I think Patricia's point is that Temkin talked about the difficulty of consent in his post, and he could have opened a discussion about that. Of course, he was (logically) more concerned with his own defense and so she is trying to have that discussion here.

Is Durham a mostly liberal city? I've seen (accidentally hit enter) a lot of racism of the conservative variety in that area (Chapel Hill too). Duke is very interesting because there is also a good liberal movement. They have a campaign about words that shouldn't be used like 'tranny'. It, like much of North Carolina,…