Posted on 10/27/2026 10:03:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt portrays Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, who listens as his scouts enthusiastically praise an up-and-coming baseball player.
Beane, unimpressed, asks a simple question.
“If he’s a good hitter, why doesn’t he hit good?”
This question should be asked about America’s elite universities, particularly in light of the ongoing Cornell Seven controversy.
If these institutions are, as some describe them, bastions of rape culture, misogyny, and the institutional protection of sexual predators, why do so many young women desperately want to attend them? And why are their parents willing to spend or borrow as much as $100,000 annually to send their daughters into these allegedly dangerous environments?
The Cornell Seven controversy has sparked extensive publicity, protests, political brinksmanship, and accusations that Cornell and other elite universities perpetuate a culture of sexual violence.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speaking in Ithaca in September, declared that “the culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions including Cornell University, and it has got to stop.”
That’s quite a sweeping indictment of America’s top schools.
In American Thinker, I recently reviewed the Cornell Seven allegations, the conflicting evidence, and the importance of due process. Those questions remain unresolved and continue to percolate, so I won’t revisit them here.
Instead, let’s consider something wider.
What do young women actually think about these supposedly dangerous institutions? Not what politicians or activists tell them to think, but what their choices reveal.
Follow the applicants’ walk, not the media’s talk.
Cornell is one of America’s most prestigious and selective universities.
In the 2025–26 admissions cycle, Cornell received more than 72,000 undergraduate applications and admitted 8.4 percent. Nearly 36,000 of those applicants were women.
Women also make up approximately 54 percent of Cornell’s undergraduate student body.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
To be clear, I am not excusing inappropriate behvior. But it’s a far cry from “rape”.
Not to mention that women are 58% of college students.
It’s a matriarchy, I tell ya!
ALL women are bi-polar. It’s just the degree of which is different.
Women in 2026 have proved themselves unworthy of having full rights in a functioning society.
The majority of them want no accountability whatsoever, but claim that they can do anything a man can.
Most of them think support abortion and want a woman that murdered her children to be set free.
Giving them the right to vote was a horrible mistake that has doomed this country.
Listen to what people SAY and then look at what they DO.
Don’t make me sing it...
Ok, Cause girls just wanna have fun.
When I was college age and available, I was not a “Bad Boy.” I did not smoke or drink. Maybe that’s why no girls liked me.
I got my revenge, though. I went to the Philippines and found an excellent wife there.
I was in college in the late 70’s/early 80’s.
I noticed that girls were attracted to the bad boys.
So, for 30 days, I decided to be an absolute jerk to women.
I found myself in a position where many girls were pursuing me at all hours of the day.
After 30 days, I went back to my normal self and they all went away.
Found a good girl when I was 30 and have been married 35 years now.
Fixed it for you
All women are bi-, either bi-polar, bi-sexual, or both.
Never forget that the origin of the Crazy axis on the Hot-Crazy matrix starts at 4.
Wow, I don’t think I could have put on an act like that, for as long as you did. And if I found a wife that way, the marriage probably wouldn’t have lasted.
In my case, my marriage lasted for 39 years, and we were happy most of the time. Of course I have plenty of fond memories. But then she died of three strokes at the beginning of 2025, so now I am alone again.
“familiar childhood dynamics”
Good points—a couple of comments.
If daddy was a bad boy then the role model for men has been set.
The manosphere is also convinced this is an evolutionary feature of human females.
Traditionally human societies (for thousands of years) had powerful rulers who often gained the power through war and oppression of their own people.
Women who wanted to seek both economic security and social status wanted to mate with those rulers if possible. The rulers often had large harems and many mistresses while the average Joe in the kingdom had a tough time finding a wife.
The problem today is the “bad boys” are mostly just useless clowns and not rulers—and offer no economic security in most cases.
Young women have trouble distinguishing between guys who seem like they are “special” and guys who actually have something to offer. Appearances are important.
Since most young women are social creatures—and view the attitudes of their peers as critical to decision making—bad group decisions have a strong impact on most individual women.
The fix has to be at the “group” level—creating radically new and different peer pressure—including emphasis on the important role women have for the future if they can become good wives and mothers.
I had a bet with my room mate.
I won.
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