What’s much more statistically likely is that the accuser has a behavioral/mental health condition (think borderline personality disorder).

That was what he said. According to him, women make less money because they’re less motivated to do so because men don’t find women who make tons of money attractive. Whereas women find men who make large salaries more attractive, so men work harder and are better rewarded. There are all kinds of problems with his…

Can I ask, how are you watching this? Are you in the US? Because I can’t find it here.

It’s not a disease. It’s wish projection. It’s wanting to believe you’re a good person and still engage in heinous behavior. Give me an honest scoundrel any day.

My friend is a good person because he’s a good person, not because he’s gay. He’s accepting of women and people of other religions. He’s the polar opposite of the woman in this article and, actually, you. And because he’s an ethnic Kurd, he has at least as much reason to hate ethnic Turks as you do. He just hasn’t…

Really? All one billion of them are not accepting? What about my gay Turkish friend and his family? Are they more or less accepting than Christians? How about antitheists? What about people who think tolerance is a tit-for-tat thing and not a moral imperative for actual ised human beings?

It’s very popular in our area, too. The reality is that many US hospitals don’t provide much in the way of nursing attendance anymore, so if a patient is confused or needs help with self-care, the family has to provide it.

I think the problem arises because so many people have been much more interested in saying it’s theoretically ok to have sex with your father than in addressing the circumstances here. In this situation — even if she hadn’t been drunk — it seems pretty obvious that there’s a power differential between a confused 18…

And the father, who was allegedly raping his daughter when the other guys jumped in, has been victimized in some way. I haven’t read my Leviticus lately, how many shekels is the dad owed?

It is absolutely our business. She was heavily intoxicated. We’re so quick to appear open-minded about incest, we’re forgetting the basic tenets of consent here. Replace “dad and random passers by in a public park” with “date and frat brothers/fellow sports players at a party.” We (justifiably) get all over these…

It’s only relevant to the extent that the father’s story becomes less credible. Suddenly he’s not this poor beleaguered guy who was turned away by uncaring shop workers as he desperately sought help for his daughter. He’s a co-offender with as much motive to lie as the other rapists. And I think it’s only fair of the…

She was heavily intoxicated. She couldn’t consent to sex with anyone. If this had been a woman raped by a high school classmate at a drunken party, you’d all be crystal clear on who was at fault. But because it was her dad in a public park in the middle of winter, suddenly it’s all “not what I’m into personally, but…

She never said the daughter wasn’t raped. She said the dad’s story seemed weird. You insisted on putting words in her mouth.

And all the “victim blamer” accusations lobbed at anyone who questioned whether the dad’s story seemed weird...

Including the rapist who is her father.

Really? You’re good with the whole sex-with-dad-while-drunk-was-consensual thing? Just another benign way in which we quirky humans work out our sexuality?

Yeah, I get no joy from that. And it makes me sick that the police find it relevant the victim has mental illness and was combative. It’s the only understandable thing in this whole situation.

I didn’t say he was LYING. I questioned whether his story was both complete and accurate. Why wouldn’t it be? Well, gosh, let’s start with the fact that he was drinking. That might affect his perception and memory. I’m sure you’re now going to insist that this man is, unlike every other human on the planet, immune to…

Yeah, maybe read the million or so articles on this website that discuss how “exceptions” for sexual assault really aren’t exceptions at all given that they put the burden on rape victims to prove they have, in fact, been victimized before receiving needed medical treatment. Which is going to be something of a problem…

Do you know these people? Because you are WAY invested and certain in your responses to a person who simply questioned whether the father’s story was both complete and accurate. It’s not a cognitive distortion to think there could be more to the story of a parent who drinks with an underage child in a park, then…