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I reject your rhetorical choice of “aggressive.” Perhaps this a word chosen to distract from the fact that you can’t answer any of my requests. But do go on.

I am not saying (“asking” would be better) that everyone believe her. I am asking you in particular to say why you are confident that he didn’t rape her. If you provide evidence from the record that supports your view that she is a liar, please provide it. (I wouldn’t vote to convict Bryant on the evidence I have in front of me, but I think he did rape her, and to the extent the press coverage has underplayed this it has not done its job. Correct me if I am wrong, but your argument seems to be that “She’s a slut, and sluts lie, so Bryant didn’t rape her.)

In saying this I acknowledge that a criminal trial would require that Bryant be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but we are not engaging in a criminal trial here, and you seem alarmingly adamant that he didn’t do it, for no other reason than because sluts lie.

Do you have any case-specific evidence that he didn’t commit a criminal act, beyond “Well, some other women have lied”?

I am simply requesting that if you don’t believe her account of this episode you give a case-specific reason, taking account of the fact that Bryant admitted she thought it wasn’t consensual and settled a civil case out of court, that given the legal definition of rape, he didn’t rape her.

Oh, and that your reason go beyond “sluts lie.”