re: The Cut: What Are Fathers Telling Their Young Sons About Cornell?

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Liam is the father of two boys, ages 9 and 11, who play Little League baseball. He’s tried to be involved in his kids’ teams as a way of getting ahead of the kinds of dehumanizing behavior groups of boys can get into. “They’ve had challenging teammates, and we’ve had to talk about how the energy that they bring to teams affects everybody,” he says.”It’s easy for them to get pulled into inappropriate behavior, especially when it’s a team. They hang out for hours. There’s a camaraderie.”

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I can virtually guarantee that Liam consumes soy milk daily and has never played a team sport in his life.

to my son, we've raised you with the right morals and values. act accordingly. be a gentlemen. and from the time they were very young: there are things we can fix and things we can't. don't do anything we can't fix.

to my daughter, never put yourself in such a position.

I tell mine don't mess with her if you ain't married.

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How old are they?

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They are all minors.

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You know who never got #metooed? Tim Tebow.

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As an atheist, the more I watch us move away from time-tested traditional values the more I see the need for them.

You are absolutely correct. I use to scoff at the idea of waiting until marriage before having sex, but without guardrails people act crazy. A woman having sexual contact with that many men in the same night? I'm not saying 100% handmaid's tale, but we could move towards that end of the spectrum a few steps. Or a few leaps. We're pretty out there right now.

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The reason Tebow was insulated from this was avoiding the sin entirely

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That's the point.

Don't engage in premarital sex and you won't get an accusation from an incident like this (and it's harder although not impossible for a wacko liar to manufacture an incident).