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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

  • Palin Teenage Pregancy.

    What no one is considering here is the possibility that this young girl could have been coerced/pressured by her boyfriend into having unprotected sex. She also could have been raped/incested. And given her mother's zero tolerance stance on abortion, that would mean that the possibility exists that this young girl is being forced by her mother to ...
    Posted to Human Nature by michele.lafferty on October 15, 2008

  • Lucy Caldwell's Misogyny

    It's extremely disappointing to see that Lucy Caldwell is contributing to Slate. It's especially ironic to see that she's contributing to the XX Factor, since her comments in the past have been so hurtful to women. At best, Lucy Caldwell has been insensitive regarding issues of gender and sexuality. At worst, she has been downright ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Hicks House on July 23, 2008

  • Rape is a crime

    9 daughters and how many were raped by their holier than thou daddy? He should go to jail for the rest of his life. His daughters have no doubt been in their own jails all their lives. The man who would be their model for male behavior betrayed them in the worst possible way. I am a feminist who loves men...but not all men, and this is the ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Informationista on April 10, 2008

  • 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

  • The Women's History Boom

    As a student of women's history in the early 1980s, I found this article touched many of the bases with insight and conviction. I do remember running into the fascinating Laura X at one point. While emphasizing her role as an heiress who functioned in absentia from her office, you minimized an important motive that animated much of her historical ...
    Posted to Books by elisabeth on September 5, 2007