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...apparently, do a lot of other people. Fleiss's conviction for providing three undercover cops with high-price prostitutes has spawned angry op-ed pieces, talk-radio rantings and feminist denunciations. The standard complaint is one of fairness: of the several parties to any act of pandering, only Fleiss was singled out for prosecution. But what seems to incense Fleiss sympathizers most is the severity of the penalty, which they say dramatizes the problems of mandatory sentencing. "It reflects the worst sense of priorities of our criminal-justice system," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom Fleiss has asked...
...Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred shares Fleiss's anger. "To single out a woman for prosecution while a male customer is free to continue to act with impunity is a classic case of gender bias," she argues. Los Angeles attorney Shelly Mandell notes that California's 1983 pandering law was crafted with male pimps in mind, then asks, "How many men have been convicted of pandering in Los Angeles and are serving mandatory prison time?" Suzanne Childs, speaking for the L.A. district attorney's office, says such statistics are not readily available. Offhand, she recalls only one man doing time...
What other 19th century novel that aims to teach girls conventional morals and decorum has been so enshrined in the feminist honor roll? In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir recalls it fondly; of course, she identified with the bold, artistic Jo. In a 1983 essay, feminist Nina Auerbach suavely co-opts Alcott, concentrating on Marmee's counsel against materialism and Jo's determination to be unconventional...
Armstrong and Swicord have made the girls' mother (Susan Sarandon) something more of a feminist exemplar than she originally was; still, her social activism and her insistence that her children must claim their freedom do not seem anachronistic for a Concord woman of her time and class...
Competition for customers hasn't damaged cooperation among Inman entrepreneurs at all. House of Sarah Books enthusiastically endorses New Words, a feminist bookstore, to shoppers, and everyone seems to recommend stopping at 1369 for latte...