Girls Gone Wild

…The plaintiffs were asking for more than $100 million. in damages and punitive costs, and they ended up with zero. When I talked to the jurors, they did not believe that the girls should be enriched for what they saw as voluntary participation in the Girls Gone Wild videos. All that stuff was just about teenage girls.…

…It's never on men not to abuse her. And that kind of thinking, that what men do to women is always the women's fault, is a hop, skip, and a jump from thinking that a girl who wears a revealing outfit is asking for it. Maybe it's not surprising that Joe actually won this civil case, even with an all-female jury. He didn't pay those girls a dime.…

…Eight years after those four women sued Girls Gone Wild for filming them when they were minors, they're in court to settle a civil suit on the matter, the Chateau Motel case. I imagine Joe sitting at the bench, jiggling his knees. He's waiting for the court to start. He doesn't have a lawyer by his side, though. He's serving as his own lawyer in front of an…