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  • What IS the Age of Consent?

    Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 10:18 AM By E.J. Graff

    Juliet, you're right that what's most offensive about the Jezebels' discussion of Polanski's rape of a 13-year-old is its glibness; the very title of their post, suggesting that exploiting a child might not be as bad as making a movie about that exploitation, Read More...

  • James Bevel's Crimes Against His Daughters

    Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:01 PM By Bonnie Goldstein

    Reading about the current trial of civil rights leader James Bevel , I am experiencing the same conundrum I've always felt about Bill Clinton's piggish behavior toward his wife. Bevel was a companion of Martin Luther King and helped organize the Freedom Read More...
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  • Green Cards for Sex? (Thank You, NYT)

    Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 11:14 AM By Melinda Henneberger

    I am curious about what all those people who think immigrants have such a fabulous free ride in this country think about this New York Times story about a 22-year-old Colombian woman, married to an American citizen, who was informed by a U.S. immigration Read More...
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  • Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, etc.

    Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:25 PM By Rachael Larimore

    Torie, You and Jezebel are right that Heather Mac Donald goes off the rails with her rant against drunk college girls . Which is too bad, because before that, she was making an important point. At first I wondered, why is she rehashing this now? Because Read More...
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  • College Girls Are Easy?

    Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 3:57 PM By Torie Bosch

    In a Sunday column for the Los Angeles Times , Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute questions the incidence of campus rape, which is reported to affect 20 percent to 25 percent of college women. (Penn State, the college I attended, is among the Read More...
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