(On the Brock Turner case)

Why can't I blame the victim for showing a complete lack of commonsense? Was he the first man to ever take advantage of a woman's inebriated state? There have been these situations for as long as there has been human beings consuming alcohol. Stop coddling these victims. They do need to take responsibility and not put themselves in vulnerable situations.

That young man's reputation is ruined for the rest of his life. He is now permanently on the sex offenders list. And no matter what he ends up doing for work, he will never get any endorsement deals or become top management for any company. He will be a pariah wherever he goes.

I think that you are jealous of this boy's previous status as a "golden boy". You are jealous that he was smart enough to get into Stanford and could have had the perfect life... shrug.

Had she been my daughter, I would be mad at her for going to a college party and getting so drunk. And when I was going to Brown University in the late 1970's, I knew better than to go to the keg parties at the frat houses. And I also, know that any compliments from a man at a party like that or at a night club was more an effort to get into my pants than actually wanting to get into a relationship with me and become my boyfriend or husband. I was also able to get backstage at many rock concerts in the 1980's. And since I stayed sober and drug-free at these gatherings, and no one ever tried to sexually assault me.

And back to chaperones... well the human brain isn't fully developed until the age of 25. The frontal cortex is the last to develop and that where the decision making process is. And it's why males before the age of 25 have such high auto insurance rates. Young men are prone to making bad impulsive decisions. Add to that, men are just more sexually motivated creatures than women. That's just a fact of life.