Studies that show a high rate of sexual assault on campus, at the least the most recent ones, used a category like ‘unwanted sexual contact’. While admitting that that extremely broad category eliminates the ability to determine specific levels of assault within the category. And I’m sorry, forcible penetration is…

Except that Colleges really don’t have “high incidents of rape and sexual assault” when compared to non-college settings, and that’s even putting aside the conflation of rape and sexual assault which apparently could be anything from a serious, physical attack all the way to “someone touched my ass in the Student…

Oh there’s some culpability on the Crown. You don’t take a case to trial without a making sure that ‘Are we going to win’ list checked off - one of the check lists being “Are our witnesses vital to winning? And if so, are they remotely not lying to us straight up?”

Telling your rapist that you want to ‘fuck his brains out’ and then sending another, oh, 1000 messages to him doesn’t mean that you weren’t raped -but it means the rapist will never, ever be convicted in a court as long as the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt

I know right!!! Like fuck the 5th Amendment - they should have to answer for their crimes!!!

Yeah - He’s getting off. The whole ‘I sent him 300 messages and banged him like crazy’ after the ‘assault’ occurred - I just totes forgot to tell the cops about it until right before the trial = Not Guilty.