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Perhaps NotHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 1:18pm
Wait, isn't #2 just rape?
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  swedesPerhaps Not
  9/13/13 2:22pm
  Sidney says “this is a bad idea” and begins to cry, but embraces Harper and the two proceed to have sex.
  
  I have no idea.
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  FatlawyerPerhaps Not
  9/13/13 3:10pm
  Wait, there can be sex without simultaneous tears?
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MizJenkinsHamilton Nolan
9/14/13 5:37am
Sidney says “this is a bad idea” and begins to cry, but embraces Harper and the two proceed to have sex.

Morgan lies still for a few minutes, then moves away, saying it is late and they should sleep.

Oh for fuck's sake. The problem here is that "no means no" only works when someone actually says NO. There are all sorts of ways in which rape culture fails to adequately protect victims...but one of them is by failing to empower people to take responsibility for their bodies and actually unambiguously verbalize that they do not want to have sex. Passive, wishy-washy, non-verbal reluctance does not cut it. Just fucking say "No, I don't want to have sex with you". To hell with politeness or popularity or bruising someone's ego. JUST. SAY. NO.

And spare me the victim-blaming nonsense. Yes, rapists need to held accountable for their actions too, but the burden should not be entirely on one party to decipher whether laying still means non-consent or laziness. Both parties need to fucking speak up and make their intentions clear, especially the party who is not consenting and expects that to be understood and respected.
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  FatLynnMizJenkins
  9/14/13 12:40pm
  This is why "only yes means yes" is a better standard. And why the F would you want to have sex with someone who is lying there doing nothing, or CRYING? Harper is having sex with someone who is CRYING. CRYING.
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  MizJenkinsFatLynn
  9/14/13 3:09pm
  Having sex with someone who is crying seems fucked up, I'll grant you. But so is laying in bed naked and crying with no explanation. And then STILL having sex with someone. Why are you crying?!? Say something!
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HelpIsHereHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:29pm
Am I the only one that appreciated all the gender-neutral names so I can pictured them all as girls?
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  _Mr_X_HelpIsHere
  9/13/13 12:34pm
  No, I also appreciated the gender neutral names. I especially enjoyed picturing Sidney the man beginning to cry after being touched in an intimate way by Harper the woman, but then Harper hugs him and they immediately proceed to have sex.
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  Thunder-LipsHelpIsHere
  9/13/13 12:39pm
  Shshsh......
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김치전!Hamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:48pm
McNulty and Rawls are having a late night meeting in Rawls' office. Rawls makes McNulty a gift of two obscene gestures, because McNulty has been talking with some shitbag judge about some dead project African-American. McNulty reassures Rawls that he is a team player, then goes to spend his entire night typing up a report.

McNulty ends up on the boat.
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  JewLawJD김치전!
  9/13/13 3:47pm
  "You have my undivided attention detective."
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  HyperBowling김치전!
  9/13/13 3:48pm
  I'm in agreement with SailtoHawkeye. This is some genius commenting right here. You could very well be Jesus.
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Montauk MonsterHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:30pm
Names used in hypothetical scenarios sure have changed since my day. Miss you Karen, Jamal, Yuki, and Jason.
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TedSezHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 1:02pm
"On the walk to Jessie’s room, they send a few texts... asking Jessie’s roommate to please sleep somewhere else."

So they have consensual sex, but it's the roommate who gets screwed.
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  blackintrovertTedSez
  9/14/13 1:26am
  So true. But I'll be damned if I had a roommate that wanted to get it on and they tried to force me to leave. The way I see it, you're trying to kick me out of my own house and that is a no no. I'm not paying an arm and a leg to live on campus for you to try to force me out of my living space so you can get your freak on with some dude you're probably never going to speak to again. Fuck that.
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mothersrapehornHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:25pm
Good work, fuckin' geniuses.

You can get into Yale but you dont know the difference between consensual sex and rape?

We need another Vietnam to thin out this generation.
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  BaconVonMapleBarmothersrapehorn
  9/13/13 12:31pm
  The only thing Nam thinned out was Vietnamese civilians.
  You want more maimed, mentally-scarred vets on the streets that we refuse to pay for?
  What we need is a draft. That'll get every white person in this country concerned about where we send our sons, daughters, and grand-children to advance a corporate-military industrial complex agenda.
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  wkiernanBaconVonMapleBar
  9/13/13 12:51pm
  As I remember the Vietnam draft from my far-off youth, it was specifically engineered so that Yalies would be safely exempt.
  
  Indeed, you can see this phenomenon even the the Noble & Idealistic Greatest-Generation War (WWII). To put all this in context, during the war years approximately 50% of the nation's GDP went to the military. So in 1944 when my father was being shelled by the Wehrmacht in France, Lieutenant Ronald Reagan was screwing every starlet in Hollywood and "serving" with the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit in Southern California. Tragically, Evil Big Government seized the lion's share of his big-big actor's income at that time. Of course Reagan never forgave this abominable crime. If my father, that leech, wanted bullets and K-rations, then why didn't he get a damn job and buy them himself? Once again, the "takers" were robbing the "makers." And so Reagan spent the rest of his life getting revenge for the horrible, unconscionable fleecing he suffered.
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America's WangHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:28pm
I need a Soupy and Sidney match up.
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  SunflowerSarah2America's Wang
  9/13/13 12:35pm
  Just wait. That's what fan fiction is for.
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  America's WangSunflowerSarah2
  9/13/13 12:39pm
  Oh I'd tackle it myself...but all my stuff's about Subway's Jared.
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Johnny ChundersHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 12:26pm
Salviati says "Wanna do it?" Simplicio says "OK, that is something I would like to do." They do it. It is ok.
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  BuffDrinklotJohnny Chunders
  9/13/13 12:29pm
  Yes, but the word 'like' opens the door to ambiguity.
  
  Then Salviati and Simplicio and ambiguity have themselves a threesome.
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YogaMathMelonHamilton Nolan
9/13/13 3:10pm
This is both hilarious and sad...I thought people who attended Yale were supposed to be smart. But, apparently, they need to have the word "NO" explained to them in multiple ways. Can you imagine the meeting in the Dean of Students office while writing this memo? I'm picutring many hysterically funny disagreements over verbiage: shall we call it oral sex? Why don't we just say "going down on" and so forth.

It's okay to go for it until your partner says NO. Then you stop.
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  blackintrovertYogaMathMelon
  9/14/13 1:28am
  There's a difference between book smart and street smart. At places like Yale, you'll have a lot of book smart people, but completely dumb in other areas. Unfortunately, I think the school I go to has a lot of those kind of people too. :(
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