So there I was, pushing my walker down the street like an old, crippled woman.  It was late in the evening, in a fancy, residential part of town.

I looked over, and not really to my surprise, I saw a man sitting on a front porch masturbating.  It's rather cold out, especially after dark.  He was wearing a dark coat with a hood pulled up, so I couldn't see anything but a dark figure in a rocking chair making the classic "chicken choking" gesture.

"Get some privacy, WTF man?" I shouted as I walked past.  The town where I live is famous for being a bit of a ghetto.

I walked about five steps, out of visual range of the creeper, and saw a police patrol car coming slowly toward me.  So I made the same gesture I had just seen, and pointed to the man in the rocking chair.

The cop rolled down his window.  "Did you call?"

I shook my head no.  The cop hit his light bar for a few seconds.  Then they both got out. 

Based on my experience in fire and EMS, I can tell you that the one and only purpose of hitting the lights in that instance was to let the guy know that it's time to put it back in your pants.  The cops are here now, and we don't want to arrest you, so please give us an easy out.  They're saying, "Work with us, bro."

I called dispatch and gave them my name and number anyway, and continued on my way.  I did what I was doing for two hours.  Checked my phone.  SURPRISE!  I hadn't heard from them.  I knew they weren't going to do anything.  But I'm just too old for this shit now.  When I call them about people parked across the sidewalk they come out and ticket them every time, you know?  But this is no problem. 

So I called back and asked why they hadn't done anything.  I was notified that the man had advised the police that he had a skin condition, and he was simply scratching himself.  So he was advised not to come back to that location.

That's the solution!  Just have him go jack off elsewhere, problem solved.

I'm actually much more concerned about it now that I know it wasn't his own front porch.  Think about how aggressive that guy actually is, that he strolls up onto other people's front porches to do that.  It's one step from breaking in to engage the occupants sexually.

Unfortunately nothing about any of this surprises me.  Welcome to rape culture, all day, every day.  This is the greatest example of how "he-said, she-said" can never fail.

RECAP:

• Someone sees a man masturbating; this is self-evident to them.  They call 911 about it.
• I walk past and see the same man masturbating; this is also self-evident to me.
• I report this to the police using body language only.  My report is self-evident to them.
• The police confront the man, and he gives a ridiculous excuse.
• The police don't interview the other witness.
• I'm willing to bet they didn't document any skin condition, because they don't want to take pictures of his erect penis.
• Three against one, we all knew what we saw.  Yet the one with the most to lose is allowed to defeat the other three.  Because "he-said, she-said" makes police work disappear like magic.

Well, it had to happen.  A documentary called Justice by Doug Liman opened at Sundance, looking at even more complaints against Brett Kavanaugh that never got investigated.  They had to announce it at the very last minute, and show it under tight security for obvious reasons.  This entire country is armed and dangerous, especially the right side.

Because the one thing you're not supposed to do in America, you're most especially not allowed to say that Kevin (or "male Karen" as he's known in the common parlance) did anything uncool with his junk.  Everything Kevin does with his wiener is fine, on both sides of the aisle.

Business Insider:

"Asked what he originally hoped would result from the film — further investigations or other impacts — Liman said what happens after the film is "so beyond my control," adding, "We live in a climate where, no matter what we put in this movie, it is likely that the people that support the status quo are going to keep supporting it, and I sort of came to the answer for myself: Maybe the truth matters. It matters now, it'll matter in the future, and maybe that's it."

Hey, if it's that hard for a filmmaker to even talk about it after the political firestorm has ended, if Doug Liman is freaked out about his lack of agency, just imagine being the one who got assaulted and trying to come forward because you got harmed.

Nobody in American politics seems capable of conceptualizing rape as an actual crime, like an assault that needs to be dealt with on an interpersonal level.  For them it's all some theoretical bullshit, just an improvised political explosive device that they can manipulate and toss.

This is why Biden-Harris, and all of their supporters, will never be anything but scumbag rape-troll bullies to me.  I voted for him because first Anita Hill, then Angela Davis said it was imperative no matter how we feel.  The Democrats twisted my voting arm until it snapped.  I voted for the blue rapist over the red rapist.  I will never vote again.

Biden got less investigation than Kavanaugh.  He then went on to say "I have nothing to apologize for," and made consent jokes all down the campaign trail.

His campaign and its followers -- The Krassenstein brothers, Joan Walsh, Amanda Marcotte, and Michelle Goldberg (who now apparently lives in Ari Melber's green room) -- trashed Tara Reade rather than looking at the very obvious problematic behavior of the senator from my credit card.  The amount of rape trolling I personally took from the K-Hive based strictly on my race and gender was inexcusable.  With friends like them, I don't need Republicans.

NOTE TO THE DEMOCRATS:
Rape culture is not like being chased by a bear.  You don't need to be just slightly better than the other team.  One day somebody's going to make a documentary about Joe, brace yourselves.

Hell hath no fury something something.

Apparently this is becoming a thing, guys going to some place of business to abduct the women working there.  Fortunately it's not working out for them.

Like the guy who attempted to zip tie a barista and drag her into his truck, someone else tried to wrangle a Lowe's employee into his vehicle.

This incident was also apparently planned in advance, as he parked near the back door.  Another horrifying video.  Thankfully a coworker prevented the attacker from making off with her.

I wish I was making it up.  The barista is okay, he didn't manage to pull her into the truck. And the suspect is in custody. 

Men just don't have to live this way, in this kind of fear from other men every minute of every day.  Men don't randomly snare each other like wild game.

VICE News does some really good work, not just ace reporter Elle Reeves. 

In this documentary, they take a look at what a shit show the Louisville Metro Police Department has been.  It's about 45 minutes long and definitely worth watching.

I wrote about the case of Emery Taylor, a gas-station employee who was groped by an on-duty, uniformed LMPD officer who was coming in often and following her around the store on a regular basis.  He was given probation only, and there was no mention of him losing his police powers.  In other words as far as I know he could be rehired at another department despite being videotaped repeatedly stalking and sexually assaulting Emery Taylor at her place of work -- in front of multiple witnesses while on duty and in uniform.

So it shouldn't shock you that after a woman called and complained that she was tired of this one detective hitting her up for blowjobs every day, they didn't go into high gear.  She didn't follow up, so they dropped the ball.  There were multiple clues, from various angles, that apparently didn't prompt any sort of serious response.  Like with Ferguson, Missouri, things were very bad for a long time before  the Justice Department stepped in.

In the Daniel Holtzclaw case, there was one victim that came forward and the detective, Kim Davis, took it serious like cancer.  The video evidence didn't show any of the activity, only the time stamp.  It showed them out there on that deserted road for way too long to be doing the nothing in particular Holtzclaw claimed they were doing.

Holtzclaw relied upon the same sort of nudge nudge, wink wink, that the multiple serial predators in Louisville clearly relied upon for years.   And unfortunately for himself, it wasn't available in Oklahoma, at least not with Davis.  Because Holtzclaw's version of events didn't make sense, and his survivor's did, according to nothing but the timestamp and common sense.  When I watched the Holtzclaw interview I could tell he was guilty just because his story didn't add up and hers did.

Anyway this VICE documentary is tough to watch, when you see how brazen the Louisville crew was, and all the disgusting games they ran, Holtzclawing left and right.  Highly recommended when you have 45 minutes.

Back in 2006, a Boca Raton tanning salon employee ran to a nearby pizza shop in tears.  She said a customer had grabbed her, kissed her, and tried to rape her. Despite plenty of evidence for probable cause, the prosecutor decided not to follow up.  I mean there are verified stories of on-duty police officers repeatedly groping gas-station employees on camera and only getting probation, so I shouldn't be surprised.

Everything about this predictable story makes me sick.  "He said, she said" is a thing because men run law enforcement.  Are there not security cameras in tanning salons?

This article discusses behavior that could certainly be independently verified if investigated, including that McMahon allegedly showed this employee nude pictures of himself on his phone.  But this happened in Florida, the same state currently housing Jair Bolsonaro, where Jeff Epstein got his super sweet deal from Trump's other buddy Alex Acosta, two years after this incident.

The Daily Beast

"McMahon, who was married to wife Linda, now the chief of the Small Business Administration for President Donald Trump, strongly denied the allegation at the time. He did not respond to requests for comment for this article."...
"A handful of 2006 press reports remain online (Woman, 22, Says McMahon Tried Too Many Moves), but many others have disappeared or can only be found on forums where they appear to have been pasted without permission."

Here's what really pisses me off, the way this young woman at her minimum wage job was expected to deal with an alleged geriatric groper who was close friends with the POTUS.

"Clear [the manager] said the woman started to cry on the phone as she told her that an “older gentlemen followed me into a room and tried to kiss me.”

The attendant asked Clear if she should call the police, but Clear urged her not to and told her she was coming to the salon. When she arrived, she saw a man sitting in a black Hummer in the parking lot and a Papa John’s employee in the salon, she told police.

McMahon’s accuser then showed Clear how she used her hands to push him off of her and said this happens to her “all the time,” according to the documents."  [Emphasis added]

I can't imagine managing some shitty tanning salon, having some young girl call me in tears like that, and telling her not to call the police because I'm on my way over there to make it all go away.  But that's why I'm socially marginalized.  God bless the woman Kobe Bryant admitted raping.

 Exactly like the title says.  Apparently after jerking the survivors around for years, now Ron Jeremy doesn't recognize his attorney and there's no sign that he's faking it.  How nice for him.
LA Times

"Jeremy, who has denied all wrongdoing, is scheduled to appear in a Hollywood courtroom Jan. 17, when he will be formally declared incompetent to aid in his own defense" [emphasis added]

"Some of Jeremy’s relatives apparently suspected he suffered from dementia before his 2020 arrest, “which was the catalyst that started the process that resulted in his driver’s license being taken away,” Thompson wrote in the email.Once declared incompetent, Jeremy will probably be placed in a state-run hospital.

Lianne Young, a former British adult film star who first publicly accused Jeremy of assaulting her in an interview with The Times in 2020, said she was frustrated to learn there were concerns Jeremy had dementia long before prosecutors brought charges against him.

“My first reaction, I was kind of numb,” she said. “They were aware of his condition before getting us all involved. They were well aware he had dementia, so I’m very disappointed that they didn’t solve that bit before letting us go on that emotional journey for 2½ years.”

Yeah, I hate the way so many of us have to live with letting alleged perpetrators win pretty much every time.  Maybe Bill Cosby will spoon feed him some pudding.  Sorry to hear it.  At least Harvey's still in jail on his gouty feet. 

"Young said she was wearing a bikini at an industry party at the former House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in 2000 when Jeremy came up behind her, shoved her against a table and forced himself inside her. The encounter lasted only seconds, according to Young, who said she fought him off quickly. "

A Tinder date that started in Maryland allegedly turned into a human trafficking nightmare for one woman.  She ended up being tattooed with some scumbag rapper's name and jumping out of a moving vehicle on an expressway to escape the beating she said she was undergoing when she didn't want to continue working as a prostitute in Florida.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a true gift to the world, doing God's work.

On September 1, 2022, NCMEC forwarded 14 separate tips about a single suspect to the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations.  That subject was identified as Kevin Etherington, who was at that time employed as the Assistant District Attorney for Payne County.

Side note, I hate it when governmental entities put out their official statements on Facebook, but here you go.  Here is another link on Law & Crime.  From L&C:

"A sworn affidavit of probable cause obtained by Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, investigators recovered “at least 153 videos, screenshots, and photos of prepubescent girls being sexually abused and exploited” from an account alleged to belong to Etherington. The account’s IP address and the email address were both directly connected to Etherington, OSBI said."

It occurs to me that if women were more proportionally represented in law enforcement there would be a lot less of this crap going on.  The US has always excluded women from exercising power, since making us subordinate in the constitution -- a classification which remains as of this writing, at the end of 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_the_United_States:

"The Center for American Women and Politics reports that, as of 2013, 18.3% of congressional seats are held by women and 23% of statewide elective offices are held by women; while the percentage of Congress made up of women has steadily increased, statewide elective positions held by women have decreased from their peak of 27.6% in 2001. Women also make up, as of 2013, 24.2% of state legislators in the United States. Among the one hundred largest cities in the United States, ten had female mayors as of 2013.[10]"

 So I feel like having law enforcement be the non-stop sausage party that it always has been is one part of the problem.  A lot of good police are men.  But having them running every show every time is part of the problem. While not all men are sexual abusers, 95% of sexual abusers are men.  Just putting it out there.

Emery Taylor is a manager at a gas station in Louisville, Kentucky.  See the report here.

The place she works at offers free coffee to law enforcement, which is not unusual.  When I was a paramedic we all went to the place that gave us free coffee, which was ingenious because we also fueled up those diesel trucks.

Officer Robert Neff is seen on security footage in the store Taylor runs, tying Taylor's hands behind her back.  He goes on to sexually manhandle her, as though nobody could see them.  Lord knows what he does on patrol, when he's not standing under security cameras.

Taylor had already alerted coworkers that she was uncomfortable with Neff, who came in often and wanted side-hugs.  He had repeatedly tried to give her a phone number.  That's why a coworker immediately rushed to her side and attempted, unsuccessfully, to dissuade Neff from kissing and groping Taylor on the two occasions caught on security tape.

Taylor had no interest whatsoever in Neff.  She couldn't understand why he continued to pursue her.

As an old woman I completely understand.  It's very simple:  She happens to have whatever physical attributes turn him on.  Simple as that.  Nothing to overthink.   Maybe it's her lovely figure, or her red hair, or both.  There's  a reason people wear hijab.  It's the fact that she's a good enough person not to have stabbed him by now.  Not at all blaming her, she's awesome and he's IMHO criminally insane, and the world apparently isn't very bothered.

It's painful to watch the report for many reasons, not the least of which is Taylor struggling to make sense of why she in particular was targeted.  "Why me?" she asks in tears.   She's looking to find the fault in herself that made her the target, how she's to blame.

When that isn't it at all.  It's that he has lost his damned mind.  And she had the particular package that he likes.  That's all.  If the other girl's thing was the one that makes his dick hard, she would've been the one he grabbed, or the black one.  That's all.  That's literally all.   

There's nothing for Emery Taylor to cry about on that level, of why he picked her to bully like this.  She wasn't the weakest one.  She was the one he personally found the hottest.  And he's out of his damned mind.  He thinks he can do whatever he wants with his dick because he can take people into custody and order them around like a game of Simon Says gone mad.

This on-duty officer followed the manager around the gas station for over two hours, think about that.  Followed her into the back room, and is seen on camera groping her.

He has got to be stopped, and I'm not sure his local law enforcement community has the appetite for it.  Because he got a very dainty little wrist slap, probation only, for stalking, harassment, multiple unlawful restraints and sexual assaults, in front of bystanders in a gas station, on videotape.  He did all of this while in uniform and on duty.  Not one day of jail time.  

His fellow officers apparently aren't that bothered, in other words, because Neff was allowed to resign.  So he'll get another police job.   I'll be surprised if Kentucky revokes his police powers just because they can see the videotapes for themselves and he pled guilty.

They're tossing the survivor some chump change and telling her to go away because their policeman did those things while on the clock.   And those are her options.  I think they gave her $55,000.

Emery Taylor wasn't looking for money, jokers. Plea bargaining is brutal on the survivors, I don't know if people understand

At the end of the day Future Officer Neff is not safe for a badge or a gun.  He's loose in the goose.  Louisville and Robert Neff both screwed Emery Taylor over.  Justice failed here.