Why are celebrities rushing to defend convicted rapist Danny Masterson? | Moira Donegan

Danny Masterson was indicted on charges of raping three different women, some of them multiple times.

He was ultimately convicted of raping two of those women; the jury deadlocked on the third case.

Less than 1% of rapes in the US result in a felony conviction for the perpetrator.

Masterson ’s sentencing marks the end of a years-long effort by multiple women to hold him accountable.

Moira Donegan : Kutcher and Kunis ’s letters in support of Danny Masterson can be understood as lying on a spectrum of rape apologism and intimidation of women.

Donegan says society's hypocrisies and dishonest disavowals about sexual violence become monstrously apparent.

She says we have a profound cognitive dissonance about rape: it is formally prohibited, but effectively decriminalized.