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Scott here thinks he’s totally in the clear because while he heard about a rape commented on a rape witnessed the rape and did nothing about it, he didn’t actually rape anybody so we should all just leave him alone.

When men rape, everyone talks about their futures. When a woman is raped, everyone interrogates her past. #Cornell7

Six cameras. In a classroom. Pointed at teenagers. That is what Prince Harry brought to Ninestiles Academy in Birmingham last week for a visit that was, on paper, a good idea: Invictus, prosthetics, engineering, a carbon-fibre leg on the table, the sort of thing that can genuinely change what a fifteen-year-old thinks is possible. And then the crew walked in behind him. One of the students said what all of them were thinking, on a video now everywhere: there are six cameras in my face. He added two words the school will not have enjoyed. Another pupil, before the Duke entered, reportedly asked who Prince Harry was. In the footage the kids sit around the table, barely looking up, while he gestures at them. Nobody is laughing. They just want the lesson back. Now remember who he is. This is the man who has told us, in a book, on Oprah, on Netflix, in a courtroom, in speech after speech, what cameras did to him as a boy. Who walked behind his mother's coffin at twelve with the lenses on his face and has, quite reasonably, never forgotten it. Who left the country, he said, to protect his children from exactly this. Whose children's faces are hidden from every camera on earth except the one his wife points at them for Instagram. Who last week stood on a stage in New York and warned the world about technology that finds young people, hooks them and exploits them. And then he walked into a school full of other people's children with six cameras, because a visit without cameras is a visit without content, and content is the only thing that still gets him a headline. That is the tell. The crowds have thinned. The book is three years old. The Netflix numbers are what they are. A school in Birmingham does not draw the attention it used to unless it's filmed, so it was filmed, and the children who are supposed to be the point of the exercise became the set. He knows better than anyone alive what it feels like to have a lens pushed into your face at an age when you cannot say no. A boy in Birmingham said no anyway. Good for him. Somebody had to.

We choose the bear because if it drugged and assaulted us for 7 hours, authorities would shoot it not ask it to write an essay and then help it find a job at a wealth management firm. Be so for real, Cornell.

A 7-year-old girl was riding her bike when a stranger pulled up, grabbed her and forced her into his car. Her aunt, Alecia Swejkoski, saw it happen and sprinted toward the vehicle. Alecia threw herself halfway through the driver’s side window and started fighting him while her niece was still trapped inside. The man punched her, grabbed for the wheel and violently jerked the car forward and backward, trying to throw her off and get away. But Alecia kept one hand on the steering wheel and the other fighting to get his grip off the little girl. Then another driver, Scott Van Luven, saw what was happening and pulled his vehicle in front of the car to block the suspect in. He rushed over, helped pull the man out and held him there until police arrived. Alecia was hurt, but her niece got out safely. Because Alecia refused to let go and Scott chose to stop and help, that little girl made it safely back to her family.

Cw:R What's especially sick about the Cornell thing is that, speaking from experience doing IV ketamine for treatment, ket allows you to feel your body and have conscious thoughts but you cannot make your body move. That she was forced to endure seven hours of torture is beyond me, and will have to live with this for a lifetime, as traumatic memories are not integrated into normal memory but stored in active memory, so the limbic system experiences them as current when prompted, and the inescapable horror happens to her again as if no time has passed. This is why rape is so insidious, and is essentially a life sentence even if victims technically reach remission with years of hard work. These men should perhaps be in prison for the time it takes her to get her PTSD into remission, which will take at least a decade or more at minimum... Though many never reach that level of recovery.

Do you know what’s so fucked up? When a woman is raped, it alters the trajectory of her entire life. But it doesn’t seem to make a fucking difference for the rapist’s life.

I can’t stop laughing. Canadian geese will now be known as “Donald Ducks”.🤣🤣

The Muppets have released a statement on the tragic passing of Tim Curry. “Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer, he was unparalleled – witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.”

A lot of people aren't going to want to hear this but much of the "depression" that parents (and not just moms) suffer after child birth is due not so much to hormones but to the fact that children, especially babies, are demanding and difficult and require us to subordinate our own needs and desires for their sake. The more selfish you are, the more of an adjustment it's going to be.

Millennials & Gen Z work more hours and more jobs than previous generations with less compensation in return. They also log more unpaid hours than generations prior. More than boomers more than Gen X etc. Their costs are also higher than any of those generations. Just facts

🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk RIPS the Red Cross after they got caught DELETING a shocking video that praised a Muslim migrant — Sharif Ahmadzai — who migrated to Britain and KlLLED A WOMAN Then he hid her body in a suitcase... Absolutely unbelievable. THIS IS WHO THEY PRAISE ELON: "The Red Cross has far more positive branding than it deserves. As organizations go, they would be on the leaderboard for suicidal empathy." 💯 h/t @BasilTheGreat

I don't feel cancelled? My followers have gone up to almost a million on @instagram and on here to half a million? open.spotify.com/track/1Jmqu…

🚨🎥 TMZ's Harvey Levin calls the attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s witnessed in government, comparing the push to jail him to the fear and persecution of the McCarthy era.

Elizabeth Warren wants to retract her endorsement of Graham Platner but she doesn’t want to look like an Indian giver.