"Going to Extremes" is a great title, because the truth is that men go to extremes than women do. Men are more likely to be very brilliant than women, and also more likely to be very stupid. On average men and women are about the same, but there are more men at both extremes of the bell curve, while the women tend to…

It would be one thing if there were one or two characters who were like that - I'd still find it annoying but it would be one character with an annoying manic quirk. When they are all talking like that it just screws up the whole tone of the show.

"verbally sparring in the quick-dialogued way that's defined Sorkin's shows" ... this is the main reason why I don't like THIS show. Real people don't talk like that, and listening to it makes me tense. It's unrealistic and annoying.

" ... lots of people do get sexually assaulted at frat parties." I don't have any proof of that, but I tend to agree that it seems likely. I also think more people get assaulted at, say, house parties or dance clubs than at physics lectures. There are toxic elements in most cultures that need to be addressed. It's…

It's from a study by David Lisak. It's not definitive, just an estimate by one researcher.

I only said "ruin" because I was responding to the previous poster: "WOMEN LOVE TO RUIN MEN'S LIVES BY CRYING RAPE." She didn't "ruin" any one specific man's life, but she has had a smaller impact on a very large number of men and women both inside & outside the greek system. So calm your own self down, because I'm…

... and PKP had their house vandalized. There have been a lot of consequences for those falsely accused. There will also be consequences for future accusers - it will be harder for them to be believed.

She's also made it more difficult for future rape victims to be taken seriously - again without naming any names. Maybe you care more about that?

She managed to ruin frat life at UVA without accusing anyone specifically by name. It isn't necessary to name names to have a real effect on people's lives.

"Statistically, between 2% and 8% of reported rapes are found to be false ..." Assuming that only the rapes that are found to be false are actually false is EXACTLY like assuming that only the rapes that are proven in court to be true actually happened. There are a very small number of rape accusations that are PROVEN…

OK, I as a privileged white person would like to let police and other authority types (politicians) know that I am ALSO pissed about the way they are treating POC, and about police shootings & police brutality in general. It's not fair, but it may well be the case that my voice will carry a bit more weight because of…

So are Hanna Rosin & Allison Benedict of Slate also "idiots" for questioning the journalism of this story? Or is it only idiotic if a man questions it?

It is anatomically possible to have sex with 2 (even 3) men simultaneously. Perhaps a significant fraction of her encounters were of this sort?

"5,651 prosecutions for rape ... and during the same period ... 35 prosecutions for making false allegations of rape, ... 3 for making false allegations of both rape and domestic violence."

"Just out of curiosity and to be a bit of a devil's advocate, what would you say if he was, say, stabbed? Or shot? Or murdered? Would we look at this, shrug, and say 'well he consented to let anyone do anything so it's his fault!'"

He can't press charges because calling this "rape" is a joke. LaBeouf could have said "no", gotten up, ended his performance art piece at any time. It was clearly stated to those entering the performance that LaBeouf could end it at any time. It was only "rape" in the sense that a rape scene in a play or a movie (or…

Here's how I think things should work: if a police officer shoots someone who is unarmed in the course of his duties that officer would be immune to legal prosecution, but would automatically lose his job & would never be allowed to serve again as a police officer. Possibly there could be some appeals process where…

If men and women "are" (already) equal then what is the point of "should be"?

"Women" implies that we are talking only about adults. "Girls" implies young or immature women and also sounds condescending. What is the politically correct "feminist" term for referring to women of all ages in your opinion? How do you think this kind of political correctness language policing reflects people's…

There's another positive in this story. Katie says: "I'm graduating early but I missed the high school experience". She's maybe too young to know this now, but graduating early and missing "the high school experience" is AWESOME. High school SUCKS for everybody, and these high schools around Norman Oklahoma suck…