How many times have we heard that a rape assertion is unfair because 'its a he said she said thing' and 'you can't convict just on words'. We need evidence. Where's the proof? The accused deserve a fair trial. Put your proof in front of a judge, or shut the fuck up.
This judge is DISMISSING EVIDENCE and has literally turned the fundamentals of the case into a 'he said she said' charade.
The only reason we even know this is happening is because of Gisèle's insistence that journalists be allowed to attend and report on the court proceedings. Normally, this would be behind closed doors and we'd be none the wiser.
I don't think the language gap helps, but I'm furious this is not being covered more widely in English language media.
The suggestion that the videos are too undignified and sensational is incredible. What's next, blood spatter photos being kept secret from murder cases?
If the fucking proof is too much for the court, maybe the court needs a binky and a blanket while it cries over its hurt fee fees.
The legal system (anywhere) is not well equipped to deal with rape, especially the most common kind, which is by an acquaintance and committed in non-public places and often with very little incontrovertible physical evidence of rape, even when it happened, even when it happened
violently. That's why it is so often left unreported. And the idiots who don't understand that testimony
is evidence should sit down and stfu.
being the naturefag i am, i posited a question to my wife that i'd also like to hear this thread's responses to: as far as consumer level (i.e individual people doing it and not corporations) pollution, environmental destruction, and species extinction goes, how much of it is potentially because of males?
i'm asking because i thought about how men built up this insane notion of masculinity around destroying and killing for the fun of it, owning loud, expensive, gas-guzzling toys as a flex, refusing to show empathy for "lesser" living things outside of their immediate personal circle, being a lazy, neglectful slob, and chasing exotic aphrodisiacs to get their peepee hard. obviously i know that both genders contribute to the problem, i'm not going to pretend tiktok hasn't been rocket fuel for consoomers to cycle through fast fashion and makeup trends every five fucking minutes, but i feel like the combination of specific factors listed above created a perfect storm that'll only lose momentum when bored, insecure, greedy xy's stop pushing the idea that caring even a little bit about your actions will magically make all your testosterone evapourate.
as for the corporate level ghouls who are directly responsible for policies, laws, and lobbying groups enabling other ghouls to trash our planet and degrade our quality of life, i'd just be preaching to the choir at the expense of my blood pressure. they're among the most subhuman of moids to me. in a perfect world i'd get to watch a petroleum company's ceo be tied to a breaking wheel on daytime television.
I know you're wanting to talk about the consumers rather than the corporate drivers of consumerism, but to get a real answer you'd need to break down who's buying what in what proportions and come up with the relative destructive effects of those choices.
But I still think it's important to look to the companies - which are not mindless reactive forces, but in fact spend untold money creating and driving demand (see, e.g., Apple's planned obsolescence model). So even if it's old-hat, I'm going to point out the state of large-company leadership.
In 2023, women CEOs in the Fortune 500 passed 10% for the first time in history (58 as of 1/2023). For the S&P 500 in 2023,
it was only 41.
In retail, women lost CEO ground in 2023, a year of enormous CEO turnover, with only 10% of new CEOs being women:
Given that
roughly half of the people employed in retail are women and they are well represented in retail C-suite and senior management positions, one would assume that retail would be an industry more open to picking women to fill the top job, but that is not the case.
Rather, women lost ground in 2023, according to a detailed analysis of CEO retail appointments conducted by Korn Ferry
KFY -1.1%. Of the 47 newly-appointed retail CEOs last year, only five were female and 12 outgoing women CEOs were replaced by men. Overall, some 90% of new retail CEOs were men, and only 10% were women.
“It surprised me because boards and investors are being extremely thoughtful about trying to match their CEOs with the mandate of the business and their customer base,” shared John Long Korn Ferry’s North America retail sector leader. “I would have thought we would have retained almost as many women coming in as departed.”
Why so few women CEOs?
This paper concludes the major factor is a disproportionate number of men in the candidate pool - because of lack of identification, funneling, and promotion of women much earlier in career arcs.
There is also the glass cliff phenomenon:
A study published in the
Journal of Management, “You’re Fired! Gender Disparities in CEO Dismissal,” from researchers at the University of Alabama’s Culver College of Business, confirms boards have less patience when it comes to women CEOs.
The study of 641 CEO dismissals found that women have a 45% greater likelihood of being fired than men, regardless of the firms’ overall performance.
The researchers attribute this to what is called the ‘glass cliff,’ where after a woman has broken through the ‘glass ceiling’ to reach CEO, she is held to a higher standard than men and faces more scrutiny and criticism than her male counterparts.
“Female CEOs are more likely to be dismissed than male CEOs, and higher levels of firm performance protect male but not female CEOs from dismissal. Such results provide strong evidence that gender plays a significant role in CEO dismissal,” the research concludes.
So to address your question, regardless of who supposedly drives retail spending, the captains of those ships are the ones making decisions about driving demand, as well as packaging, materials, sourcing, etc. And the vast majority of those people are men.
Eta - People talking about beauty products and who's driving it.
Here's a list of the top 20 CEOs in the beauty world. You can do the math.
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Woman gets fillers and plastic surgery to look younger: "Eewww sooo fake! Why do women do this to themselves? Don't they know men love when women are natural!!"
Woman ages naturally without getting plastic surgery: "EEEWwwww what happened to her?! she hit the wall!
"
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. According to moids women should just commit suicide as soon as the first wrinkle appears on our foreheads I guess because it's just unacceptable for a woman to not be attractive to them. Meanwhile they praise Johnny Depp who looks like a literal corpse.
Kirsten Dunst is 42. I thought the wall was
35 30 25?
And her husband is Jesse Plemons, who, though much more attractive with the weight-loss than when younger, is hardly looking like he drank from the Fountain of Youth at 36:
