The Kobe Wars
There's a very interesting discussion about the Kobe Bryant rape case and related issues on Kevin Roderick's LAObserved, one of my favorite blogs. Here's an excerpt from my post from this discussion:
"One of my problems with feminists (and I'm not a feminist, but a humanist) is their infantilization of women. Ted's remark calls to mind my thoughts when the William Kennedy Smith rape trial was in progress: that nobody should be raped, certainly not -- but that a woman has a responsibility to act intelligently as far as her safety goes. If you go to the Kennedy compound late at night with one of the boys, what do you think is on the agenda, checkers in the library? Come on. Again, I'm not saying anybody should be raped, or that it's not horrible when someone is. Just that women need to fight the infantilization by the feminists and expect to look after their own safety by being reasonable and sensible about where they go and with whom."






