Former star baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer releases damning details concerning sexual assault

allegations against him. Donald Trump has to Manhattan to attend his civil fraud trial,

and a person apparently named Taylor Swift is reportedly dating another person apparently named

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So the Me Too movement was predicated on one truth and a lot of lies.

The one truth is that men sometimes really mistreat women, and women don't report that mistreatment out of fear of

retaliation and that men's crimes against women have spanned the generations and been really terrible

and that men have not been sufficiently punished for this. Not as a clasp, like individually.

There are a lot of cases in which men abuse women and that doesn't go reported because women

don't like coming forward with those allegations because then they go through the limelight and men get away with it. All of that is true. And it was particularly true in Hollywood, which is where the Me Too movement originally started because the casting couch is indeed a thing in Hollywood, and that leads to sexual exploitation. This has been a thing all the way since the beginnings of Hollywood. In fact, you don't even have to talk about Hollywood. You can go all the way back throughout human history. And what you see is that men with power very often abuse women. That was then surrounded with a bigger lie. And the bigger lie was believe all women. Me too, which was the idea that virtually all women had been abused at some point or another, which is not true, was then surrounded with an even bigger lie, which is that any accusation was tantamount to a conviction. Anytime a woman said that she was abused by a man, we had to take this not only seriously, which we should, but we had to pretend that no further evidence was necessary or needed. No woman would under any circumstances lie about something like this for any level of gain. In fact, there would be no level of gain that would be concomitant to actually explain why a woman would make a false accusation. Now, there is no other area of human life where we make such a claim. It just doesn't exist, where an accusation is tantamount to prove. We tried to do it a little bit in the United States over the past 10, 20 years with regard to racial allegations. And it turns out that that just incentivizes people to make false racial allegations. This is how you end up with the Jesse Smollett story. Well, the same thing is true with regard to a movement that is predicated on the idea that no matter what a woman says, it must be true regardless of what the evidence shows. Now, there have been a lot of cases of Me Too stories

blowing up in people's faces, me too stories that aren't really Me Too stories being blown out

a proportion. For example, Aziz Ansari, or Me Too allegations that are about a man

acting rudely or badly, but don't really amount to sexual assault, sexual violence.

And again, that sort of conflation, that flattening out of all human behavior

is stupid and wrong. But the worst case that I have ever seen just broke today. This is the case

of Trevor Bauer. So Trevor Bauer is a baseball pitcher. He's earned hundreds of millions of dollars

playing baseball. He was signed by the L.A. Dodgers back in 2021 to a three-year contract worth like $100 million.

And he had been the mainstay of the rotation.

And in August of 2021, suddenly there was an accusation that came out that he had sexually abused a woman.

And this turned into a few more

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