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Motorized Mega-SatanRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 1:45am
So in Don Lemon's world, women are ninjas who are free from potential physical retribution if they fight off or injure men who sexually assault them. Maybe he would be so kind as to give sexual assault survivors the address of the monastery where the feminist ninjas he knows train, so next time a rape victim goes on the air, they can satisfy Don Lemon's criteria for his irregular "But Were You Really Raped?" segment.

Fuck you, Don Lemon, you prurient, clueless piece of shit.

EDIT - BONUS RAGE: "I had to ask." DID YOU REALLY FUCKING HAVE TO ASK? WHY? Was a producer squawking in his ear, threatening to punch him in the face? Was Don Lemon feeling like he needed to convince his viewers that Cosby's accusers are the "right kind" of rape victim (a helpless victim who was physically forced rather than "merely" co-erced)?

With a name like Don Lemon, I suppose you expect him to be a barely-there, intellectual midget (I get the feeling even his friends call him "Don Lemon" rather than just Don or Donnie or whatever). But even I'M appalled by this shit, and I thought I had somehow reached peak revulsion towards CNN after they resurrected the rotting corpse of Newt Gingrich's career, Weekend At Bernie's style, to replace the fresh corpse of morality vortex Robert Novak.
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  MissNormaDesmondMotorized Mega-Satan
  11/19/14 2:18am
  My pupils just turned into hearts. Gosh, I like you.
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  BiscuitMotorized Mega-Satan
  11/19/14 2:51am
  I was with you until you started bashing a person because of the name their parents gave them. So fuck you for drawing me with a clever take only to then blow it all with such petty unrelated nonsense.
  
  BTW: His middle name is Dilworth in case you want to use that to go into the grade-school-brand bullshit flinging abyss similar to people who bash Obama because his parents choose Hussein as his middle name.
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fuckitiamdoneRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 1:36am
How not to get raped? No, BUT definitely a good tip to consider when it comes to evidence collection.
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  Motorized Mega-Satanfuckitiamdone
  11/19/14 2:02am
  I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the last thing rape victims are thinking about during their assaults is the future court date.
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  fuckitiamdoneMotorized Mega-Satan
  11/19/14 2:18am
  I could be wrong, but I'm guessing if you turn up at the police station with a piece of your attackers dick they are not going to be asking for a rape kit.
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FlashlightningRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 1:44am
Soooo he's getting fired this time right? I feel like he's said a lot of really dumb shit this year.
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  Motorized Mega-SatanFlashlightning
  11/19/14 1:59am
  It's actually kind of an achievement to transcend CNN's policy of "inane" and cross into "horribly offensive." Still, I hear Fox News needs another black guy.
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  KittensAndUnicorns_v2_The UprisingFlashlightning
  11/19/14 7:49am
  my favorite is when don, a gay man himself, said:
  
  no one likes a gay minstrel show
  
  it's just too much projecting for me.
  
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misscarolannRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 3:38am
Just three things from my point of view as a rape survivor and a former nurse who has a lot of experience in this area:

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Often fighting back against an attacker leads to even further life-threatening injuries, maiming, and even death. I've seen documented cases of survivors of forced oral abuse having their eyes gouged out by men who react with even more rageful power when the victim "bites." Richard Ramirez did this to one of his victims. Kelly Anne Bates also had her eyes gouged out (and was then subsequently murdered) when she resisted in a well-known rape and murder case from the 1980s. The mandate when being assaulted is simple: survive, and often this mandate involves trying to reduce further harm and live through the experience.

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Predators often use myriad means to incapacitate victims or survivors. They use fear tactics through verbal intimidation. They use grooming tactics, emotional manipulation. They brandish weapons. Or they drug those on which they prey. And more. All victims and survivors are impaired: meaning, they are literally placed at an inherent power disadvantage whereby there is no preventative measure that can universally save the victim or the survivor from the fundamental crime, which is that a force bend on harming you is attacking you. You can't wear something that prevents it. You can say something that prevents it. You can't do something that universally prevents it. The stopping of the crime is the province of the attacker: the predators must stop and be stopped by being removed severely from society so they do no further crime.

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My chief empathy goes out to the victims and survivors of Bill Cosby's crimes. But I also have a quiet empathy mixed with quiet rage for Camille Cosby. The women who "stand by" predators—the wives, the mothers—those closet to these predatory fiends, those who have sex with them, who know their smells—these women deserve our simultaneous empathy and contempt. 9 times out of 10 they know what is going on. Like that privileged arrogant fiend Hillary Clinton knew her goddamn husband was serially preying on women with whom he held power, but she never released the stone of career advancement from her fucking soul to get away from a sick, demonic man, preferring to enable him and reap the powerful benefits of being married to a rich, powerful predator...like Hillary, so is Camille and all the women who, on many levels, were probably themselves abused by these men...as if these men poured cement into their very selves to create the millstone of enablement—bitter co-dependence—that lines their everlasting souls.
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  Gamora Thanosmisscarolann
  11/19/14 5:30am
  I am with you and I thank you for your words, also I need to speak out too as a survivor, and while I am not a specialist who has seen women, children, and men - like yourself who have endured such personal violence, I'd like to thank you for your words and say my bit. From my own experience, group therapy, and work at a Crisis Center - we need to remember to acknowledge our instincts and trust our guts. The frozen posture or compliant posture, well bloody well anything is the key in surviving Rape which is ALL about violence and control. I am not clear though about:
  
  "The stopping of the crime is the province of the attacker: the predators must stop and be stopped by being removed severely from society so they do no further crime."
  
  Ok, yes we like to shirk personal responsibility in our society too damn much so yes the Rapist is violent offender and NO is not the start of a negotiation. There should be no leave to interject "mitigating circumstances" as a way out. Substitute "rape" for attempted murder and see how insane some of the excuses given by rapists sound......so I totally get that. However, it is the Society as a whole that should make rape a socially destructive act for the Rapist and not the Raped person, it my thought that the ending of this cycle should not be placed upon a Criminal but the wider society. Can you help clarify that point for me.
  
  Thanks again. Stay Strong.
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  Guga912misscarolann
  11/19/14 5:48am
  I guess rapist murders are not all the same around the world, where I am from the main recommendation for women to make sure they survive an encounter with a rapist/murderer is fighting as hard as she can being as loud as she can and running away as fast as she can if possible.
  
  Maybe it's just because rape is much more rare and people actually go to prison for rape where I am from so rapists are almost always considered to be potential killers so the best way to survive is fighting the rapist in hopes he will find an easier target, since if you don't resist he will kill you anyway.
  
  Naturally cultural differences exist, but it's hard to believe that somebody only gouged out the eyes of the victim because the victim fought back and not because that was a thing sick fucks just tend to do when rape and beating just isn't enough anymore.
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SuffersfoolsgladlyRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 10:12am
What a tit.

When someone says "I don't mean to be crude.." they are about to be. Same with "No offense, but.."

I hate this shit. A few years ago I attracted the attention of a man I met briefly, for an hour during a meeting, who then stalked me for the next six months.

I ran a background check on him and found he had a five page rap sheet that included two years prison time for rape and robbery.

I cannot tell you how many people, male and female alike, asked me what I was wearing when I met him and what I had said that might have given him "the wrong idea".

My own husband told me I was "too friendly" to people. (He was not there, by the way.)

For the record, I was wearing a sultry pair of cargo pants, ambulance boots and a parka. I was also in my fifties, though I look somewhat younger.

We will know society is getting somewhere when we stop making it the victim's fault. I for one am not holding my breath.
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  DCILutheranSuffersfoolsgladly
  11/20/14 1:11am
  Individual instances have to be taken into account. And bad decision making doesn't detract from the guilt of the perpetrator. Lots of cases DON'T involve bad decision making, but some do and it really should be illuminated as a learning tool for us all to keep ourselves each other safe. And before anyone tells me I don't know what I'm talking I'll mention that I was raped and molested by an older cousin for years starting when I 8 years old.
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  SuffersfoolsgladlyDCILutheran
  11/20/14 10:21am
  Exactly. Very well put.
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OMG!PONIES!Rich Juzwiak
11/19/14 7:22am
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the "If she didn't bit it, she wanted to hit it" defense argument.
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MpfnfuFordRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 2:16am
I swear to God there's legions of men who think every woman is the fucking Bride from Kill Bill. I can only assume they think they're Clint Eastwood or some shit.
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Bitch PuddingRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 1:36am
My Firefox browser just crashed when I tried to open this piece. I guess the body also has ways of shutting down the Don Lemon, thank god.
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  kobayashimaroonBitch Pudding
  11/19/14 1:40am
  Does your firefox have teeth?
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Veronica CorningstoneRich Juzwiak
11/19/14 10:10am
Good for her for admitting she was stoned. Women don't have to be nuns to bring a rape case.
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  ShotgunFuneralVeronica Corningstone
  11/19/14 3:04pm
  I think she was stoned because he had drugged her.
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sncreducer9Rich Juzwiak
11/19/14 2:22am
If he didn't get fired for asking the single stupidest question in the history of journalism, he won't get fired for this.
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