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[freedom78]

I know people talk about reparations for slavery sometimes, but shouldn't we also be open to reparations for gender non-conforming folks, for the abuse they've suffered?

[Mr. Roboto]

This week we drop the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan and then sign legislation defunding planned parenthood because they may perform abortions sometimes. Thank goodness the GOP is consistent in what they believe. 

[artcinco]

It's like the last eight years are a fading dream...


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[Mr. Roboto]

It's like the last eight years are a fading dream...


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Hopefully Trump will be gone before he gets us all killed. I see trouble on the horizon. 

[freedom78]

Hopefully Trump will be gone before he gets us all killed. I see trouble on the horizon. 

 

Except that he's about the bomb NK, too.  That won't go well.

[Mr. Roboto]

Except that he's about the bomb NK, too.  That won't go well.

 

Two fat kids with Daddy issues who have access to nukes...what could go possibly wrong?

[Timothy]

can we get both them on Dr. Phill with the catch me outside girl?!

[Mr. Roboto]

can we get both them on Dr. Phill with the catch me outside girl?!

 

Too tired to make a meme for this ^^

[Mr. Roboto]

Bill O’Reilly Shouldn’t Have Kept His Job This Long

 

His boorish behavior toward women isn’t new.

 

It’s a poorly kept secret that Bill O’Reilly was not popular at Fox News. Sure, he was popular with Fox News viewers. But internally, many staffers have long loathed the bombastic host, holding their nose and putting up with him because his ratings regularly make him the top dog in cable news.

 

It’s not hard to understand why so many Fox News employees recoiled at O’Reilly. While there are new women who have come forward recently to accuse him of sexual harassment, O’Reilly’s behavior has long been known. The New York Times reported that the network “has been aware of complaints about inappropriate behavior by Mr. O’Reilly since at least 2002, when Mr. O’Reilly stormed into the newsroom and screamed at a young producer.” 

 

The most well-known incident dates back to 2004, when a producer named Andrea Mackris filed a lawsuit against O’Reilly alleging sexual harassment. Mackris’ lawsuit said, among other things, that O’Reilly engaged in unwanted phone sex with her while using a vibrator. 

 

Still, the network kept him around.

 

Even beyond these incidents, O’Reilly often made clear his contempt for women. On his radio show in August 2006, he commented on the rape and murder of a young woman, suggesting that she shared some of the blame because of her intoxicated state and what she was wearing: 

 

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Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk.

I wrote about O’Reilly’s comments in 2009 when I worked for the site ThinkProgress, tied to the news that he was slated to speak at a fundraiser to benefit rape survivors. In return, O’Reilly sent his producer, Jesse Watters, to track me down and ambush me while I was on vacation in another state a few weeks later.

 

O’Reilly never contacted me in advance for comment, and Watters never identified himself as being with The O’Reilly Factor. He did, however, launch immediately into questions about why I was causing “pain and suffering” to rape survivors and their families. 

 

Apparently, O’Reilly’s way of showing that he is a friend to women who have been victims of crimes was to send his male producer to follow a young woman who lived alone across state lines while she was on vacation. He then aired multiple segments on me, accusing me of being a “villain.” Fearing for my safety at the time, my employer took extra security precautions and encouraged me to buy pepper spray.

 

And of course, his treatment of women isn’t the whole story. There’s also how he has treated people of color over the years as well. (His shock that a soul food restaurant in Harlem was no different from other restaurants in New York City ― “even though it’s run by blacks” ― gives you a taste of what he thought.)

 

For years, Fox News deliberately looked the other way on O’Reilly. What’s amazing isn’t that O’Reilly finally lost his show, it’s that he was allowed to keep it for so long.

 

And despite O’Reilly’s attempt to ruin me, unlike him, I still have a job today.

 

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[freedom78]

Anybody following this "yes means yes" stuff out of California and other places? 

 

 

I tend to agree.  I don't see how any of this helps stop rapists, such as those who don't care about a vocal "no", who drug women, etc.  I can't imagine any rapist being deterred by the lack of verbal consent, or caring about the definition of consent.  Those sorts of rapes, which we all abhor, are completely unaffected by a law like this, because the lack of consent is already obvious.

 

What a law like this does is to take areas where physical acts progress (i.e. "foreplay") toward sex and treat that as if it's a rape, because it relies on physical cues and physical enthusiasm, rather than a vocal "yes, I'm ready to proceed from kissing to groping at which point I will rationally reevaluate my options", which really doesn't seem like the way sex works. 

 

Sadly, as we have apparently had a rape on campus, my university send out an email to let everyone know, and in it it included the university's understanding of consent:

 

"Consent - Anyone initiating any kind of sexual contact with another person must obtain their consent. Consent is an agreement or permission expressed through affirmative, voluntary words or actions that are mutually understandable to all parties involved. Consent cannot be given by someone who is incapacitated by the use of alcohol and/or drugs."

 

None of that nonsense we're seeing in other places.  See, not every university has gone insane.

[Mr. Roboto]

The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’

[freedom78]

The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’

 

Someone needs an editor. 

[Timothy]

too much reading and not enough pussy grabbing'!!

[freedom78]

Apparently Hobby Lobby's religious exemption to anti-smuggling laws didn't come through.

[Mr. Roboto]

BREAKING: Comedian Louis C.K. says allegations of sexual misconduct are true, expresses remorse.