likely that she knows how to do either of those things well enough to deceive a judge. It’s a possibility sure but it’s highly unlikely.

Photoshop isn’t easy to use. Celebrities may be paying to have their pictures manipulated. But if you’re going to fake abuse, paying someone to do it would be a really bad idea.

White people are criticized or mocked when they give their kids dumb names as well.

Creating fake injuries using make up and Photoshop would require a certain level of expertise. I seriously doubt Amber Heard has the level of training that would be needed to create realistic looking injuries.

Her new audience either thinks she’s lying about the domestic abuse, or she deserved it.

Well why are gun deaths ever news then? Lots of people are killed and injured by guns every single day.

She probably thinks the good guy (the victim) with a gun should stop the bad guy (the abuser) with a gun.

That’s fine. What I have an issue with is how excited some in the media seem to be about the prospect of a false allegation and how TMZ especially is misrepresenting facts to make it seem like that’s what’s happening. A high profile false allegation will be very damaging so the media should show some sensitivity if…

I’m not sure how you got that from what I said. My feeling is the media needs to act responsibly and make clear that false reporting is the exception not the rule.

I heard about it for the first time today and was surprised it hadn’t gotten enough coverage for me to notice it. His defense was apparently that he just meant to shoot her in the leg as if that was somehow ok.