I have the same question. Many of the victims were minors. They reported it to people who have a legal duty to report. How are these people not facing legal consequences.

As a straight cis white male, over the past few years I’ve come to find that, yep, rape culture is absolutely a thing. Nobody gives a shit, this is so much quieter than Penn State. Hell, they were dressed like they wanted it, right?

I’m hoping for some shit like the one from the Jeffrey Dahmer sentencing.

“Post-feminist”. Huh.

Not to take away from the truth and power of your comment, but that in combination with your username laid me out.

He is such a fucking self-admiring sleaze bag. I feel awful for his victims, but also incredible anger at him as a person. The way he combines hipster irony with pretend-woke “post-feminist” sexual politics (as well as money and power) to camouflage his raging misogyny and obvious egomania really makes my blood boil.

Yes, every defendant, even Nasser have a right to a lawyer, but man is Shannon Smith tough to like. She’s actually proud of being a sex offender lawyer. An excerpt from her web site advertising her services:

You’re right; there will be the language police blowback you describe. But how can people judge how far we’ve come (and have to go) without seeing how awful things were?

The movies will all be released when they figure out how to change The Weinstein Company to The Plummer Company, and have Christopher retroactively produce them

If you call the WH today 202-456-1111 the message states no one can come to the phone because the Dems shut down the government. They really think none of us can count. I’d post the MP3 - but it doesn’t seem possible.

I also wish they’d be louder about the republicans’ explicit refusal to pay the military during the shutdown — as Obama did do. They won’t even allow a vote on the exact same bill that passed unanimously in 2013. These vile fuckin cretins.

Hey, just a helpful tip for the trolls: I don’t respond to trolls, I just dismiss them. It literally takes me less than a second and it is really, really satisfying to dismiss troll comments that must have taken a 50 times longer to type than it took me to dismiss. Oh, and I stop reading them as soon as I know it is…

Why are Democrats so bad at this, it is so easy. Americans want Congress to function and just....work, and are pissed off when it doesn’t, but Democratic politicians can’t even successfully pretend to be angry.

The “coercive” part was also shoving his fingers down her throat. URGH.

Oh shut the fuck up, dude. Nobody cares about what will happen to your boner if you are legally required to define sex as something more than “I need to stick my dick into one of your orifices right now baby”

He thought she was totally into it. He thought, “I don’t want to feel forced” meant “try again in a few minutes.”

So many of us have had experiences like yours and StillCopperboom. It’s common enough that Grace probably also had similar encounters before her date with Aziz Ansari. Which may have contributed to her not leaving. It’s what a lot of women are used to a date being.

I understand what you’re saying and I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, many of the commenters on these pages would be singing a different tune if it wasn’t a well-loved liberal being accused. I remember way back when Julian Assange first ducked into the embassy I was lambasted on these very pages for saying that he…

I’ve been feeling a similar way. I, too, had a boyfriend as a teenager who pushed and pushed my boundaries until he finally coerced me into giving him oral sex. After, I felt humiliated and traumatized but that was attributed to how “crazy” I am. The next week he raped me, setting off a year of sexual and emotional…

This Aziz Ansari story has really shaken me. As some of you may remember (or maybe not, I’m certainly not that important), a month or two ago something finally clicked in my head- that I had been sexually assaulted when I was a teenager by my boyfriend at the time. We were both 16 (plus or minus a year, I can’t quite…