Why is this worth reporting? Following the dress code of an event you're attending is basic good manners. It doesn't matter if you're the guest of honour or you work there. A waiter at a black tie event won't serve champagne in a hoodie. It wouldn't even occurr to me, if I were a journalist, to cover a formal event in…

If trying to break the internet isn't aggressive, I don't know what is.'

Yep - those men weren't just invading Perry's privacy, they were sexually harassing her. Totally disgusting.

Good for Katy Perry. I know people are going to criticize her and say, "Well if you don't want to deal with paparazzi then you shouldn't have become a pop star!" Just because someone is rich and famous doesn't mean they're not entitled to privacy and it doesn't give these leeches the right to go overboard.

For years, I was part of the sexual assault prevention program for Oklahoma, and let's just say that there are certain high schools that we will always remember because of their refusal to allow PRE (Rape Prevention Education) program teams to conduct workshops with their students. Inevitably, we eventually see those…

This is a solid point.

The thing that comes through loudest here is the complete lack of understanding of sex and consent among the teens at Norman High. That is too often the subtext to a lot of these terrible rape stories. We have a general population with a very shaky notion of what real consent is. It makes you wonder where that…

"I said no. I told him didn't want to do it and it hurt and all that stuff. You know how that goes."

Lawyer here. Yes, you're correct if Oklahoma is a one party state. The boy recording committed no crime and if he was not acting on behalf of law enforcement, it's not subject to the exclusionary rule (evidence obtained illegally by law enforcement cannot be used at trial).

Huh? It wasn't recorded by a police officer and Oklahoma is a one-party consent state, meaning it was recorded legally because one person in the conversation had knowledge the recording was being made. Lawyers jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you're correct.

I see this coming up a lot in the comments, but let's not forget the person talking is 14.

"It did not look like she was raped," says Amber. "It looked like she was screaming. If I wouldn't have known her side, then you never would've known."

Things were bearable for about a week, she says, and then "I messed up again. This time it was my fault." A group of boys came over to her house, and she performed oral sex on one. Another videotaped her without her knowledge, she says. "He showed the kids. Passed it around school. I was so, so embarrassed."

This story is nightmarish. I can't even form a coherent response — other than society needs a experience a paradigm shift before rape can be dealt with in the right way, in a fair way. People at every level (except the victims' parents and the knitting circle) are failing these girls. Administrators, teachers,…

I want to find one, just one positive in this story, so good on the kid who recorded that drunk fucking scumbag. He should go into police work or something. You can hear him forcibly questioning "Brian," without cajoling him, and successfully getting a confession. Good on you kid. A+ job for an amateur.

Reporter: "It's kinda hard to wrap my head around at least, you were talking about a mob attacking a girl."

I just want to give them all hugs.

Reaching for the positive in this story: ROCK ON, OKLAHOMA KNITTING FEMINISTS.