Oct 13, 2026 · 34 min · 14 segments
The Cornell 7 case has dominated social media—but are people rushing to conclusions before all the facts are known? In this episode, Riley Gaines sits down with Paula Scanlan to discuss the…
Riley GainesHost
Paula ScanlanGuest
This is a conversation that, up until this point, on virtually all of my socials and of course on the show, I have yet to wade in on.
And I think, as we're learning, probably for good reason, as we're finding out more information about, um, what actually happened or what it seems as if happened that day based on text messages and things.
And I think this is, is a good conversation for us because you went to an Ivy League yourself.
I just think this whole thing, how is it still continuing to be the majority of what I see in my feed? Like, besides our normal topics that we probably see, my feed is all about this or it's, like, football memes and then it's, like, political things that are going on that are usually in my feed.
I, I don't understand how it's been given this much air time, really, again, for such an ongoing thing.
When Lindsey Clancy was happening, happening, I think I felt similarly, right? How does this one case have all this air time and probably billions of people, I wanna say, like, of views posting about this?
And w- to just be very, very clear and transparent, you know, from the beginning, I mean, let it be known that sexual violence is bad.
Yes, it is prevalent, I would say, on college campuses, probably especially Ivy League.
So I, I don't think either of us are here to say that, you know, to, to- ... you know, do anything other than condemn those things.
But I think what we're getting to is, is this, the Cornell Seven, and what we're seeing online, is this that? Um, we've seen this whole, like, I Am Jane Doe movement online, and the response, um, largely from women following this, similar to the whole I Am Lindsey Clancy thing, to your point.
Um, it was kind of, when I saw this, it was kind of giving black square in 2020 to me.
It was almost like you had to immediately pledge allegiance to one side or the other.
But I think in a topic like this, in a discussion like this with very serious allegations, I think it's okay to not immediately take a side without knowing all of the circumstances, while still saying, as I just said, sexual assault is bad and should be punishable to the fullest ex- extent of the law based on, um, court proceedings and, and how that's determined in a courtroom.
Yeah, the first, the, the fact that we even have to come on here and specify that we think sexual assault is bad and give that as a sort of, a disclaimer before we even dive into this conversation I think shows how far we've lost the plot on a lot of these things.
I've talked a lot on my platform of how I think the Me Too movement has failed in a lot of ways, and I think this is Me Too 2.0 that's really going on here.
I think, yeah, I, I do feel similarly to the George Floyd situation, right? This is a, this k- is looking to me like black square.
This is a conversation that, up until this point, on virtually all of my socials and of course on the show, I have yet to wade in on.
And I think, as we're learning, probably for good reason, as we're finding out more information about, um, what actually happened or what it seems as if happened that day based on text messages and things.
And I think this is, is a good conversation for us because you went to an Ivy League yourself.
I just think this whole thing, how is it still continuing to be the majority of what I see in my feed? Like, besides our normal topics that we probably see, my feed is all about this or it's, like, football memes and then it's, like, political things that are going on that are usually in my feed.
I, I don't understand how it's been given this much air time, really, again, for such an ongoing thing.
When Lindsey Clancy was happening, happening, I think I felt similarly, right? How does this one case have all this air time and probably billions of people, I wanna say, like, of views posting about this?
And w- to just be very, very clear and transparent, you know, from the beginning, I mean, let it be known that sexual violence is bad.
Yes, it is prevalent, I would say, on college campuses, probably especially Ivy League.
So I, I don't think either of us are here to say that, you know, to, to- ... you know, do anything other than condemn those things.
But I think what we're getting to is, is this, the Cornell Seven, and what we're seeing online, is this that? Um, we've seen this whole, like, I Am Jane Doe movement online, and the response, um, largely from women following this, similar to the whole I Am Lindsey Clancy thing, to your point.
Um, it was kind of, when I saw this, it was kind of giving black square in 2020 to me.
It was almost like you had to immediately pledge allegiance to one side or the other.
But I think in a topic like this, in a discussion like this with very serious allegations, I think it's okay to not immediately take a side without knowing all of the circumstances, while still saying, as I just said, sexual assault is bad and should be punishable to the fullest ex- extent of the law based on, um, court proceedings and, and how that's determined in a courtroom.
Yeah, the first, the, the fact that we even have to come on here and specify that we think sexual assault is bad and give that as a sort of, a disclaimer before we even dive into this conversation I think shows how far we've lost the plot on a lot of these things.
I've talked a lot on my platform of how I think the Me Too movement has failed in a lot of ways, and I think this is Me Too 2.0 that's really going on here.
I think, yeah, I, I do feel similarly to the George Floyd situation, right? This is a, this k- is looking to me like black square.
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