Dr. Phil McGraw

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This simultaneously makes perfect sense and none whatsoever. After all, these very same sites implicitly defend brainless, soulless “hookup culture“€ day in and day out via perversely pedagogical personal essays in which our youthful authoresses discover to their astonishment that when two strangers mix mind-altering chemicals and nudity, mutual rapture doesn’t necessarily result.

(These girls could have saved themselves a lot of tears and Kleenex if they’d only talked to me or some other old broad first.)

In my day, “all sex is rape” was the prevailing radical-feminist wisdom. Now it seems to be that “drunk sex is rape””€”or not. There’s some debate about whether or not this latest pronouncement is just a spread-eagled straw woman reeking of tequila, one of those outrageous sexual-politics “rules” that everyone is convinced everyone else is trying to shove down society’s throat (as it were.)

The obvious flaw in this latest slice of puritanical progressive “thought” is obvious, if somewhat embarrassing. (See “old broad,” above.) On his podcast, Adam Carolla asked female comedian Nikki Glaser what she thought of the new “law” that “drunk sex is rape.” Blindsided, she chirped back, “I’ve only ever been raped! I just realized that.” (“I’ve raped myself,” Carolla put in.)

As previously noted, sex and alcohol are the two things on Earth that probably should never be combined, yet that hasn’t stopped men and women from doing so since time immemorial.

Anyway, two individuals stepped up to defend Dr. Phil.

One of them was Rehtaeh Parsons’s stepfather. Glenn Canning wrote on his blog that “It is possible, and very likely, the question was asked in that context”€”sexual assault and teenage drinking. That question needed to be asked….”

The other was Jerry Springer.

Dr. Phil’s afternoon-ratings rival and television’s id to McGraw’s superego, Springer was asked by CNN to comment on the kerfuffle.

“He does a serious talk show,” Springer remarked. “I do a circus. It would be different on my show and maybe not appropriate. In his show, it is a serious issue.

“For them to raise it as a subject on their show, I don’t see what the problem is. It should be discussed. I don’t know why they took it down.”

So here’s a Tweet from me:

When Jerry Springer is the voice of reason, is America crazier than we realized? Yes or no? #whatacountry