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McScuseMeBitchAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:49pm
What an entitled piece of shit.

I once stumbled on a sub on reddit where all these dudes were talking about how much they despised “females” for rejecting them and that they would all “be sorry” for fucking other men and not them.

We’ve failed to raise boys well and it’s our girls who are suffering for it.
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  anniegawker2-electricboogalooMcScuseMeBitch
  6/06/16 1:02pm
  I once stumbled on a sub on reddit where all these dudes were talking about how much they despised “females” for rejecting them and that they would all “be sorry” for fucking other men and not them.
  
  What charmers. I can’t imagine why anyone would reject them....
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  McScuseMeBitchanniegawker2-electricboogaloo
  6/06/16 1:06pm
  It was honestly amazing to read. They spoke about the girls in their school as if they were objects; walking vaginas who refused to open for “nice guys” like them.
  
  Nice guys who think that girls who won’t fuck them deserve to be murdered. One dude was even like “what is the point in hot women if you can’t have sex with them? Nothing, they have no value.”
  
  I’m keeping my daughters away from men until they’re 43.
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CaptOtterAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:50pm

GIF

While awaiting trial, Plaskon wrote a letter to his father saying he heard “voices” and that was the reason he “did what he did.”

Uh huh...
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  crankylittlephotonCaptOtter
  6/06/16 12:58pm
  
  I think it’s very telling that his legal team considered then opted NOT to pursue an insanity plea.
  
  I think he’s full of shit.
  
  And I’m tired of attorneys putting these men in glasses at trial to make them appear less threatening.
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  all my friends are problematic (aka do the truffle-shuffle)crankylittlephoton
  6/06/16 1:00pm
  Because attorneys never do that for female defendants? I guess you didn't follow the Jodi Arias trial...
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DL ThurstonAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:54pm
Brock Turner’s dad wants to know how many minutes the stabbing took before he decides whether the sentencing is fair or not.
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  c-eye-pDL Thurston
  6/06/16 12:59pm
  And whether or not the young man can still flash his easy-going smile and enjoy rib eye steaks. If not, the impact this has had on him is already too great.
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  freaks go all the wayc-eye-p
  6/06/16 1:27pm
  At least Plaskon’s father’s pretzels are safe from his adorable appetite now. Turner’s poor pretzels only get 6 months before Brock’ll be at it again raiding the cupboards, that scamp.
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LuaAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:52pm
Fuck this little punk. Fuck this little punk’s family. 25 years is nothing compared to what you did to that girl’s family and her friends.

PARENTS! Teach your children to take no for an answer. Tell them no one owes them anything because they were nice or the best. Learning rejection is one of the biggest life lessons a parent can instill in a child. It seems parents are more interested in protecting their children from rejection they create entitled monsters that think stabbing girls who don’t like you is justified.
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  PoodletimeLua
  6/06/16 1:58pm
  ^ THIS ^ I have a boy child who is reaching pre-adolescense, and this is one of the things we are putting the most emphasis upon at home. Your feelings are not other people’s responsibility. Your desires are not other people’s responsibility. No means no. It’s not funny to try to push on that boundary, because sometimes people are too shy to push back. No is no is no. It’s tedious and exhausting, but it’s got to be done.
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  Googly Eyed Plush ToyPoodletime
  6/06/16 2:45pm
  Yes. This absolutely has to be drilled into them. I think part of the problem is that in so many other areas of life both boys and girls are taught not to take no for an answer. Like if they assert themselves enough they can overcome anything. So people are getting mixed messages and if there isn’t someone making the whole no means no idea really clear too many people fail to get it. (Which is never an excuse for anyone’s behavior, just a point that I don’t think enough people address)
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Flying SquidAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:47pm
Margaret Atwood.
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  Zyna-katFlying Squid
  6/06/16 12:47pm
  You beat me too it.
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  SodburgerFlying Squid
  6/06/16 12:49pm
  if this gets more than 50 stars I’m going to be pissed I refrained from posting it first
  
  #idoitforthestars
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SapphireAnna Merlan
6/06/16 1:04pm
If what the man’s parents claim is true (I’m not saying it is) then isn’t this guy a text book case for why America needs to step up on Mental Health Care? Also was the man on medication or was he continuing to receive therapy at the time of the murder? (If the parents stopped treatment when their child still had problems then some of the blame should fall on them too.)
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  LuaSapphire
  6/06/16 1:07pm
  No fuck this weak ass excuse for raising entitled shitbags. If your child is showing signs of mental illness it’s a parent’s responsibility to make sure he is getting the help he needs. You don’t shrug and say “you know it’s not that surprising...” once your kid MURDERS someone. This wasn’t mental illness this was an entitled asshole.
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  cvrodSapphire
  6/06/16 1:15pm
  Agreed. Regarding the parents, let’s rewind to before he decided to murder this poor girl. He was cutting and mutilating himself. If your child is doing this to themselves, they have very large issues. They need to seek a professional to deal with this. You don’t just send them to school, have the school suspend them for a week, and call it a day saying “Oh well, we tried!” No, trying is getting them help that they need, getting them on medication, in treatment homes, getting the school involved to monitor him at school, getting teachers involved, getting the police involved if needed, etc. Sorry, but if my kid’s school called and told me she was cutting herself or mutilating herself, I would do whatever I could do and afford to get her some help. This kid is of an age where he knows that killing someone is not the right thing to do, but his parents have some ownership in this as well. You let your child out of your house knowing full well he suffered from some mental illnesses and issues.
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recidiviciousAnna Merlan
6/06/16 12:47pm
In b4 the Atwood.

Seriously though, when will this shit stop? What do we have to do to just be allowed to be without men feeling like we owe them shit just for them breathing in our general direction?
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  ThirdAmendmentManrecidivicious
  6/06/16 12:54pm
  Abort all men and just save their sperm for procreation? Have all children through IVF.
  
  Start an actual Amazonian society?
  
  Just give me a few more years of freedom.
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  FireKittyThirdAmendmentMan
  6/06/16 1:30pm
  
  Futurama is right again!
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cormaminAnna Merlan
6/06/16 1:38pm
You know, this just reminds me of the time in high school something similar happened to me (minus the murder). Long, but worth reading.

This happened after I broke up with my longtime boyfriend. A guy who was not all mentally “there”, S, started following me around. One thing to note about S was that he had mental and physical handicaps which left him about 6'8" and 450+ lbs, with the self-control and temperament of a 4-6 year old boy.

When S found me crying in the hallway at the school, he said something about how “It’s okay - now that you (boyfriend and I) aren’t together anymore, we can go out”. He said it as if it was decided. I had never done anything more with, for, or to S than say hello to him when I saw him, because he was somehow related to my boyfriend. It got to the point where he was showing up outside my classes. Waiting for me outside school, even afterhours. Once, he followed me to my mom’s car.

I talked to my friends about it. I am not what people perceive as a victim “type” - I’m not small, dainty, soft-spoken, etc. I am loud, large (250lbs at the time), and domineering. Everyone thought it was kind of funny, except for one or two girls.

The next day, in front of a few of my friends, this guy picked me up, all 250lbs of me, pushed me against a wall, and tried to make out with me in front of a crowd. Everyone watched. No one did anything. And I, who was not used to feeling any kind of helplessness at all, froze just a bit. He was too fat for me to kick him in the balls, too strong for me to make him let me down, and he had my arms crushed so I wouldn’t have been able to hit him even if I had thought to. So I turned my head, to the right, and he “kissed” my neck and ear. Then he put me down, grabbed my hand, and walked me to my next class. He led me there, because as he told me, he knew my class schedule.

I went to the principal’s office the second S was out of sight. I explained what was happening. I described what I now feel quite comfortable calling “the assault”. And they said they took it seriously. They said they would protect me, and make sure S didn’t come near my classes or me, and always had a chaperone - kids with the issues he had were supposed to anyway, particularly because he was strong and prone to violent outbursts. I went back to class feeling elated. I was strong, I was a BraveWoman™, and I was safe again.

S was waiting for me at my next class. He wouldn’t let me go in. He was so hurt and above all angry - “Why did you tell them I did that? Why didn’t you tell them you liked it? You have to go tell them you love me.” On and on. I remember vaguely that he hurt me, but idk how - shaking or grabbing at me, etc. Again, all in public. The teacher didn’t get involved - they started to come out to tell me to get in the classroom, saw what was going on, and turned away.

I went to the principal’s office. This was in 2006, so school shootings and violence were not strange things no one had heard of, and I was livid. We had a guy come that year and try to shoot a girl for THIS SAME REASON IN THE SAME STATE that year. I went, and I asked them if this was how they were going to protect me.

“All we can really do is talk to him until he does something.”

He ASSAULTED ME. He’s STALKING ME.

“No teachers saw it.”

YES, THEY DID.

“You didn’t say no.”

I didn’t say YES.

I went back to my friends, shaking and crying.

One of those girls, who I have very few doubts that I owe a very large debt, told me she would take care of it. She began walking with me in the hallways, and meeting me outside of class. S was confused by her presence, but he didn’t try anything in front of her until the second day. I don’t remember what he did. What I do remember is that she got in front of me, “shoved” him back (she was maybe 190lbs soaking wet), grabbed my hand and said (paraphrasing):

“HEY. This is MY girlfriend, and if you EVER fucking touch her again, I will [insert random act involving dismemberment/violence/etc]. You need to stop waiting for her outside of her classes, stop following her, and you need to stop doing all this other shit. She’s MINE. LAY OFF.”

It was like magic. S never touched me again. He never went near me again. He turned away in the hallways. I think he looked at me maybe twice afterward.

It’s even more disturbing to me now, because I understand what happened: the universal code that men are taught, even someone with all his issues, is ownership of women.

The second thing that disturbs me is that this could have been me, 10 years ago, in the same state. And people would have blamed me for it.
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  Starlingcormamin
  6/06/16 2:03pm
  I am sorry you had to deal with that situation - it had to be incredibly terrifying! I’m so glad your friend was able to find the magic phrase to make him leave you alone and keep you safe.
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  VeggieTartcormamin
  6/06/16 2:04pm
  I’m so sorry this happened to you. And I’m sorry the school didn’t take it seriously. But I’m glad you got away without further harm.
  
  But I have read that women have to invent boyfriends to get unwanted would-be suitors to back the hell off because they respect a nonexistent guy’s “ownership” over a woman’s autonomy.
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IsaAnna Merlan
6/06/16 1:19pm
What astounds me is that these pieces of slug fecal matter fail to see the women were right to deny them given their subsequent choice to hurt them when turned down. I'm so drained from reading post after post of violence against women. Wtf is going on with men? What are we raising?!
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  PoodletimeIsa
  6/06/16 2:14pm
  I’m not sure that the parents are entirely to blame. I point the finger at violent, misogynistic video games and movies as well. Plus the overall detachment and ennui that comes from so much smart phoning and texting. There’s a terrifying piece in, I think, the Atlantic about hookup culture and how it relates to texting and smartphones and failure to adhere to consent.
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  thatsoundsmiserablePoodletime
  6/06/16 3:19pm
  No, violent video games are not to blame. Shitty parenting—people who never taught their son how to manage the word no, and people who refused to get their kid help when he was harming himself, ignoring it til he harmed someone else—are to blame.
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HappyHighwaymanAnna Merlan
6/06/16 1:21pm
Schools just ignore everything except kids who bring Tylenol or nail clippers to school, don’t they?
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  My Name Breaks the RulesHappyHighwayman
  6/06/16 1:28pm
  Or build clocks. But that’s only if they’re brown.
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  Cakes, Pies, LiesMy Name Breaks the Rules
  6/06/16 2:14pm
  Or wear all black. Kids who wear black are Satanic.
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