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...Hanson and Levin cases are vivid reminders that defense attorneys frequently try to portray female victims of sexual crimes as either sluts or teases. "Blaming the victim is a very sexist defense," says Kelli Conlin of the National Organization for Women. "It started with rape cases. The idea was 'She asked for it.' " In recent years, though, new rape-shield laws have excluded from trials evidence regarding a rape victim's sexual past, except any previous relationship with the alleged attacker...
...surprising, considering she began her career as literary wunderkind at "the Yale School" of criticism during the '70s, under mentors such as Derrida and de Man. She attacks former teachers and colleagues at the rival institution, with the exception of Derrida and de Man, for their blindness to sexist biases...
Well, I didn't. I felt instead that lumped under the same rubric were a number of cross-motives. People were demanding an end to anything from "date rape" to "this sexist shit" to "the patriarchy." Some were crying, "People unite" and others, insistently, "Women unite." I wondered how the men on the march felt about that. I wondered, also, how they felt about the polite request that they walk at the end of the procession, so that those women who felt the need to be separate could be. One cheer went, "Gay, straight; Black, white. Same struggle, same fight...
...VCRs bring X- rated films into the bedroom, women are developing a taste for porn and pushing for a softer, less sexist product...
David Schrag '89, who witnessed Fleischer's strip-a-gram in the Mather dining hall said, "While it wasn't all that interesting and I was wondering how far she would go, I don't think it's sexist or exploitative. I'm not against it as a principle. It was all in good...