Dr. Phil treats date rape as a legitimate debate

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37. Not even close...

The article is full of unsupported blanket assertions about what a DIFFERENT question might mean. Let's review. From the article:

"Yikes. In the best possible light, McGraw was likely trying to begin a discussion presumably for fodder on his show about consent. Unfortunately, a social forum where a response can only be 140 characters was just so not the way to go about that. The fact that the question itself promotes rape culture is pretty much the worst..."

The authors admit that this very simple and open ende d question could have been asked for informational purposes, but to hell with all that, this author casually tosses out the "fact" that this question promotes rape.

"Carmen Rios, who shares, “As a former college sexual assault activist who taught about rape and consent and friend to many survivors, I am shocked and appalled by this question. …"

Why? What EXACTLY is so appalling about this very basic question? She doesn't say. Moving along, the Dr Phil show responded as follows:

“This Tweet was intended to evoke discussion leading into a very serious show topic based upon a recent news story, hence the #teensaccused label. It was a poll question, not a statement or a joke. As he has maintained over many years, Dr. Phil believes that the position of those incapacitated in any fashion; be it drugs, alcohol, age or mental illness can not and do not have the capacity to give their consent to anything, especially sex, which could have life changing repercussions. This was a research post in preparation for a show, not a personal post and Dr. Phil deleted it the second he saw it. It was clearly ill-advised. We sincerely apologize that it suggested anything other than what was intended, data gathering. As you can imagine, Dr. Phil is very upset that this happened."

Sounds pretty rational and non-rapey to me. So where does the author of this ridiculous article get off saying that this QUESTION promotes rape? Again, why is he or she so outraged? And that's that. That's the article that clears all this up. And yet the question remains:

What is SO outrageous about this very simple question? Got an answer, because I don't think you do.