Trump loses bid for new trial in sexual assault case

[Mindysan33]

@Gelato

And because this is the game we’re playing today,

Well, some seem to be playing a game here, while the rest of us are legitimately unhappy about something that can easily be fixed…

@Melizmatic

But like Tam already said, “Do you.”

[subextraordinaire]

@Kii

Pretty much every single one of us has at least been threatened.

Truth.

[anon48584343]

So much “disturbing clarity”.

[Melizmatic]

@beschizza

Allow me to add my voice to those asking you to please edit the title; everything after the colon could be a potential trigger for folks.

[nosaj]

@Kii

More men should really be aware of how visceral descriptions of sexual assault can be for women, even those who have not been sexually assaulted.

I was told something in my early 20s that I wish had been included in my sex ed talks with my parents: women’s visceral feelings about sexual assault are comparable to men’s feelings about castration. I knew sexual assault was bad and wrong before I was told this. But I didn’t have a sense of how bad. Once I tried to imagine how I’d feel in a world with a 1-in-4 rate of violent castration, my world changed.

And on that note: Mr @beschizza , please remove the quote from the title.

ETA: Thanks, @beschizza

[danimagoo]

@bluehenbear

does not compute. why the almost?

Because New York’s legal definition of rape for the purposes of that lawsuit are narrow, so the jury found that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll but did not rape her. The judge now is making it clear that in the non-legal sense of the word, the jury absolutely found that Trump raped her (because of the specific actions mentioned in the headline) so his motions for reducing the damages or granting a new trial are completely groundless.

Also, for what it’s worth, add me to the list of people who feel that specific description has no business being in the headline. I have never been sexually assaulted, but I’m a human being capable of empathy, and that should be sufficient to understand why that headline is problematic.

[Bfarnn]

Can confirm. It’s… not a good feeling.

[beschizza]

Sorry for not promptly changing the headline (and sorry for not checking the thread).

For the record: Headlines on posts are easy to change, but tend to be cached in originally-published form in social media cards and other distributed stuff. BBS headlines require manual updates which are easy to forget. URLs don’t change automatically but we can trash them and repost under a different URL. With most software (like wordpress) if a website tells you they can’t delete or change a URL they’re mistaken: it’s likely someone just doesn’t want the traffic/ad analytics broken by the change

[Mindysan33]

Thank you, Rob. I appreciate the change.

Thanks for the technical context.