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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 12:57amSanction this postReply
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Wow! Fantastic article, Alec. I wish I could see some of the responses the ugly cows must be sending right now!
(Edited by Andrew Bissell
on 5/02, 1:00am)


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 1:10amSanction this postReply
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Andrew, your wish is my command.

Here are just the responses that were *published* since my column was printed:

http://dailynexus.com/opinion/2005/9504.html

http://dailynexus.com/opinion/2005/9505.html

http://dailynexus.com/opinion/2005/9589.html

Plus one column defending my right to free speech against these responses. And none of this includes all the online stalkers who have told me that I can never understand the horrors of being hit on and complimented on one's ass.

Alec


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 1:16amSanction this postReply
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Well, we know *that's* not true. Hahahaha!

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 1:27amSanction this postReply
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He he. It's obvious that many young American women have never heard of Lindsay Perigo.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 1:33amSanction this postReply
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Well, they should just ask young American men.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 3:54amSanction this postReply
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Alec. Good article. Worthy of a longer treatment.

It's not surprising that many responses are tending to distort the main thesis of your article, by claiming that you trivialize rape. They conveniently evade your point about the misuse of statistics that is used as one of the main justifications for these programs and departments.

Having never experienced the horror of being hit on for this ass of mine, I suppose I can't empathise...

John

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 4:25amSanction this postReply
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Wow, it's almost as if everyone writing those responses was intentionally trying to validate and confirm every word of your column.

Oh, and Linz: "Well, we know *that's* not true. Hahahaha!" was a definite belly-laugh line.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 5:42amSanction this postReply
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Reminds me of a letter I once heard about being published in Auckland University's Craccum student rag. Turns out some sensitive young feminist was deeply offended every time some man opened the door for her. She felt like she was being raped.

The next day the magazine is inundated with letters from people who complained that the automatic doors in the University Library had raped them 12-20 times a day...

Excellent article Alec, way to troll with this line "Now I’ll readily admit that the word “rape” kind of turns me on, but that’s only because it rhymes with “ape.” :-)

"if women were really from Venus, they’d have three boobs" Boobies Hmmmmmmmm.....



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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 6:42amSanction this postReply
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Alec, you are so right about that gender studies crap!  My question is about the 1 in 4 abuse statistic.  My experience has been that that is about right among my female friends.  Of course, that doesn't prove anything.  Where did you find the info about the statistic being wrong?  Do you know where there is a more accurate one?

Kelly


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:06amSanction this postReply
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I'm sorry, but this has to be the most revolting post I've read so far.  Alec, you seem to think ( and you seem to have company) that rape is a rare occurrence perpetrated in dark alleys by a stranger.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  As for domestic violence against women, do you really think that it exists on the same level as the occasional woman who is physically capable of browbeating a man? 
 
Since you appear comfortable calling women "cows," I won't have any bad feelings about calling you a sick pig.
 
 


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:24amSanction this postReply
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I find it interesting that no one is talking about men getting raped. One would think that, given the feminist perspective of male/female equality, there would be talk about the issue from both sides of the story.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:34amSanction this postReply
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I don't read the article as being about rape per se. What it *is* about, is the irrationality of gender studies and womens studies departments, and the stridently angry arguments used to justify their existence.

Sarah, good point. If ever there is a "hidden" statistic that is it.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:37amSanction this postReply
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Great article Alec.

I read a short piece about Dworkin that she was great friends with Linda Lovelace - who together unsuccessfully tried to get a law passed to ban pornography.

Linda Lovelace was the porn actress in the hugely successful "deep throat". After she spent at least ten years making porn films - including a sequel to deep throat - and multiple interviews saying that she disliked the feminism movement and was not exploited she suddenly decided after becoming a born-again christian that she had been raped and expolited when making these films. And this only after her husband left her for another porn actress.

One of her former acquaintances in the porn industry, Al Goldstein, had this to say about her:

 

Good riddance to trash. She was a good cocksucker. She was a piece of shit. Her book Ordeal was a lying piece of shit. She was a hooker, a scumbag, a lying trollop. I'm glad Traynor taught her to suck cock. I dropped several ejaculations down her throat. I want to do a final load, so when she goes to hell my sperm will go with her.


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:41amSanction this postReply
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Ginny said:
As for domestic violence against women, do you really think that it exists on the same level as the occasional woman who is physically capable of browbeating a man? 
 
Since you appear comfortable calling women "cows," I won't have any bad feelings about calling you a sick pig.

Ginny, I think your reading skills need sharpening.  The first sentence quoted above seems to be referring to the following sentence from Alec:
That violence against women is pathological is proven by the studies that show the vast majority of wife-beaters to be criminals who also beat men.
This just says that most men who beat their wives are also the kind who also beat other men.  If this is not what you were referring to, please let me know.  As to the second sentence of yours that I quoted, Alec nowhere calls women cows.  His last sentence is:
It’s time to put this diseased sacred cow out to pasture.
If you read that as saying women are cows, then I think the problem lies with you, not with Alec.

Glenn


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:45amSanction this postReply
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Tut tut Marcus...better duck for cover.

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 7:50amSanction this postReply
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Glenn, you are correct.  My reading skills need sharpening.  I sometimes read these posts and work and must read very fast.

That said (with due apologies), my opinion of Alec remains unchanged. 

Ginny


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 8:19amSanction this postReply
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Alec,

Your usual skill and wit are evident in this article.  Thanks for cutting through some of that nonsense! 

Jason


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 8:25amSanction this postReply
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I found this response to Alec's article quite interesting:

In those anonymous surveys, respondents are asked why they didn’t tell anyone or report to the police and they give the following answers: not sure what to call what happened, ...
I can't help but wonder if the translation of this is "I got too drunk to be in control of myself, and slept with some random guy, but now I'm mad..."

I've seen enough Spring Break antics to know that this is highly likely.  And as for them "asking for it," why is it ok for them to flash their breasts in bars, but then no man is allowed to interpret that as sexually suggestive?  Pathetic.


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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 8:28amSanction this postReply
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As for men getting raped, it does happen. My best friend in high school was raped by another man. But it doesn't happen often for obvious reasons. Just because women are almost always the victims and men almost always the perpetrators doesn't mean that all men are evil pigs who hate women and want to oppress them. That is what gender studies types believe. Violence against women is horrible, just as violence against any innocent person is horrible. The way to stop rape is not to castrate all men; the way to stop rape is to castrate rapists.

Kelly

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Monday, May 2, 2005 - 8:31amSanction this postReply
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Whoa, Jennifer. Of course flashing breasts is sexually suggestive, but do you mean that that gives a man the ok to have sex with a woman no matter what she says? I agree that is prick teasing, and low and mean, but surely it would still be rape. I should be able to walk down the street nekkid as a jay bird and know that I am safe. Would I do it? No. But I should be able to.

Kelly

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