The people who lie make everything harder for the people who don't.

The Rolling Stone UVA problem in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.

The problem - the mechanical problem, not the moral problem - is that we have a civil issue with private implications. It's the exact same bullshit problem as Hobby Lobby and birth control: it's "policy" not "crime." So the schools can argue (correctly) that nothing they say or do does any civil damage to the unjustly accused and that, as private entities, they are free to enact whatever policies they feel are necessary. And then the unjustly accused can argue (correctly) that scuttling any chances of college anywhere due to that policy is, in fact, a civil violation. And then the school can (correctly) argue that Title IX requires them to protect women. And then we can all (correctly) argue that Title IX goes too far. And now all of a sudden we're arguing about Title IX instead of rape.

At some point we need fairness and due process to be determined by something other than market forces. 'cuz what's going to happen is some enterprising kid is going to argue that he's been secretly recording his trysts on a hidden GoPro to protect himself against rape accusations and then the whole thing is going to go in ugly directions nobody wants to see.

I went on the date, by the way. And had I not been left waiting for 45 minutes by the ugliest girl in Spaghetti Factory (her choice) only to be invited to take her to Renfair the next day, I would have stuck my dick in crazy. What can I say? Her high school yearbook picture, which she was using on Match.com, was hawt. Her reality was not. But fuck. I was 25 and still that rash. We're asking 18 year olds to navigate this quagmire?