John F

Ooh, that was a bit predictable.

Well, a “free market” in anything is, by definition, between consenting rational beings and without initiated coercion or fraud, most especially initiated coercion or fraud by the State, which is only supposed to act as an agency of defense and an arbiter of disputes.

And the operative term here is “co…

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A distinction, sure, but eventually and with effort and hope, they all become one of a single piece.

WTF?

Men viewing women as potential sex partners is normal

I cannot be sure but I believe he was referring to things like: someone hitting on someone and not taking five NOs in a row for an answer. Or telling someone to fuck off and the person still bugging you. Or politely putting someone down and that person insulting you or even screaming at you. Or…[Read more]

Enco…you have pretty sneakily shifted the focus from being believed to getting sympathy. Why did you do that?

Thanks, Reg!!

 but is the solution to be running around with suspicious statistics

Again I think you are over-exagerating the extend of how suspicious these statistics are. Perhaps you are simply loathe to believe that sexual assault occurs as frequently as it does.

My point is, when you say “society is changing,” you are talking about some people, some segm…

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Given the size and strength differential of most men and women, that doesn’t seem likely that the claim against the woman would be believed.

There are all sorts of documented cases of women drugging men and raping them. If the facts are known…why wouldn’t they be believed? Statutory rape is also a widely reported phenomena (especially famous c…[Read more]

But minimizing the number of falsely convicted will re-focus time and resources of the law towards bringing the unpunished guilty to justice. Really, both causes are two aspects of the same fight for justice.

Then why Eco do we almost only hear outrage of unjustly accused rapists as opposed to unjustly accused everything else? Not only is the…[Read more]

I think you’re straw-manning the diagram to fit your agenda that feminists, and their scientific integrity, can’t be trusted.

Indeed. It is curious the incredible energy some people put into trying to discredit or simply question the veracity of these statistics (and in very much particular sexual assault statistics). Even if a statistic such as…[Read more]

Unseen it sounds like you are trying to downplay the extremely high numbers of sexual assault, harassment and rape by insinuating that some of it is exaggerated (a pretty common trope throughout all of history that women who claim rape are hysterical and overstating things) or that because a few questionable cases of non-consensual sex are…[Read more]

 Who thinks the presumption of guilt by some court of public opinion is the right thing?

This wouldn’t be such a big deal if “fear of the court of public opinion” was consistently applied to allegations. It is not. Claims are generally believed for most other crimes. They are not for sexual assault or rape. In other words: 20 different people…[Read more]

Ahhh yes. When people are accused of trading fraud, beating their children, theft, assault, libel or murder…we are quick to take the charge seriously (or even believe it). This is most especially the case if 20 different people who don’t know one another accuse a person of theft or fraud. Honestly if 20 people who didn’t know one another accused…[Read more]

If Dawkins had made a casually racist comment then I doubt there would be much controversy. If he made a misogynist comment there would be less controversy. If it was a homophobic comment it would have been sort of controversial. But a trans-phobic comment meets mild controversy. Different kinds of bigotry are met with various levels of…[Read more]

I do think that religious people sometimes have to work hard to suppress atheistic feelings

I would say that this is an endless challenge for the religious. Especially as claims by the churches and their holy books become more and more impossible to defend. Even before the scientific method blew the lid off of the majority of garbage the bible and…[Read more]

Ironically with the Dawkins elevator began in a fairly stupid way:

A woman attending a conference had drinks until 4am with some of the attendees and she had gone up to her room in an elevator one of the male attendees (this was all after a speech and the drinks were in the hotel bar). He very politely suggested having coffee in his room. She…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!