You know we have a real problem in our society when these women haven’t been able to come forward with these allegations until the press have contacted them.

If they fear coming forward after being assaulted by someone who is hardly discreet about being a sexual predator, what must it be like for the victims of more outwardly respectable public figures?

Touché

Even if this isn’t the most dangerous of challenges it’s still incredibly pointless and uninspired. Are there any that aren’t?

I’ve not seen a lot of coverage of this in the English press but his mother also shut herself in a church and went on hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of the poor boy.

If the only people defending you in this type of case are your mother and Woody Allen then I think you can safely assume you’re in the wrong.

These challenges are awful in absolutely every way. It’s hard to think of a more senseless way to go.

Are there any social media “challenges” that are actually funny, entertaining or creative rather than just being unpleasant and/or dangerous?

You won’t find any of those things in any reputable IQ test. I’d be surprised if you found them even in a bullshit online test.

Maybe you just had a particularly bad experience and it has given you a false impression of what an IQ test is.

This isn’t true at all. IQ isn’t some magical catch-all measure of a person’s intellectual ability, but it’s not entirely total quackery either.

I suspect that academic success would be very strongly correlated with having a supportive home life, but IQ not so much. Maybe the gifted kids you refer to were the academically successful ones and not the high-IQ ones?