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Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
Just another man writing about how it's "her fault too"
This article is cliche and creepy, and I'm surprised and ashamed to see it in a left-leaning publication. Why do we need another argument by another man shifting blame onto victims, and as he specifies, young girls? Young girls are eroticized enough in pop culture - Slate shouldn't be adding to it. The laws that are currently in place are ...
Posted to Human Nature by yr boyfriend on October 2, 2007