BeckySharper
BeckySharper
BeckySharper

At least no children were harmed by the TMI in this book.

@royalfan5: Apparently you can please all of the people all of the time.

@Iconoclassicist: I dunno. Maybe it's that there's more openness talking about sex than there was 10-15 years ago when I was in college, but it seems like there's been an uptick in running obviously offensive pieces about women and sex.

@Stagtastic: Yeah, I mean, I worked at student newspapers and magazines at my alma mater, which was Southern and fairly conservative—i.e. not an enlightened place when it came to women's rights or sexual politics—and we never in a million years would have considered running this (or that shit that ran in the Hopkins

What the fuck is it with college newspapers these days?

If you have to say "But it was satire!"...it wasn't.

@skahammer: I'm not a lawyer myself (although about half my family is), but I'm pretty sure you just have to show evidence of unethical conduct, not necessarily evidence of a crime.

@skahammer: Morally reprehensible conduct, most definitely. I think most bar associations will disbar for gross unethical conduct if it can be proven, which these texts do. And I agree, improperly seeking to influence a participant in a case is certainly an issue here too—-he's using his leverage to compel the victim

That seems like an easy disbarring case to me. Losing his right to practice law certainly fits the crime.

@Euryale: Very true. But the impulse to kill or harm my husband/rapist would be well-nigh irresistible, at least to me. Especially since it seems reasonable to expect the raping would continue indefinitely.

@stacyinbean: It's not rape because she secretly loves it!

@GunwallsLizzie: But Hitler was a vegetarian! And he really loved his dog!

I can see why women could be forced into this situation, but....fuuuuuck....I would be stirring rat poison into hubby's soup at the first available opportunity.

I assume this works for dudes too because it crushes their junk?

@CandyBacon: Bill Nye is awesome. But even he would agree that this is not science.

@cool_as_KimDeal: True, although I think the sweeping generalizations about men and women based on studies with a sample size of 375 college students are inherently bullshit.