Rape/Sexual Assault Culture

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/th.../ar-AAyqdsc?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehpbigsoccer.com

No wonder nobody hires these idiots fresh out of HS, even with their shiny new AP-enhanced GPAs. Lulabel, if you want to make a statement, skip the damn event entirely, with all of your classmates, and say why you did. It's high school. Being val of your HS class is insignificant. Do you REALLY think someone's not going to go parent/bully and silence your voice?

 

It's a Yahoo! story, meaning I'm not necessarily believing a word of it, aside from the basic fact: A girl was sentenced to life at age 16 with no possibility of parole until age 51.

Even if you don't believe the extremely extenuating circumstances that the article alleges, how can we as a society pass a 35-year minimum sentence on a 16 year old?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sex-trafficking-survivor-cyntoia-brown-165200293.html

 

It's actually a NBC News story. Not that I'm saying it makes it more credible.

 

https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/airman-gets-year-in-prison-for-raping-14-year-old-runaway/

DOVER, Del. — An airman stationed at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base has pleaded guilty to raping and endangering a runaway 14-year-old girl.

WDEL-FM reports 22-year-old Zepplin Ray Taylor-McGinness was sentenced Friday to a year in prison, followed by probation.

Dover Police M. Cpl. Mark Hoffman has saidauthorities were contacted in November 2017 by the girl’s guardian who learned the girl was staying at a local apartment complex. Officers went to the complex and found the teen and then 21-year-old Taylor-McGinness.

 

Over and Over again
July 9, 2018
Kelly Conheeney

https://ckelly919.wixsite.com/website-1/single-post/2018/07/09/Over-and-Over-again

I’m a victim of sexual abuse and those feelings of self doubt, mistrust in myself and others, anxiety, insecurity, shame and guilt, still linger. I still have those moments where I wonder if I’m good enough to play at this level. I still expect more from myself than I can give. I still care too much about what my coach thinks. I still beat myself up over a bad game. I still put on the mask some days. I still wonder if I will really know what to do when I have to hang up my cleats for good. And I still love this g-d damn game more than anything in the world. These feelings are all a part of me, but they don’t control me anymore.

He doesn’t control me anymore.

I won. but you won’t see that statistic anywhere.

•It’s taken me a lot of years to get to this point and a lot of tears to write this out. It’s raw and real and all of me. Share with as many people as you care to. Thank you for listening. Write, message, reach out If you need someone to talk to, I’m here for you and I believe you•

 

Urban Meyer, head football coach of Ohio State, placed on administrative leave. Knew of an assistant abusing his wife and let it go. Also had same guy on his staff as a graduate assistant 10 years ago at Florida. Can't do that nowadays, people.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...an-meyer-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-scandal

 

You couldn't use italics or something, to indicate the context of who's speaking, could yer? Otherwise it looks like this kinda thing...

 

How often does "administrative leave" end with termination? I'm leaning toward they should get him gone, but I don't know they they will.
Nassar-esque wrestling staff, wifebeater football assistants, Steubenville... wtf is in the water up there?

 

I have been reluctant to comment because we didn't really know much about the situation, but I'm pretty sure Urban isn't going to be fired.

 

Does anybody besides me have a problem with the film director James Gunn being fired? He made a bunch of dumb-ass tweets a decade ago, the equivalent of the "dead baby" jokes than ran through my junior high. Tacky, classless stuff, and very much not funny.

OK bad.

On the other hand, it had been many years since he had posted them, and -- what seals the deal for me -- he was outed by people who truly did not give a shit. They surfaced these jokes as a personal attack, to try to take him down (because he is anti Trump). The lead instigator himself has a history of pedophilia postings ... but his side (pro Trump) doesn't care about that. This was not a campaign in search of justice. It was a campaign in search of one-way punishment, to get the anti-Trump guy even though the pro-Trump guy did the same thing.

https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-...he-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/

I understand that bad behavior deserves punishment, but when the right won't do so, and it uses the left's willingness to punish so as to manipulate the left into unilateral disarmament, well yeah I do have a problem with that.

 

Yes. It's remarkably stupid. It is also the eventual consequence of the current climate of mob warfare.

 

The daft thing is it's one of the aspects of tabloids like the daily hate-mail that people despise so much that NOTHING is just 'a bit disappointing', or 'rather unfortunate'. Everything has to be 'an outrage' or 'disgusting'.

More recently the left has started going the same way.

There's no such thing as a minor infraction or a comment being just 'ill-considered' or 'not properly thought through'. It has to necessitate an all-out nuclear response.

 

I don't have an answer. When you're facing a mob, there isn't room or time for measured responses.

 

"Both Sides Do It."

Your naîvete is, as always, breathtaking.

 

Yes, I am very angry about this.

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

 

Mmhmm. Tell me more, stud.

 

It's like asking a rape victim why she didn't just reason with her 300 pound attacker- or throw him to the ground.

 

It's nothing remotely like that.

 

Brock Turner loses appeal of sexual assault conviction https://t.co/bnHTyCQzVf

— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 9, 2018

I understand why the guy tried to get his conviction overturned, but did he in all honesty think it would succeed? He was caught in the act of raping an unconscious woman. If he doesn't end up on the sex offender registry, who should?

 

What you see as audacity,the privileged white upper class sees as a reasonable case to dismiss a youthful indiscretion.

 

Poor people. People of color. Ugly people. People who can't get into elite universities.

 

People with multiple convictions. Those who have demonstrated a pattern.

 

It was a typical knee-jerk, twitter mob mentality response.

********ing stupid.