Word: tlr
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...article by Lisa Miller was entitled "Sexual Revolution, Part II: The fight over abstinence at Harvard." Miller seems to embrace the idea that abstinence can be an empowering way of escaping sexual discontent. Yet simultaneously, the article says that the polarizing "'one man, one woman' language" used by TLR may alienate individuals...
Despite this criticism, it appears TLR counts this article as an endorsement- they provide a link to the article from their blog under the title "Newsweek promotes TLR...
According to an email sent by Biery, "the goals of the club are still being developed," but he later states further down in the email chain that TLR-the-second has managed to attract at least 10 members, and that the next project will be to develop t-shirts, since "every good organization has free t-shirts...
Although Biery does not state it specifically, other responses to the email imply that this new group's presence may be in retaliation against the original TLR, which has been the subject of several articles in the Crimson editorial section over the past several weeks. The debate has continued on the TLR blog. See what one respondent to Biery's recent e-mail wrote, after the jump...
...then earlier this week, infamous ex-sex blogger Lena Chen '09-'10 wrote an editorial in the Crimson entitled "The Abstinence Mystique." The title says it all. But the TLR people seemed to have taken Chen's message with a better attitude, claiming in yet another blog post that the piece was "more civil than last week’s Crimson fail." But in a comment to her own article, Chen says that Wagley's blog post "fails to address the contradictions I bring up about TLR's interpretation of feminism." More of her thoughts, Chen says...