text: "and our ethical and emotional need to believe women"
  
  Enlighten me.  Why is there an ethical need to believe women? - the implication being that somehow it is greater than the ethical need to believe men.  Emotional I understand.  But ethical?  Surely the Ghomeshi trial showed us, if nothing else, that our ethical responsibility is to seek the truth.  Listen to the witnesses.  Decide what is credible and what is not.  And reach the appropriate conclusion.  There is nothing ethical about deciding, in advance, that what a woman says is more likely to be true than what a man says.