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...recent Salient article entitled "The Politics of Rape," says that the Date Rape Task Force, because it defines rape from the woman's/ victim's perspective, makes a policy recommendation that would not be "objective college policy"--as if such a policy could exist--but "merely a modern feminist political statement...
...only group guilty of falsely presenting women's voice and viewpoints as more political--i.e., more tainted, subjective, unreasonable, dangerous and evil--than those of others. Just this week, for example, The New York Times argued in its editorial on Roe v. Wade that pro-choice feminist activists were wrong to "raise doubts that we are a government of laws, not men." Just as The Times continues to hold that journalism is completely "objective"--forgetting its own biases in covering the William Kennedy Smith trial--in this case the paper illustrates what is either a naive, unflinching trust...
...Take Back the Night panel on rape and the law this week, Nancy Gertner, a feminist defense lawyer in Boston who specializes in cases of violence against women, offered a fitting analogy for this debate. Doctors, she said, are not allowed to operate on a person simply because the patient does not say anything. An operation requires a yes. Not similarly requiring a yes for sex somehow implies that an initiator has less responsibility with his or her partner's body...
After the rally, participants began to march, stopping at the Harvard Law Review building. The group stood silently for several minutes before chanting, "Hey, hey ho ho, this sexist shit has got to go," referring to the journal's parody of a work by murdered feminist scholar Mary Jo Frug...
...professors disagreed with the earlier letter's claim that the recent parody of murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug's piece in the spoof edition of the Law Review was a symptom of a larger problem of sexism at the Law School. The piece con- tained what critics claimed to be misogynisticand insensitive comments...