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I’ve never seen the Toy Story 2 bloopers before. What the fuck, Disney? How was in this a kid movie in the first place? Was it Lasseter trying to confess?

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Disney has made millions (probably billions) in the last 20 years by making movies with 2 levels of humor. One for the kid and one for the parent who was dragged to the movies by the kid. With the changing culture I don’t doubt that some attempts at adult humor in these movies is now seen as stepping over a line.

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Where do we rate this compared to having a penis on the cover of The Little Mermaid?

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Asking the real questions.

Also that is one of my favorite stories ever so cheers!

E: the subversive wang, not the awful regressive take on not Hans’ greatest work in the first place

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In related news:

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Good news, about time that filthy nonce faced justice

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I think I knew that many police departments weren’t exactly diligent at pursuing rape cases, but I didn’t think it was this bad:

One sample from the start:

Eric Eugene Wilkes was known to Detroit police for robbery and carjacking. Not for rape. Yet Wilkes’s DNA was in boxes scattered throughout the warehouse, even as he walked free. His DNA first arrived there more than 18 years ago, after he raped a woman waiting for a bus on December 26, 2000. It next appeared after another rape four months later. Three days after that, police shelved the untested kit from his third victim.

One can imagine a certain rhythm to the process, as police hoist kit after kit onto the metal shelves, not knowing that they hold in their hands the identity of a serial rapist. Here’s the evidence box from a deaf woman Wilkes assaulted in June 2006. There’s one from a woman he raped in May 2007. The kit from his sixth victim arrived in June 2010. Another a month later. Two more in August 2011. His 10th victim, four months after that. Not until he raped his 11th victim, in January 2012, did the sequence end, because that woman saw Eric Wilkes two days after the assault and called the police, who arrested him. Eleven years, 11 violent rapes—all while Wilkes’s identity was preserved in sealed containers that no one had bothered to open.

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Would they have been able to match his DNA to the rape samples? I am thinking that testing would have revealed a serial rapist but not the identity?

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I guess it depends on whether they already had DNA on this guy from his other crimes. Even if they didn’t, one thing processing these shelved kits has revealed is that there are a lot more serial rapists out there than previously thought, and that men who rape their acquaintances also tend to rape random women. So if they get DNA from a case where the police can identify the guy in question, they could link that to potentially a lot of other rapes.

If they actually tested the kits.

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I doubt it’s any hostility or disbelief of the victims. I think many police departments are disorganized in their investigations. We just had a serial child predator charged for a 1993 murder. The guy had done prison time for sex offenses against children and lived a quarter mile away from the victim. He was never interviewed at the time. And this was an infamous case back in St. Louis in 1991 and the police had a big manhunt trying to find the killer. It was all over the news and there was a sex offender on parole right there. Now they have matched him via DNA and he will be tried.

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But in private conversations afterward, he says, it becomes clear the message didn’t sink in: Officers continue to tell him they think that many women lie about being raped, and that their claims aren’t worth investigating. “This is that sort of intractable belief that we could not seem to shake.”

Right in the article.

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I don’t think it’s personal hostility. I think it’s the kind of common institutional failure that was described in The Wire (but applies in all sort of organisations). People working in the system and trying to make ends meet and not to rock the boat and after a while you’ve got 10 or 20 thousand rape kits sitting in a warehouse gathering dust. It take some external force or someone willing to be disliked and a royal pain in the ass to get things done.

Hopefully things like this article would change the culture where they just don’t believe enough to follow up on these cases. The article lists some really harrowing examples.

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For the cost of Trump’s golf, thus far, they could process every rape kit in the entire country.

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Prosecutors dropped the charges also.

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Does this mean we’re cool with him again or is he still persona non grata? There were a lot of bad things being pointed at Spacey beyond that lawsuit.

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And then there was that weirdo video he released. I don’t know if he broke any laws to the point that it can be proven, but… there’s something wrong here. His presence certainly won’t draw me to a show or movie again.

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I believe there were 15 other allegations that predate this.

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That’s what I thought but could not recall. Sounds like Spacey is still very much persona non grata and should be (if allegations are true.)

Did I miss that?