After Cornell: The Wrong Argument & the Right Question 

Editor’s note: Ryan Reeves and Brett Clemmer recently sat down to talk about the Cornell case. Watch their conversation here. Brett has some additional thoughts to share about manhood and the kind of men we’re called to be as followers of Christ.  One of the worst four-word phrases in the Bible is in Genesis 3. When the serpent deceives Eve, the text says she ate the fruit “and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate” (Genesis 3:6, ESV). Adam was right there. He watched it happen, said nothing, and then joined in.  I thought about that phrase when I read about what is alleged to have happened at Cornell. A former student says that in 2024 she was drugged and sexually assaulted by members of a fraternity, as many as seven of them, on a single night. The courts will sort out the legal questions. But most of the public argument has been about consent. (A notable exception from the Harvard Crimson) Could she give it? Did she? Were drugs involved?   As I told Ryan when we talked through the case, I think that’s the wrong argument. Or at least it’s not the […] The post After Cornell: The Wrong Argument & the Right Question  appeared first on Man in the Mirror.