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Thu May 9, 2013, 01:30 PM

May 2013

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Why Are We Not Calling the Danny Brown Oral-Sex Assault ‘Rape’? [View all] DonViejo May 2013 OP

Is he pressing charges? leftynyc May 2013 #1

Victims of sexual assault frequently decline to press charges. Nye Bevan May 2013 #4

I understand that leftynyc May 2013 #8

Poor Danny Brown. I hope he's in therapy now. Comrade Grumpy May 2013 #2

If he felt assaulted eissa May 2013 #3

Where do you come up with that he willingly accepted it? MattBaggins May 2013 #13

He's said in an interview 'it was cool that that type geek tragedy May 2013 #16

Where is it indicated that he didn't? eissa May 2013 #18

Just read the first three replies and you have your answer CBGLuthier May 2013 #5

It is certainly possible, and it does happen. geek tragedy May 2013 #12

Not true at all, and not what anyone said eissa May 2013 #14

She should have been arrested! hrmjustin May 2013 #6

She sprung oral sex on him? Rex May 2013 #7

Did you bother reading the article? All your questions... DonViejo May 2013 #30

What exactly happened? geek tragedy May 2013 #9

People usually don't label things as rape before the victim does. redqueen May 2013 #10

+1 LiberalLoner May 2013 #11

This is apparently an interview he did. geek tragedy May 2013 #15

I still won't label it for him. redqueen May 2013 #20

I took that to mean he's not trying to brag about it. geek tragedy May 2013 #22

Exactly ismnotwasm May 2013 #23

Yep, exactly. redqueen May 2013 #25

I think this explains some of the confusion: Wait Wut May 2013 #28

That was a teenage boy eissa May 2013 #29

I agree, somewhat. Wait Wut May 2013 #33

Here's an article by a friend of his ismnotwasm May 2013 #17

That had to be a staged stunt or something... Blue_Tires May 2013 #19

Danny is going to obnoxiousdrunk May 2013 #21

did anyone call the police? Enrique May 2013 #24

It is up to the victim to label it assault or rape.... cbdo2007 May 2013 #26

I agree it was a sexual assault Warpy May 2013 #27

Part of it may be that he kept singing while being assaulted LittleBlue May 2013 #31

Okay: Brown was sexually assaulted. Ilsa May 2013 #32