Thank you so much for the heads up to your great essay - much food for thought! It seems very difficult to avoid forming an opinion before hearing the evidence in such cases - they have been brutal to both sides over the years.
All I think anyone wants is a far trial.. no leg up, no assumptions, generalizations, or any predetermined bias. We have been sliding down a slippery slope for far too long. Men are not always wrong, just as women haven't been abused far too often.
I don't know if Kobe, a rich dumb jock, did it because I haven't a clue, but this nonsense that we can't cast dispersions on his accuser because women who claim victim hood in sex aren't to be doubted. That is as criminal as it is absurd.