Imagining rape as merely a violation in consent, puts the onus of the crime on the victim. We are the ones who decide whether or not to consent. But if we accept that what Gaiman did was wrong because it was an act of violence, then we see the truth -- Gaiman committed the rape.

But frankly fuck this. It does not reflect my experiences as a survivor. While I was being raped, I never once thought about consent. I felt agony, fear, and physical pain.

When I was violently raped in college, my rapist framed it as "non-consenting BDSM." And so when talking about the violent strangulation that occured, nobody cared about what I had actually gone through-- torture. Only about the bureaucratic misstep on the part of my rapist.

The growing acceptance of "consensual" sexual torture just turns what would be clear rape, assault, and battery into a mere slip up in the bureaucracy of acquiring consent, and therefore much more excusable. It is no longer the violence and degradation that shocks us, but lack of excusableness.

This is such a good point and it makes me feel pretty guilty for sharing the picture of him smiling and sending it to all my friends. I didn't realize when I did it that it would help him be caught. I assumed the police were working with some kind if high tech magic.

Men do not buy the majority of books, because in general men prefer more immediate gratification than women, and spend more time on porn and video games. So the demand for male books is down. This is not because of bias in publishing, but simple supply and demand.

Here's the real problem: Men as a whole don't read. When I was in high school, I started a book club. Almost everyone who joined was a girl. I was also an English major. 90% were girls. We read reading lists full of male authors.

Only white men get to be aesthetically working class in this country. The rest of our interests, no matter how class bases they may be, are seen as distractions.

My father took the national geographic DNA test and found that he was 4% neanderthal and 4% denisovan and that in total, 8% of his DNA was non homo sapien. Ive never heard of anyone having more than that. He looks completely normal, and doesn't have a brow ridge at all.

I literally can't with how perfect he is. And the reason he was smiling was because the front desk person told him let me see your smile lol

Many places other than America are also bad and oppressive. The people there are just as bad and unenlightened and cruel. But you can't do much about that. You can, however, try to improve your own country.

Only the most privileged even have the option of leaving. And they are precisely the people who need to stay.

You don't have to think this country is the greatest in the world. You can even hate it. But hate it or love it, it is your home. And if your family colonized, enslaved and oppressed people here, you must stay and try to mitigate that harm.

I agree. If we did not have anger, we wouldn't be human.

Why did he simply use the free market to survive?

I'm sure he could've afforded private security.

Seems like a failure at capitalism imo