"Not all men." You do realize how played out that is, right?

Not all men accused of rape are rapists, but 92-98% are, and that's good enough for me. Add that to the fact that it's 9 or so women in the Gomeshi case and at least a dozen in the Cosby case, and you get something like a 0.000000032% chance that it's all fabrication. I wouldn't buy a lottery ticket on those odds, let…

He's probably guilty. It would be pretty unlikely for so many accusers to be lying. Falsely accusing someone of a crime is a crime; it's hard for me to believe that over 10 women would risk their own freedom by accusing him of things he never did.

it is amazing to me how no one remembers this. I was working for Harrah's when these allegations were made. The allegations are true, they have been around forever, the victims have never backed down and I boycotted anything that had to do with him from that moment on.

That he didn't even have a boilerplate non answer ready for this shows a certain level of arrogance. Even if none of the accusations are true, you still have to address them and to assume no one will ask about them on a national news program, not some softball talk show, is just arrogant and/or dumb.

Honestly, age of consent doesn't even enter into it for me. Even if she'd been 18 (or 16 or 17 in states where that is the age of consent) this should still be illegal because HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS SHOULD NOT BE FUCKING THEIR STUDENTS!!!

Okay. But were any of those older men your teachers? Who had actual power over your life to the extent that refusal could have carried negative consequences even if never explicitly stated? Were you afraid you would displease them or lose their emotional support if you did not consent to sex?

As a trial attorney, prosecutor, and father of two girls, I just don't understand that approach- I'd be afraid to use it for fear of pissing off people on the jury who know that it's total bullshit. The ONLY question from the perspective of the district was whether or not the district bears any responsibility; not…

I can't remember who said it, but someone pointed out that one of the many reasons sex with minors is illegal is even if they act like 'nascent Sharon Stones', they don't have the slightest idea what it means.

Thirteen comments in and we already have a creep in the grays asking ever so innocently why an adult fucking a 14 year old cannot be consensual.

six-month sexual relationship with a student

Let us know when you join the rest of us in the real world. You can start by reading up on age of consent laws and in loco parentis, which make your pathetic sophomoric prose irrelevant.

A 14 year old having an underdeveloped brain is not "pseudo-scientific" fact. It is a fact PERIOD. There's a reason why we have consent laws in the first place: to protect children. The adult in this situation, who's brain IS fully developed and knows very well about the difference between right and wrong should have…

You are oversimplifying things in a way that is distorting what happened here. Can I ask why you ignore the fact that she was a student in your "independent actor" analysis? 14 year olds are required by law to go to school. First, being in this environment in and of itself is not a choice of this girl and that is…

Eww. Just eww. As a JHS teacher, allow me to be very clear: if a student shows any kind of inappropriate interest (and sometimes they do), YOU BE THE ADULT. You tell them it is not appropriate. You arrange for the two of you to never be alone in the same space. You let your department head/supervisor/administrators…

Well of course you can't put people in jail for creepy fantasy. But he did do something. He actually started looking up people's personal information on those databases. The state's argument is that is evidence he went beyond fantasy, into conspiracy, by doing that. It's one I don't necessarily agree with, but it's…

Reminds me of the book "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch. On his website, in words written for children to understand, he explains where it came from:

I don't think the implication was that the housekeepers clean it up for free, I think the reason people are offended is because a university with an incredibly large endowment have chosen to take punitive action against a rape survivor whom they revictimized by finding her rapist (who was also accused of raping two…

Look at it as an added cost of not handling rape cases correctly the first time.

Tuition is ~$50K annually per student. Columbia could proooobably manage the expense on their own.