Ah, I needed this

It kills me that rape culture and a wider issue of misogyny not only leads to these events, but then prevents or hinders men like these bikers to appropriately express their feelings, too (i.e. “men don’t cry!). Sexism hurts everyone.

YAY!

There’s really no reason to argue with this person, but all the same wow I’m so sorry that you’ve had these experiences. People can be such shitbags

I’m not sure if you just didn’t read this article, or you really are this out of touch in general - regardless, your responses to everyone in this thread make you easy to dismiss. So that’s what I’m doing.

It is a racial issue. White men, especially well-to-do white men like this idiot, are constantly getting slaps on the wrist instead of real punishments. Black men are treated differently not only in the courtroom, but in the media (his mugshot would have been immediately released, plastered everywhere online, his…

I can see how you can just be like “yeah this is a bird, it’s a pretty tatttoo, right?”

I really want this to be a show now

Because it is

And that Real Actual Rapists’ friends would all come forward like “man, this guy is a dirt bag, I don’t even know why I hang out with him- but he never smiles, hates food, has no talent, and his family certainly isn’t respectable!”

very true

My sister made a good point, that the fact that he only digitally penetrated her is a sign that he wasn’t ~all that drunk~ because, had he not been tackled by those fantastic bikers, he would have had more of a chance of getting away scot-free. his brain was clearly working enough to say “semen is evidence, maybe her…

I thought I had run out of anger to feel at this case, BUT NOPE - HERE WE GO

This reminds me -

He’s allowed to wear a hat at all in this school???

First of all, how dare you TV Land??

good post, good post

The title + picture had me like “yep me too, girl” ... out loud, at my desk at work

I agree with you on this - there are so few movies about disabled people that we expect each film with a disabled person to be basically the spokesperson for a huge group, and that’s always a dangerous and close-minded way of viewing/handling things

*big internet hug* (also, I’m v new to commenting on jezebel, but not new to reading and jsyk I see you around here a lot and appreciate your comments - I keep telling myself to say that to people more often but I’m an awkward weirdo so YEAH)