Bingo.

Yep. The players can collectively bargain this right out of existence if they want to. Most players won't be tagged and all players presumably (giving credit to the NFLPA for some reason) some other benefits in exchange for the tag's availability.

I agree with much of what you're saying. There is an extra focus on women's sexuality and their "responsibility" to "defend" it. No doubt about it whatsoever.

Well, since I don't disagree with the vast majority of what you've said, I feel I must have misrepresented my position at some point if you think I feel differently. I agree that the discussion needs to be expanded beyond women and rape.

"What you accept is what you endorse." This is demonstrably and logically false. I accept gravity, electromagnetism, and the inevitability of death. I only endorse one of those.

As I said, there is a difference between saying "your conduct is morally blameworthy" and saying "here are some ways to protect yourself from other people's morally blameworthy actions."

I have no such agenda. I am sorry for whatever has driven you to this perception. My point was a narrow one: that telling women to be cautious is still valuable and likely to reduce rapes and that changing the culture won't have a sufficient effect on the number of rapes because rape has existed in pretty much every…

Sorry if it sounds like I am saying that crime prevention is useless, it is not. I spent a few years prosecuting sex crimes crimes against children, so I am both aware that (1) there is a lot of value in pursuing perpetrators and (2) the criminal law is not any individual person's best defense against sexual assault.

(1) The fact that something is already being stated (be aware of the possibility of being targeted for sexual assault) has no bearing on its truthfulness or usefulness. Being mindful of the possibility that other people might harm you is not bad advice just because it's been given for hundreds of years.

I believe that the study concludes that alcohol has no effect on the level of sexual aggressiveness of males. I don't know that it has anything to say about males' baseline sexual aggressiveness.

Nothing I said was disingenuous; that implies that I am not being candid or sincere, which is not the case.. I am sorry if what I said upset you. I do not believe that the prevalence of rape is tied to cultural acceptance of rape, and I do not believe that changing the culture will eliminate rape. Further, I would…

I feel as though your position presumes that there are people who would otherwise commit rape but who can be educated or acculturated to do otherwise. This is certainly correct at the margins. The questions are "how far does this go" and "what do we do about the rapes that remain." Just as there are limits to how…

There is a disconnect between the pragmatic and the moral side of this. Morally, of course all blame should fall upon the rapist no matter how intoxicated a woman is. Practically, it is likely much more effective for women to take precautions than it is to try to "change the culture," whatever that looks like. …

The UCMJ is used for the military for a number of reasons, including that it provides a universal system that applies to soldiers regardless of where they are stationed. States do not have jurisdiction over military bases, even within their borders, and federal criminal law is limited in scope. It seems that people…

Yep. Thanks for stating that so succinctly! Despite the received wisdom of the last 50 years, the courts are not an effective medium for social change. The issues with prosecuting sexual assaults are also not likely to be overcome any time soon; better focus on ways to keep people (esp. women) safe and limit the…

From my (limited) understanding of the bill, it would (1) require civilian review of decisions not to prosecute sexual assault allegations and (2) prevent the military from "overruling" civilian courts on this matter. Since this is a prosecution under the UCMJ that is going forward, it doesn't appear to be implicated.

It seems to me that there are a myriad of issues here.

A good start, but not really there.

What this study is missing is any indication that the refs were responsive to this at all. How big of a story was it? What was the league response? Finding support for their theory with these would help refute many alternate hypotheses for causation. In addition, several alternate hypotheses could also be tested…

The analogy is more like "if I count a million people in a city in 2000 and two million in 2010, did each year 2000 person split in two? Yes, because that was my hypothesis for some reason."