Sexual Allegations Thread.

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I feel terrible for those 2% of people, regardless of whether they're male or female identified. But I also feel exponentially worse for the 63% of people who don't come forward because they're afraid of looking like that 2%.

As I've said elsewhere in the thread it is entirely possible that both people involved in the Hardwick scandal could be entirely telling the truth from their perspective.

I think it is completely within the realm of the possible that abusive people do not see themselves as abusive.
They are not mustache-twirling bad guys. Or Cruella DeVilles seeking to make coats from puppies.

They are people with a control problem.

People who do bad things are still people. And by labeling them as monsters all you do is convinced a bunch of people with those tendencies we're not talking about them.

And here's the problem with saying that rape is worse than murder, and that it should be treated as such by the legal system:
You get rapists to just go and murder their victims because they'll serve less time in prison if they're caught.

And depending on what they look like, if they are caught maybe they'll get six months because they have such a promising future and why would we want to ruin that for a half an hour of bad decisions.