This guy once again reminds me of why I didn’t tell anyone I was raped when I was 13. Because I went to an empty classroom with my boyfriend to make out with him, I must have asked for him to force me to give him a blowjob, right?

So what we’ve learned here is that this juror is ignorant about sexual assault, apparently didn’t actually listen to the evidence, had already made up his mind before entering the courtroom, and has watched enough episodes of Columbo to learn the phrase ‘smoking gun’. Go figure.

So we know at least one juror thinks rape is okay.

The stupidity and horribleness of men and how they talk about sexual assault—because of course a bare midriff means “drug me and fuck me any time you want”—makes me sick. What the fuck is a “smoking gun” in a rape case? Ugh. Ugh. Aaaaaarrrrgggh

No smoking gun, except you know, Cosby in deposition admitting to using drugs to bed women.

I look forward to being dangerously tempting when I am 81. What a fucked up asshat.

Haredi men expect to be treated in deference no matter by whom, even if they’re dealing with the secular world which they are told to actively reject at all terms. It doesn’t matter that this rejection is a one way street, we’re supposed to swoon in deference.

Because the men refuse to move, and if they’re not accommodated, they refuse to sit so the flight can’t take off. Controlling and humiliating women is the entire point of the exercise, and women aren’t controlled and humiliated if the man quietly moves to an “acceptable” seat.

Yea, they “ask” people to move the same way United “asked” that guy to volunteer.

Here’s a complicated question: I live in NYC where there is a large (I believe, the largest outside of Israel ) ultra-orthodox community— and I find myself often enraged by their behavior. But it’s difficult to get into a substantive conversation about that without being accused of anti-Semitism. Now, lemme be very…

My first instinct is if you have trouble sitting next to a woman it’s not the 81 year old woman who has to move, it’s you. Even if the woman isn’t 81, you’re the one who still has to move.

Seriously! That’s all I was thinking while reading this. If someone has a problem with another passenger and unless that passenger is dangerous then the person with the “problem” should be moved. They also should have moved her to first class, not asking a women who uses a walking stick and was previously sitting in…

Feel free to deal with any complaints about me by moving me to first class.

I’m confused about why the woman was asked to move. I say this as a former airline customer service manager. When a passenger complains about a seatmate, and they don’t have a health or safety-oriented reason for doing so, THEY are moved. If they don’t want to move, they can tough it out or they can take another…

They used to be able to “ask” just like all those other airlines have “asked” passengers to take a different flight, or change their pants, or all that other nonsense that’s been going on lately.

If they’re that afraid of cooties, perhaps they should purchase two plane tickets.

He conceded I was right

Hey, how about HE can move if he doesn’t want to sit there? For fuck’s sake.

So let me get this straight, the man, who had the problem, didn’t ask to move seats, he instead asked the elderly woman be moved? What sort of new ass hattery is this?

I suppose “The law prevents me from doing so” would be more diplomatic than “fuck no, you fanatical asshole.”