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If you look at pictures of Rapp from then, it's pretty clear he was not yet pubescent, so nope.

Are you aware that "court of law" proof varies in criminal versus civil cases? In criminal cases you need to prove something "beyond a reasonable doubt" and the presumption is of innocence. In a civil case, there is NO presumption and the standard is "preponderance of the evidence." If you bring a slander/libel claim about something, you have to be able to prove that it was false, AND that the other person knew it to be false. Since the nature of this allegation is that you can't prove it either way, a slander/libel case is unwinnable.

No, it's outing regardless. The person having worked against gay rights is when certain people like Michael Signorile declared outing was acceptable. The definition of the term is exposing their hidden homosexuality.

He's saying the percentage is not as low as the official stats indicate. The point of all this #metoo stuff is that a lot of women have kept it to themselves.

Dementia isn't just Alzheimer's. There is also vascular dementia caused by poor blood flow. Seems likely that given the increased heart risk that's what it is.

He's pointing out that the ratio of perpetrators is quite likely overstated as when the female is the perpetrator it's likely not reported or taken seriously if it is.

Fairytale is simply too small a venue for the size of the crowd is the root of the problem. Not much that can be done about that except maybe limiting the number of dancers, but that then limits the pool drawn from for the other events.

Based on Spacey's reply there's not really much likelihood that it didn't happen. The standards for thinking he did it are not the same as the standards for criminal conviction in a court of law. Nothing will be "proven" to that standard. What evidence is there of something like that? All we know is Rapp did apparently tell the story to several other people over the years, all of whom have confirmed that he told them this. Is it POSSIBLE he made the whole thing up? Well, yes, it's POSSIBLE. Is it likely? Hell to the no.

Perving on children is not typically a one-off. Sorry, it's not something to keep private. There's really no ambiguity in what Spacey did.

Also, he's a pitcher, and there are tradeoffs between muscle mass and flexibility/range of motion for most people. Wouldn't do him much good to add 30 lbs to his bench press if it took 10mph off his fastball because he couldn't move his arm back as far in the windup.

Baseball is much more about eye-hand coordination than musculature. I mean, a lot of the players do work out these days but there are still some downright chubby professional ballplayers.

And he's expressed regret for not speaking out sooner. Do you really expect people to risk all their hopes and dreams when the odds are quite good that it won't help anything and will in fact hurt? Had he said something back then, it likely would have been dismissed and he may never have found work again. Failing to be exceptionally brave is not the same thing as selfish. By your standard then, everyone is selfish for not giving up all their possessions to help the poor.

Anthony Rapp has a successful career. What does he possibly have to gain from this? And since the allegation is occurring at the time he says it, not at the time of the events in question, he IS exposed to a suit for slander by saying this. Kevin Spacey can't be touched for what he allegedly did at this point. If he were some underemployed 40something coming out of the woodwork, yeah one might question the motives. And did you look at the fucking pictures of Rapp from back then? He was 14, but he looked like he was 10 years old. I imagine he's coming out now in hopes of preventing Spacey from doing it again.

I couldn't get past them needing a loan for something like $15,000. Grace was a CEO, both their exes were highly successful lawyers, they own a beach house that's got to be worth seven figures minimum, and they don't have $15k lying around the damn house?

For a lot of married guys in the city, the gym steamroom is pretty much the only place they can get away from their wives. Also those encounters are (usually, unless the gym is deserted and nobody is coming in) extremely brief and not necessarily even to completion.

The religious life appeals to many people because life is complicated and having some strict rules to follow does, for many, simplify things. Too many choices really is paralyzing for a lot of people. As long as they aren't imposing that lack of choice on me that's fine. Ultimately it's not really different from someone saying "I will control my weight by only eating between X am and Y pm and never eating A,B,or C."

The chicken pox vaccine was announced in the spring of 1984 - I know this because I was home from school with it when I saw it on the news. I was in seventh grade and was one of the last people to get it.

Still double doors but don't think you're fooling anyone. The towels aren't so long that you can't see that there are four legs...

I believe everything came to a screeching halt at Luxor once MGM fully took over the property. While they already owned it when I first went there, I think operations were still run differently for a few years.

Definitely not. It wasn't much later than that happened that they stopped being open 24/7 and also suddenly the masseurs were fully draping. They even redid the steamroom taking out a corner people could tuck away in and not be too visible from the door. And redid the shower doors - previously there were double doors that went all the way to the floor and between the two of them were opaque enough that guys would occasionally double up in the shower and get away with it. Then they took out the inside door and made the outside door smaller and clearer.

EVERY gay man should get Hep A and B vaccinations. The new shingles vaccine is recommended for everyone over 50 and they ALSO said even if you got the old one, you should still get this one because it's so much more effective.

Well my brother smokes a lot of pot and is paranoid. Lots of people make the false association because the time the symptoms become clear to everyone, not just those with training, is around the time these shots happen. But I had noticed when the kid was only six months old that he didn't look anyone in the eye and wasn't very responsive to what other people did. My brother will swear up and down that he spoke his first complete sentence before the MMR and then a week later never spoke again. There was also apparently some case of a massive dataset that was initially to be used in a study being accidentally destroyed, and no longer available for review, and that set the conspiracy theorists on it.

My brother is a freaking antivaxxer because he has an autistic kid. And he swears the HPV vaccine caused some terrible reaction in a cousin of ours who had to be taken to the hospital unable to walk within weeks of getting the first shot. This is a cousin who was so thin I strongly suspect anorexia/bulimia and timing was coincidental.

Sorry when you're doing it in a public place, and accommodating a shared amenity in that public place to do so, you have no reasonable expectation of being left to monopolize it. If they want privacy they can take it to a hotel or their place.

That's why you foster. Lower expectations, YOU get paid, and you can send 'em back.