Luke Thomas: The Cornell Seven case exposes how sexual violence gets excused when the accused are athletes, fraternity brothers, or celebrities like Conor McGregor. A viewer asks what men should actually do when accused rapists are celebrated as sports heroes, and the answer is more uncomfortable than a simple yes or no.
The conversation moves from the Snapchat group chat at the center of the Cornell fraternity case to the broader culture of impunity in MMA, where fighters hype Andrew Tate and fans shrug at serious allegations. There is a personal story about a female Marine who kept years of harassment to herself, and a blunt argument that most men have no scale for how much women navigate on campuses, in workplaces, and in the military.
Then the case itself: New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Letitia James as special prosecutor, the governor’s own statement signals distrust of the local district attorney, and new evidence keeps surfacing. Whether or not criminal charges follow, the question of what these seven men did to Jane Doe is not a close call.
From there, a harder look at what is ailing young men. Fraternity houses as problem institutions. Porn as the primary sex education of a generation. Political leadership that modeled “grab them by the pussy” to boys who are now in their twenties. And finally, why the right’s response to Cornell lands the way it does, and why the left spends so much energy critiquing centrists instead of MAGA.
Listen to the full conversation over on Luke’s Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/
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Chapters
00:00 Should men boycott accused athletes?
01:24 McGregor, Gable and sports impunity
02:32 A female Marine’s untold story
04:42 False accusations and fraternity houses
05:52 The grab them by the pussy generation
06:42 Due process vs what women face
07:57 Cornell Seven: they preyed on her
09:39 Hochul appoints Letitia James
10:39 Sexual violence is not new
11:21 Why this fraternity chapter should go
12:07 Porn, power dynamics and young men
15:00 The right’s response and MAGA
