It seems this topic comes up about once very two years on this journal.  Maybe that's not enough, maybe for some it's too much.  But it's important, and so I'm going to post about it.

jimhines wrote a post this morning entitled 'Rape in Fandom', in which he linked to a post by logansrogue  from earlier this week, in which she addressed her rapist in a letter.  She ( Read more... )

Link via jimhines - (warning, article is a landmine of triggers.)

High school student gang raped at/outside of school dance.

I...I have no words.  Bile and rage and other things are too busy clogging my throat.

As many as 20 people were present, some of them just watching this happen, not bothering to try and stop it or call 911.  OMG.

OMG.

I thought about my post on Roman Polanski a lot last night. This morning, I updated it to include a little more detail on my own personal history. If I'm going to come out and talk about this, I need to be as open and frank as possible ( Read more... )

I've been quiet on this, because I really don't know that I can comment with any degree of calm. Sometimes, the way society treats celebrity as being above the law, or even the simple moral values of right and wrong, is flat out sickening ( Read more... )