Mountains Or Molehills?

A couple of current events have come to the forefront of our collective social consciousness, and they raise the question of whether they are momentous or merely transient. The first event is the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy. The second is the escapades of the Cornell 7 plus one. The poles of the Lindsay Clancy affair span from a novel legal theory that postpartum depression can induce a temporary murderous psychosis to the general realization that women can’t control themselves under hormonal fluctuations, and so they can’t be responsible for their thoughts or actions. (snip) Do women have agency? Are women sane, rational, and reasonable?