The same IOC that let sexual predators run amuck...that IOC is trustworthy?

In a Monday press conference, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams confirmed to reporters that the IOC keeps in touch with Peng, but said he doesn’t think the situation is “for us to be able to to judge, in one way, just as it’s not for you to judge either.”

I know someone is going to call me an ableist a-hole so I’m just going to front -load the criticism by recognizing it. I’m going to come out and say what a lot of us are thinking: this WHOLE situation is weird and I don’t think it’s psychologically healthy for some people especially in an age of pandemic-induced dimini…

Caroline Sinder, an artificial intelligence and abuse expert and co-founder of the Convocation Design + Research agency, says allowing for consensual, sexual expression with bots on apps like Replika could actually help users who may be “trying to explore their sexuality in a safe way,”

So, you guys who know me will know I’m not trolling or anything here; this is an honest concern about something I maybe don’t understand.

I haven’t logged onto The Root in a few weeks, with most of the best writers.... ummmmm..... gone. And then I finally do and THIS IS WHAT I READ????

Hold up. Is he wearing Birkenstocks? 

I’m such a pleb that I wash my hands after I wash my hands, because I touched my own filthy commoner hands.

What, you can’t fall back on doing architecture for a boutique firm in Europe if your Wall Street banking and having sex for cash options fall through?

Oh, the cackling glee with which he so crassly speaks to her! Finally free of the societal chains of propriety that bind him from just wilding on every woman, here’s one he can set his spirits free with cuz SHE’S not part of society! She sings songs about sex!

Because said old men (along, frankly, with most guys I know) think they need to hedge their bets about that one sorta-drunk girl they had sex with that one time...partly out of fear of charges, partly to preserve their own self-image. This mentality drives me nuts, because it’s basically saying that the MASSIVE…

Transcript of an actual conversation with my mother in 2021.

Why are old men still hanging on to the “Well, you dressed a certain way/acted a certain way...so you deserved it” paradigm?

That was my immediate thought too.  He sees himself in what this kid did, and doesn’t want to consider that his own past behavior was criminal and would be viewed as criminal today.  

So apparently it got even weirder as after the media storm hit, the judge threw the lead trial attorney for the county’s State’s attorney out his courtroom because his wife has seen that the attorney had liked some of the tweets critical of the judge. Because of that he didn’t feel like he could be fair towards the…

I actually went and read through the whole transcript. At no point does the judge even mention how difficult this must be to the victim or express sympathy towards her. There are mentions about 16-years old having access to alcohol and all that, because of course this douche would find that at the heart of it as any…

The judge threw out a lawyer today for liking social media posts that took issue with this decision. This was on a totally unrelated court case too. What a joke.

I hate mandatory minimums. I hate the cultural focus on prison as the only solution for crime and criminals.

5 gets ya 10 that Your Honor here has a similar story in his past.