@Archetype: UGH. I went to school with the son of the president of a major network's sports division, who was a perfectly nice guy from my encounters with him, but who wasn't well-liked on campus, I guess because he was so rich, which makes no sense given that, overall, students at my school tended to come from…

@drunkashell: It's tricky because kids will sometimes blame themselves because it "felt good." Not just kids; adult victims, too. Your body will betray you that way.

@SisterMaryMartha: Yeah, I found that interesting, too. not that it's any more normal for a 33-year-old to rape a child, but when I was 21 I was writing papers, not raping children.

@Gumbina80: Yeah, it's kind of one of those things that shouldn't be sugarcoated, you know?

@Oriana: He is 17 now, and they didn't even arrest her until seven years after the tapes were made. So sad.

The first time I read the post I was so distracted by the sex vs. rape thing that I missed this gem at the end: "Her husband has since died and is, one presumes, in hell." Well played, Sadie!

@Sophie: @Gumbina80: Oh good, I'm glad I'm not the only one. The way Sadie phrases it is how they phrase it in the article, so this isn't on Sadie, it's on the Orlando Sentinel. I first noticed this term during the Jessica Lunsford case.

OK, I really hate the phrase "having sex with" a child. There is no such thing as having sex with a child. There is only raping a child. I hate that news media insists on phrasing things that way. I'm sure it's a legal term or something, but if it is, it needs to be eradicated.

@toastandlove: Yes, every time I see David Caruso, I think about how his character is just a cheap Lennie Briscoe knockoff.

@Jen82: Good point!

@gold_gato: I hope this show lasts. The showrunner is one of the writers from Gilmore Girls, so it has some good lines. And I like the Megan character. I like Anne Archer as the grandma, too. Also I like that it is on after 90210, which I am also (unfortunately) pretty into.

This is so not the point of Sadie's post, but I am actually really enjoying Privileged. I think Joanna Garcia, who plays Megan, is the cutest person alive.

@KittenFluff: I have other, possibly better links on this matter saved in favorites on my home computer. I saved them after I had a conversation with my boyfriend about legalized prostitution. After I shared my findings, he agreed with me that it should be illegal.

Previously reported in The Guardian: "It's like you sign a contract to be raped" [www.guardian.co.uk]

@NefariousNewt: Yeah. I should come clean and say that this is my current boyfriend, whom I've now been with for two and a half years (and now live with). We talked things over and he explained that he had tried to break up with her the week before we re-met (we had known each other a little in college) but she said…

@FroderickFronkensteen: He paid for everything that night. In his defense, it was something he felt guilty about and he had promised himself that if we made it to a year he'd tell me. Why he thought the night of our anniversary celebration was the right time to tell me, I have no idea.

Don't, on our one-year anniversary, ruin a romantic evening of dinner and drinks by deciding NOW is the right time to tell me that, when we started seeing each other, you were technically still dating your last girlfriend.

@KittenFluff: *cred

@Understater: Yeah... I live in the West Village and my windows look out onto Bleecker, which is much an upscale strip mall. I thought the East Village would hold onto it's cre a but longer. Sad.

I used to read both Bitch and Bust religiously. Probably my all-time favorite piece from a feminist magazine was an article in Bitch about how SATC was basically a younger, shitty imitation of The Golden Girls. I also loved a cover story in Bust about awesome feminist electronic trio Le Tigre.