The summary implies that the entirety of both acts were consensual
No, the summary says that Assange claimed that. You’re reading your own bias into it if you think that means anything other than exactly that: he claimed that.
The summary also called it “alleged sexual misconduct”, which tells us that the women claimed it was not consensual. Both parties’ claims were addressed.
Guy has consensual sex with woman A. Guy has consensual sex with woman B. Time passes, during which one/both women continue seeing Guy. Woman A and woman B learn Guy has been fucking both of them. Woman A and woman B both come up with stories about how they told him to stop, no not without a condom, was asleep, etc. how he “raped” them both. What a coincidence, obviously we should believe them over anything Guy has to say.
Did she? Did he anyway? Is this all just a made-up allegation to get Assange into Sweden so they can extradite him to the US, since this ridiculous he-said-she-said case is based on no evidence whatsoever?
According to all of the actual factual evidence that we do have, the women only decided it was rape after they learned about each other. Discovering that your man has another woman on the side doesn’t make what he did last night “rape”.
You may start thinking: How many times did that guy have unprotected one-night-stands before? Does he have any STDs? Have I been infected? Let's at least try to find out whether that guy had an HIV screening recently!
Right, because the most obvious way to find out whether you’ve been exposed to an STD is to track down old sexual partners and have them tested for STDs...
That’s a red herring. Regardless of whether you want the “government” and the “police” to be separate, they should both be accountable for their actions.
Since they’d already been having sex and sleeping together, this is more like HungryHobo’s hypothetical girlfriend situation than the hypothetical hungry hobo situation you described.
Furthermore, "two Facebook imitators"!? I'm sorry, have you completely forgotten MySpace and Friendster? Do you consider Wolfenstein a "Doom-clone"?
Try visiting one of the imitators mentioned in the summary and see if you can figure out what makes “Facebook imitators” different from MySpace and Friendster.
Hint: they’re shamelessly copied off Facebook, with different logos.
Slashdot Mirror
It was 4 months ago, though.
The summary implies that the entirety of both acts were consensual
No, the summary says that Assange claimed that. You’re reading your own bias into it if you think that means anything other than exactly that: he claimed that.
The summary also called it “alleged sexual misconduct”, which tells us that the women claimed it was not consensual. Both parties’ claims were addressed.
And you know what actually happened how?
Well, let’s see. What we know:
Guy has consensual sex with woman A.
Guy has consensual sex with woman B.
Time passes, during which one/both women continue seeing Guy.
Woman A and woman B learn Guy has been fucking both of them.
Woman A and woman B both come up with stories about how they told him to stop, no not without a condom, was asleep, etc. how he “raped” them both.
What a coincidence, obviously we should believe them over anything Guy has to say.
Did she? Did he anyway? Is this all just a made-up allegation to get Assange into Sweden so they can extradite him to the US, since this ridiculous he-said-she-said case is based on no evidence whatsoever?
According to all of the actual factual evidence that we do have, the women only decided it was rape after they learned about each other. Discovering that your man has another woman on the side doesn’t make what he did last night “rape”.
You may start thinking: How many times did that guy have unprotected one-night-stands before? Does he have any STDs? Have I been infected? Let's at least try to find out whether that guy had an HIV screening recently!
Right, because the most obvious way to find out whether you’ve been exposed to an STD is to track down old sexual partners and have them tested for STDs...
Option B: Get yourself tested.
That’s a red herring. Regardless of whether you want the “government” and the “police” to be separate, they should both be accountable for their actions.
Time for an Anonymous Coward to be flogged. Not only can you not correctly use Occam’s razor, but you can not correctly spell it either.
Since they’d already been having sex and sleeping together, this is more like HungryHobo’s hypothetical girlfriend situation than the hypothetical hungry hobo situation you described.
it will be nearly impossible to prove that consent was withdrawn and that the other party understood that and continued anyway.
Which is why this ridiculous fabrication of a charge will be dropped moments before Assange is extradited to the US.
And what does that have to do with what actually happened?
No true Scotsman, hmm?
It does. And I assumed that it was all kinds of legalese...
No, it isn't.
You stopped reading his post a little bit too soon.
What you forgot was that if the woman is underage, it is rape even here in the U.S.
And that was exactly as relevant to this discussion as your comment, seeing as neither of them happened.
Must wear Shoes that cover your toes, Skirt or Pants (trousers for those of you in the UK) and a Shirt
So open-toed women’s dress shoes would be a no-no?
who also claims that he was the 'world's worst screw,'
Why is it ironic that we are talking about what is supposedly “rape” in terms of whether or not it was the “world’s worst screw”?
Furthermore, "two Facebook imitators"!? I'm sorry, have you completely forgotten MySpace and Friendster? Do you consider Wolfenstein a "Doom-clone"?
Try visiting one of the imitators mentioned in the summary and see if you can figure out what makes “Facebook imitators” different from MySpace and Friendster.
Hint: they’re shamelessly copied off Facebook, with different logos.
And loads of them have facebook accounts (and use them regularly)
Real facebook accounts, or accounts with some Chinese facebook look-alike?
Happy net?!
Sounds like a double-plus good name.
Google Alexander Peter Kowalski.
Get a life.
You’re replying to APK. This is his life.
If your ashamed of what you are doing you should not be doing it.
You should be ashamed.
I'm not entirely certain what the highest age of consent in any USA federal state is.
It’s actually 18. And my point was that it’s entirely arbitrary and therefore “adolescent” isn’t a particularly useful descriptor.
I.e. “ephebophilia” is generally more in the 14-17 age range, certainly not the 18-22 range as C64_love for some reason claimed it was.
My parents weren’t parents when they conceived me, you insensitive clod!
a photo of a teenager one day shy of her eighteenth birthday... nudity, regardless of age, is not illegal
If she’s having sex with her boyfriend (which is legal in most states), it’s hardcore child pornography.
Adolescent means an individual who is post-puberty but still legally not considered an “adult”.
In other words, the only difference between “ephebophile” and “normal” is an arbitrary line that the legal system drew at 18 years old.