Thank you for pointing this out. People back then and now don't care who the scapegoat is for "kids these days," as long as there is one.

I want to like James Deen. I really do. And I did. But then I saw his heinous rape joke on Twitter. Here's a screenshot posted on Tumblr:

I love how the attorney appropriates the scarlet letter, a symbol of misogyny, to describe the criticism a middle-aged man is getting for RAPING A FUCKING TEENAGER. Christ, that one makes my head hurt.