There’s more to it than just, “here’s a patch!”

If the GOP has taught us anything, it is that we should be resolute in our desires and not settle for less than a total victory.

When you reach the social point where you’re mayor of NYC, retaining that power becomes more important than helping people.

I’ll admit that I have enough familiarity with consensual-non-consent kink to consider that an exhibitionist into deep mindset-play could have done this all with explicit permission.

Yeah. I didn’t even know what Yeti was until a moment ago. Confusing.

I suppose that is part of the issue with the article. It raises more questions and doesn’t have any context. I had a lot of trouble figuring out what was going on since there’s no link or primary document to work off of (which does exist).

There’s so little context here, but I thought that this was someone who (they mention no timestamps) was begging someone to call PD to stop it as it was happening. As in, this was a misguided attempt to stop the rape and we all know why bystanders can get “frozen”.

This is our short memory. We forget that even a scant ten years ago being really into Star Wars still put you into a sort of nerd-othering category that often wasn’t that fun. Social pressures before that were a double-whammy for women: first being the gender assumptions of the time period and the second being that any…

I’ve always been a sci-fi/fantasy person my whole life, but it took a very passionate ex-girlfriend to really spark my undying love for Star Wars. I’m ever grateful to her :)

I used to have a desire to be... respected is probably the right word. I had a desire for people in whatever circle I worked/lived in to know who I was and to “look up” to me in a way. I think this stuff is pretty standard self-validation.

And it sometimes feels like we’re all just waiting for someone to piss us off so we can purge some hateful unprocessed rage out of our tarry souls.

The grind in FFXIV was horrible. I played for months early on, and unless it changed you just ran the same instances on speedrun over and over to cap marks for the week then ran the raids in LFR or with guild once a week. It was so mechanical.

I was under the impression that his relationships were D/s-y to a degree by agreement.

This is behavior we often seen in patterns which is strikingly similar to other, similar cases. Some of the prime elements are fame and wealth, which many of these cases share.

The reality is that, very likely, their kinky, BDSM relationship makes it impossible to gain any sort of conviction due to how the current social and legal systems work.

And if one is willing to wade through a lot of bad writing, Literotica can be fantastic.

Vetted amateur work from enthusiastic exhibitionists. Honestly, Tumble is really fantastic as a porn-site. It’s really the only thing I can stomach anymore.

For the sake of balance, they do plenty of “femdom/malesub” work as well which is pretty much the same thing gender reversed.

This is also a concern rarely expressed with other kinds of crimes. When someone’s been arrested for theft or murder there’s rarely any hand-wringing about the damage done to the accused person’s life or career if the police got the wrong guy.

I read your post and went, “Oh! Jez actually reported on this some time ago!” Looks like it was even properly updated to take into account this revelation.