Your statement about consent is very conclusory though. It’s basically, she can’t consent because she can’t consent. The response to this would obviously be, she can’t consent because a doctor said she can’t consent, but my point is doctors shouldn’t unilaterally be allowed to determine someone’s rights, especially…

I went on a trip to Nantucket with my family when I was 15 and got a book about the whaling industry and the Essex. The only think I remember from the book is that the wives of sailors all had dildos, which they called, 'he's-at-homes.' Good job, New England puritans. I didn't know you had it in ya. Pun ... whatever…

It's not working for me threether, but i'm pretty sure i aced it.

That’s fair.

I think part of it is people are a little skeptical of celebrities that glom onto ‘awareness’ campaigns, since generally you don’t need to be particularly knowledgeable or dedicated to talk about ‘awareness.’ It tends to create an echo chamber where everyone’s yelling that things are important, but no one’s really…

Matt Damon would not hit a horse, you and the author are thinking of Mongo Damon.

All the Pretty Horses was a hit? It cost 57 million and made under 20.

I don’t see how one follows the other...

Um, no it’s not. And considering the first billionaire was in 1916 the further back you go the more suspect this becomes.

So his dad was a billionaire by the 50s or 60s in England, but has no wikipedia page of his own? I’m not saying you made that up, but since I can’t find anything other than simon kirke bios when I google his dad’s name, it seems a little suspect.

Her dad was the drummer for Bad Company. Like, I’m sure he’s doing fine, but I doubt he’s a billionaire.

“Adoption. Murder. Irresponsible. Whiny etc” Let the comments roll.

(not their best work but...)

The thing is, for either narrative, we have to make a lot of assumptions. She was reportedly very affectionate and comfortable around her current husband, so it doesn’t seem likely that he was a stranger to her. Affection, obviously, is not the same thing as consent, but it does suggest a narrative where she is…

The only evidence that a rape occurred here was the doctor’s statement that she could not consent. The times article points out that such a determination is far from an exact science, and that the issue of making such determinations is not without controversy in the medical community. I think there’s a valid question…

I appreciate that, but it’s also possible that sex was something that brought this woman a great deal of comfort, and that she wanted to have sex, and if that’s the case, she should have a right to it.

While I agree that the movie was awful, the times article notes that with Alzheimers, you can be severely impaired one day and significantly improved the next, or fine one morning, but terribly confused by the evening, so it’s really hard to gauge that someone might have been able to consent or not from one moment to…

I like that theory, but I don’t think it’s right.

White elephant in the room?

I think context might help in this one. I suspect he was actually making the the opposite point.