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ABORTION DENIED: SHATTERING YOUNG WOMEN'S LIVES (TBS, Dec. 7, 10:05 p.m. EST). Ted Turner, who has enraged antiabortionists before (he once called them "bozos"), courts another outcry with this pro-choice documentary focusing on the issue of parental consent...
Stereotyped notions about men and women and "normal" sexual and personal relations between them have blurred the boundaries where violence begins. Once upon a time, "consent" had very little to do with what a woman wanted. Only one person was expected to consent...
...even today, because women are expected to say "no" at first--even when they don't mean it--rape can't really happen when the man and woman know each other. A nice woman would never vocally consent, but that doesn't mean she didn't want...
...Massachusetts that without genuinely mutual consent, sexual intercourse is rape and is a felony. Specifically, the Massachusetts statute states that sexual intercourse obtained through force or threat of force or against either party's will is considered rape...
...John spent his last years caricaturing himself in films. Lionel was ignored by the studio he helped build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel lived in reduced circumstances. Katharine Hepburn...