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HAVING BEEN singled out for crtiticism in Jon Eliot Morgan's March 8 editorial, "An Orwellian Nightmare" about the prevalence of false rape charges, I feel compelled to defend myself. Morgan points to my essay, "Calling it Rape," that ran in the Febraury 7 issue of What is to be Done? as an example of an incident that has been innaccurately termed "acquaintance rape...
First and foremost, Morgan missed the point of my article. It was a personal essay more about the process of recovery after a rape has occured than a legally defensible charge of acquaintance rape. I was not interested in giving an account of the details of the rape, both because they are not so important to the article's point and because what happened is still very painful for me to describe...
...unfair and inappropriate for Morgan to use that essay as fuel for his argument. Because I left out most of the details of what happened, Morgan was able to draw his own unfounded conclusions. But for Morgan to use a first-person reflection out of its context in support of his offensive editorial only demonstrates the weakness of his logic...
...Wolf had planned to write about the theme of beauty in literature. The Beauty Myth began taking shape when she heard someone remark that she had won the scholarship because of her looks. Says Wolf: "I had an image of the documents I had presented to the committee -- my essay, a book of poems I had written, letters of recommendation -- and the whole of it being swept away by that one sentence." Once she learned that other female Rhodes scholars had had similar tales told about them, she developed a new theme: that discussions of feminine beauty are actually about...
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