Unsurprisingly, many choose to join a gang rather than subject themselves to an endless stream of assault and rape.
Over the last six months or so, we've been hearing an endless stream of assault and harassment allegations, a fair chunk of them going down in these not-quite-work-but-still-with-coworkers settings.
Or consider Lubos Motl, a Czech theoretical physicist who has never published on climate change, but nonetheless keeps up a steady stream of web assaults on scientists he calls "fringe kibitzers who want to become universal dictators" who should "be thinking how to undo your inexcusable behavior so that you will spend as little time in prison as possible".
A blog or website these days is incomplete without a podcast, though some question the practicality of adding yet another modality to the increasingly multi-tiered stream of information assaulting every webgoer.
As we near the end of National Sexual Assault Awareness month, the importance of its message - raising public awareness and improving prevention - is underscored by the continuous stream of sexual assault cases in the news.
There was always a channelling-Howard Beale quality to Olbermann's signature "Special Comment" segments, tightly scripted verbal assaults performed as stream-of-consciousness erudition, and one suspected that Olbermann perceived the crazed Beale less as a cautionary figure than as a role model.
The text is the only visual element, and assaults the viewer at the stream-of-consciousness rhythm of a typical brainstorm between the two artists.
A top Donald Trump supporter compared the stream of allegations of sexual assault against the Republican nominee to a form of torture.
Booked solid for the next six months, Constable Renu said she has never been busier, as anxiety among women and girls grows with a stream of news headlines describing brutal assaults across the country, including recent national outrage after an 8-year-old girl was kidnapped, gang raped and murdered.
Call it stream-of-consciousness shopping.
