Well, if someone cut off my clit I’d be pretty fucking pissed as well. I mean, yeah, she can get a little extreme against Islam at times (and reading her biography it seems that she just has ‘zealot’ temperament that inclines her to take extreme views on whatever cause she takes up) but let’s not pretend like she…

Cmon, that’s disengenous and silly. “It doesn’t matter if the stats have been conflated to 10x the actual numbers, there’s still an issue!”

If stating stats and nothing else is condescending then so be it. I’d rather be condescendingly correct over using incorrect information. I also wasn’t obsessing, that was you. I posted some real numbers with links, and you got upset about it. Also, I’d argue having actual facts is hardly semantics. Either way, have a…

That is horrendous and a nightmare I can’t imagine. With that being said, the statistics are what they are. That in no way makes me a bad person.

Like any other issue. You start with hard, correct facts that paint the issue in a correct light that starts a discussion. It would be disingenuous to say you could start anywhere else on issues that involve millions and millions of people.

No one said rape. This article is misleading just like Stephens is. He says “campus rape epidemic” then reports on surveys regarding “sexual assault,” which are not “rape.”

Good call. He’s made a terrible argument here that I have no interest in defending. And you’re right, I don’t think there’s any room for dissenting opinion when it comes to campus rape, when that dissenting opinion is invariably that it’s an imaginary problem.

The climate change stuff is what really bothers me. The rest of his positions can be debated intellectually. I don’t agree with his conservative views, and find many of them morally repugnant. But intelligent people can have bad values. There’s probably some value to be had in having someone who can intelligently…

I am female and my genitals were mutilated. I didn’t start the equivalency discussion, but you’d better believe I’m not leaving cis centrist views of what constitutes FGM is to stand unchallenged. Simple solution: DON’T BRING IT UP FIRST. I didn’t come here to have this discussion but someone else wanted an unearned…

When I say valiant, what I mean is “well, her heart was in the right place and she genuinely did what she thought was the right thing”.

“She didn’t have an agenda,”

She didn’t have an agenda, other than having an agenda. That’s not journalism, which you then even admitted yourself. Come on.

You’re right I do not, but

I don’t know how you can say there was no agenda when she (A) assumed they were guilty right off the bat (B) made zero effort to verify basic facts about the claims made and (C) lied about speaking to the people she then went on to use as sources in her piece.

Yes, it was believable, because things like gang rape do happen. A lot. A whole fuckton more than we want to believe. Look, it’s not good to assume guilt when the story is false, but it is also not true to assume innocence when the story is true. Both things happen.

How is her heart in the right place when she clearly had an agenda w/the piece and cherry picked things to fit the narrative she wanted rather than letting the facts show her the way? She did not bother to confirm simple details that should have immediately clued her in to the dubiousness of the claims. Again, there…

Right, but there’s a difference between (poor word choice ahead) run of the mill sexual assaults and an ongoing, annual ritualized gang rape. So no, the story wasn’t believable for a reason it was a cultural Rorschach test. For the people who believed the story whole cloth, it confirmed every bias they had against…

Is it really valiant of her to defend a person claiming something as serious as rape when she did so little research for the piece that she didn’t even check to see if the party that the alleged rape supposedly occurred at actually happened, didn’t interview any of the frat members, and apparently didn’t interview…

We’ve come a long way since “‘Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?’ Asks Idiot.”

I’m sorry but I find the notion that sex with a partner is “emotional labor” really disgusting. That is not a healthy way to look at sex. Sex is the context of a committed relationship should never be transactional. The way you frame it is eerily reminiscent of the line of thought misogynists use to justify things…