That’s an excellent point. In 1932, the year the study began, there was no cure for syphilis. So, by 1947- when penicillin was recognized as a treatment for syphilis- the men who had survived until then had been infected for 15 years, and part of the horror of Tuskeegee is that they remained untreated. Here’s an…

In the Tuskegee experiments, the men were not infected by the government, they were already infected with syphilis. They were not treated for the syphilis, instead the progress of the disease was studied. Still wretchedly wrong.

Thank you for being the voice of reason. Here was an excerpt that stands out

Thank you. I’m Canadian as well and reading this post and the many of the comments is giving me an aneurysm.

Yea, this article has literal inaccuracies, like Guthrie was not in the bar, it was Reilly (they were not together) and she had tweeted her own location.

Thank you! I’m in the same boat as you (except I’m American) and was just reading through the court’s decision and it seems like both parties let things get out of hand and were being immature. I am shocked this became the huge case that it did.

No.

Show me where she calls it rape.

True but shes not calling it rape.

It’s a genuine problem, but this doesn’t seem like the strongest, clearest case to establish a precedent.

I don’t know- that’s Larry Flint’s publication, right? He’s been a long time proponent of calling out the hypocrisy of the anti-sexual-liberation christian types. He took Jerry Falwell to the supreme court, too.

Yeah, I understand the knee-jerk reaction of support for the accusers given the topic at hand, but when you start looking into this case, they come out looking as bad if not worse than Elliott does in any of his tweets

Yup. I always ask which tweet from Elliott people take issue with, and it turns out they've never read a single one. They can't even quote any of the exchanges.

Sounds like his religion/upbringing gave him a lot of self-loathing.

I love Jezebel, I’m a Canadian, and I identify as a feminist. I was wondering, have you read the 75 pages of court proceedings that are available online? I’m part way thought it and it doesn’t seem so cut and dry like this article seems to make it out to be. I think we should believe anyone when they say they have…

Oh, Paul my darling.

They even required Dana Scully to walk a step or two behind Fox Mulder so that the pair were never side-by-side on screen, which is baffling considering the strength and intelligence of Scully’s character.

Agreed. And while David Duchovny doesn’t look half bad these days, he definitely peaked about 10 years ago.

Wow. Unfuckingbelievable, except that sadly, it’s not.

love the gifs + word explanation model this post follows