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Reverse the genders of the players in this scenario, and you have the incident at The Crimson. Yet now the president is apologizing, and the pranksters are the victims, demanding his resignation after accusations of sexual harassment and sexism...
...either scenario, it is the man who is in the wrong, and the woman who is the victim. Talk about a sexual double-standard...
...rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could be stolen, my wife could run off; in a worst- case scenario my wife could drive my car into my house and everything might explode. I am now more unhappy than ever...
...without the potential good this new information can do in changing people's minds, the potential dangers are terrifying. Some may search for a "cure" or, in the more immediate future, consider aborting a fetus that is predicted to be gay. This is the scenario in The Twilight of the Golds, which I expected to remain in the realm of science fiction for much longer than it apparently will...
...assault and robbery. He deals swiftly with the crime, then goes on to outline its aftermath in meticulous detail, from the hours Nancy spends combing through police mug shots to the frustrating plea bargaining necessary to close the case. The author presents what appears to be a best-case scenario (the victim sustains no lasting physical injuries, all officialdom is uniformly kind and civil) while managing to skewer upper-middle-class denial in the face of shocking events. But the woman's constant tug-of-war between pursuing justice and putting the horror behind her is a painfully real...