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Rape Victims Inc.
The Huffington Post sinks to a new low in its DSK coverage.
In the media business, the pressure for commentators to gain attention is both immense and fundamentally unfair. Working in an atmosphere where web traffic rules supreme and byline-building is a contact sport, commentators are routinely pushed to make the boldest possible pronouncements on hot-button issues.
The folks at the Huffington Post know this game full well. Almost every day, the Post’s bloggers obscure political issues with their sanctimonious personal confessions — ones that would seem right at home in an undergraduate creative writing seminar (next up at the HuffPo Word Slam: Rich Rose will read from his bold personal essay “Why I Accept Trans People”).
HuffPo blogger Eve Ensler — an undergraduate-level playwright responsible for The Vagina Monologues — sank to a new low in her August 26 “V-Report” column for Huffington on the aftermath of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s dismissal on rape charges. “The day DSK was dismissed I sent this out via Twitter:” opens Ensler, “‘I am so OVER women being put on trial when they get raped.’”
Instead of discussing the facts of the DSK case, Ensler sticks to her personal narrative, laying out a series of anecdotes like a presidential debater trying for populist appeal:
Within seconds, emails, tweets and Facebook responses began to pour in. Women sent me stories about cases reported and unreported. One woman pressed charges against a younger male student who stalked and attempted to rape her at Seminary school. She wrote to the Dean and a church district Superintendent. She was told no one could help her… A 12-year-old in Missouri is blamed for reporting a rape and forced to write a written apology to the boy who raped her and deliver it personally. She is accused of filing a fake report and thrown out of school.
After needlessly associating Strauss-Kahn’s three-letter nickname with incidents that occurred many miles from his Manhattan hotel, Ensler goes even broader: “What happens to women who come forward to press charges against rape and battery? They are often told it’s because of the way they were dressed, they wanted it, they are making it up. Their own histories are put on trial.”
So naturally Ensler doesn’t mention the history of DSK’s accuser Nafissatou Diallo. She doesn’t mention that Diallo “contradicted key details of her original story, ultimately providing investigators with at least three versions” or that Diallo admitted to lying about a previous alleged rape. Nor does Ensler mention how important Diallo’s history proved to DSK’s dismissal. “The nature and number of [Ms. Diallo’s] falsehoods leave us unable to credit her version of events beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever the truth may be about the encounter,” wrote the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. “If we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to do so.”
Perhaps Ensler is so OVER our constitutionally protected right to a fair trial? Should every rape accuser instantly see vindicated in a court of law, no matter how many times she has lied to authorities? Does Diallo automatically then deserve a payday in her related civil suit against multi-millionaire Strauss-Kahn?
Instead of addressing these concerns, Ensler builds up to her shameful and negligent crescendo.
Here’s where I pause and consider another media phenomenon: the cannibalistic practice of monitoring our peers’ articles and throwaway blog posts on the off-chance that they cross some kind of P.C. line. The Huffington Post is one of the loudest policers of the free speech of those falling outside their trust-funders-with-problems genre. So, lest I be run out of media on a rail, I proceed with caution.
Ensler ends her piece emphatically with a personal anecdote. She ties it to the completely unrelated DSK case as though her personal experience validates some kind of point about Strauss-Kahn:
Let the DSK dismissal be our call to rise. Something has shifted with this case, let’s seize this moment. Let so many of us speak out that it’s a landslide and it turns the tide and the courts and the method of justice.
So, I’ll go first:
My father regularly beat me senseless and sexually abused me. He gave me bloody noses in restaurants and smashed my head against walls and whipped my legs with belts. There was no one to turn to. I am reporting it here and now. He has passed on, but I want it on the record.
This is the point in the seminar where we’re all supposed to nod our heads hiply and feel enlightened for having heard that (organic snacks and Kombucha are on the table, help yourselves).
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.29.11 @ 6:12AM
Her rants only prove one thing. Women never stop bitching.
Edward White| 8.29.11 @ 10:13AM
A serial sexual predator, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not out of the woods yet.
According to Herald de Paris, numerous women in France will press charges of rape and attempted rape against him when he returns.
His rapacious sexual appetites are well-known and have been documented by his female politcal colleagues. With each passing day, more French women are revealing their violent encounters with DSK.
I am not at all surprised, though, that American Spectator would come to his defense. AmSpec is known for its perversity in defending scoundrels--political and sexual.
Sexuality, in all its varied forms, is A OKAY in the right-wing sphere just as long as it's heterosexual and not . . . (heaven forbid) . . . homosexual.
Strauss Kahn will face the fury of the women he has sexually abused, but it is doubtful that a man as rich and powerful as he will go to prison.
A pity.
Anatole B.| 8.29.11 @ 11:16AM
Mr. Howley,
Strauss-Kahn is a squalid adulturer, a sexual pig.
Yes, a sleazy, adulturous character this Strauss Kahn, yet I have not read one word in AmSpec criticizing his insatiable appetite for adulturous sex, which his wife evidently approves.
I wonder why.
Am/Spec is so critical of adultury when committed by a Democrat politician, denouncing his adultury in the strongest moral terms.
Is this another example of Am/spec's duplicity?
Leroy| 8.29.11 @ 11:19AM
Sho does look like it, Miss Anatole Bitch.
(Sorry about the "bitch," but I have Tourette's and it's the Tourette's talkin', not me.)
PJs| 8.29.11 @ 11:47AM
Thanks for the laugh, Leroy.
Drunken Sailor| 8.29.11 @ 11:44AM
Last I checked Adultrey, while immoral and wrong, was not a crime. Yes he is most likely a pig, but if we locked all the pigs up, who would run for Democtrat office? Perjury and making false accusations is a crime and she should be prosecuted.
(No pigs were harmed or intentionally slighted by the author of this comments, unless they were properly processed by a butcher).
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 1:21PM
Hilarious. AmSpec got it's start going after Bill Clinton after the leftist media had tried to cover up his misdeeds. This was soon after the Anita Hill charges against Clarence Thomas that were shown to be meritless.
Nancy| 8.29.11 @ 1:54PM
Excellent point, Edward White.
I don't usually appreciate your posts, but you've got my attention this time because you've hit the AmSpec's lover boy DSK smack dab on on the middle of his violent, sex-addict head.
TrueBlue| 8.29.11 @ 5:12PM
It makes not a lick of difference how much of a pig the man is, or what he has done in the past. If it cannot be proven in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he did it, then the case deserves to be thrown out. That's how the law works. People cheer when a member of a minority groups gets off for the same reason, but you get a rich white guy on the stand that gets off and people are up in arms. You can't have it both ways.
Jim| 8.29.11 @ 6:44PM
The reason, True Blue, that people are "up in arms" over DSK is that there are scores of French women who attest that he forced, or tried to force, himself sexually on them.
According to news reports, he had sex three times that weekend, and he had it with the maid for there was semen on her uniform and on the wall--DSK's semen (along with the semen of four other men at various locations within the elegant, luxurious room).
Anyway, why is American Spectator supporting this aberrant sexual predator?
KyMouse| 8.29.11 @ 7:13AM
Women like HER never stop bitching, Bill.
Her father is dead, so she feels free to trash his memory, secure in the knowledge that he cannot refute her accusations. A bitch indeed.
Doorgunner| 8.29.11 @ 7:14AM
Certainly, it is impolitic on my part to float the question, but I can't help it:
What the coverage of the DSK case be now, in tenor and quantity, were he a 'person of color'?
Doorgunner| 8.29.11 @ 7:15AM
What WOULD the coverage....
darn it
RT| 8.29.11 @ 8:41AM
'TWOULD have been the same as 'TWAS. Did the fact that his accuser was a "person of [a particular] color" affect the coverage? Not to my knowledge.
A far more important question to ask is what the coverage would have been if the accuser was a Finnish Lapplander and the victim was Nepalese. THEN we would have had cause for outrage...
RT| 8.29.11 @ 8:47AM
Whoops 'Gunner, I may have misunderstood your post. Sorry.
Darn it.
sinanju| 8.29.11 @ 11:21AM
You mean: what if the culprit were, say, Kofi Annan, an African version of DSK?
I think the initial coverage would be a bit more halting and awkward as the Lib media would consult furiously with their PC experts and teleconference with each other as to what niceties they ought to observe but I think it would end up being much the same.
Sean| 8.29.11 @ 7:36AM
All these women who put these false rape claims up should be prosecuted fully. In the Duke case they failed to prosecute the false accuser and now she has murdered someone.
sinanju| 8.29.11 @ 11:49AM
I believe false accusation is supposed to be a serious crime and that traditional, unwritten prosecutorial discretion seems to be to let false rape accusers off without a word or a wrist slap. At least, that is the way it has always seemed. If any legal eagles in the audience can flesh this out I would be most grateful.
I also believe that if just a handful of false rape accusers were made to pay the penalty, false accusations would cease tout de suite.
You may have noticed that no one has been hacking Sarah Palin's email lately. That adorable little scamp (David C. Kernell) should be finishing his sentence this November.
TrueBlue| 8.29.11 @ 5:13PM
Make anyone that brings false charges against another pay the court and lawyer fees. That'll stop them dead in their tracks.
MOS was 71331| 8.31.11 @ 12:54AM
Rape accusations aren't civil suits; if the prosecution goes ahead with them, they become criminal cases. If the standard for considering the accusations false is proof of falsity beyond a reasonable doubt, that'll be tough to do.
I doubt the civil case against DSK will go forward, so there'll be no court and lawyer fees to collect. The woman probably can't afford a civil attorney for her case, and few attorneys would take such a shaky case for a share of the unlikely winnings.
MOS was 71331| 8.31.11 @ 12:42AM
The accusation may be false, but, for conviction for making a false accusation, the prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accusation was false AND that the person making it knew it was false. That's quite a challenge for the prosecution, particularly if the accusation initially seemed credible.
Pecos Pete| 8.29.11 @ 8:07AM
You can Huff and Puff and try to blow me down, but I will NEVER read the Huffington Post. Same with Democratic Underground and Daily Kos. Nothing but drivel.
PCC| 8.29.11 @ 8:25AM
I'm with you, Pete.
I tried to read both Huffpo and Kos in order to "understand the other side's argument", but each of them are both unserious and unreadable.
Now I just watch NBC News.
John Navratil| 8.29.11 @ 8:59AM
PCC,
And I used to watch Obama's speeches and stopped - all for the reasons you mention.
Drunken Sailor| 8.29.11 @ 11:46AM
I tried to turn Obama's speeches into a drinking game by doing a shot every time he said "I" or "Let me be perfectly clear". Had to stop before I got liver damage.
Only Republican at Woodstock| 8.30.11 @ 1:52AM
Hey, D.S. I see what your problem is - as a drinking game this must be a GROUP sport. You take a shot when the anointed one says "I" in a speech. Your opponent takes a shot when he says "Let me be perfectly clear." If there are three of you, the third participant drinks every time he says "me". Whoever passes out first wins (because he can no longer hear the speech). Of course, you will all probably end up in a twelve step program, but it will take about a week longer.
Chalkdust| 8.29.11 @ 9:56AM
These days you can read/watch almost anything to get the Coastal/university campus/kindergarden side of common interests/topical issues. To get the side that matters to most people, you have to dig a little deeper.
Silver Streake| 8.29.11 @ 10:13AM
PCC the reason you and others can't read the leftist drivel is because you have a functioning brain. The vast majority of visitors to Huffpo and other such sites have brains that have stopped functioning, probably as a result of being 'educated' in the public schools systems of this country.
Congratulations, you survived the indoctrination of the unionistas. You probably have a job, a home mortgage and other importabt responsibilities. Typically these things disqualify you from reading leftist drivel.
henry| 8.29.11 @ 9:20AM
Maybe she didn't really mean it. Maybe it was just a vagina monologue?
NotALiberal| 8.29.11 @ 7:21PM
I suspect it was another orifice.
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 9:39AM
For the life of me, I don't understand why certain women wish to be looked at as "victims" of men. Yes, women, in general, have been abused throughout history (currently watching The Tudors! :)) ...but, women are strong. Right now, it seems to me that many liberal women want to exact revenge on men for the history of how women might have been treated in the past. They seem to relish in revenge on men...whether guilty or not. So, what makes them any better than a liar who calls whites "racist?" (Think Rev. Wright or Al Sharpton.) Absolutely nothing. And, why don't women rail against Sharia Law, a real threat to women (and homosexuals)? Um...doesn't fit with the liberal template, I'm guessing.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 9:58AM
DeborahD, the Tudors is a joke. For starters, the leading man doesn't look anything like King Henry VIII.
And women in general abused throughout history? Watch the Titanic. Also check out a term called chivalry. When women talk about how they want to be treated by men, they refer to chivalry, not equality. When women go without chivalry, then it can be argued that they've changed since the 1950's.
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 11:24AM
I know The Tudors isn't totally fact based, but I do also know that women were considered property for a very long time. I did put a smiley face after admitting to watching The Tudors. So please, give me a break. I understand and know about chivalry also, but also know that women couldn't inherit for a very long time. They were not equal, but "we've come a long way, baby!" Your argument isn't with me. There are two sides to everything. I agree with you in principle, but women were second class citizens for a very long time. That's a fact, but one we have gone well beyond as a culture, which is a very good thing. We do have "certain" women who want to beat men over the head regardless of where we really are. That's also a fact.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 12:45PM
Most people were considered property of the state (serfs and "subjects") and serfs didn't have any property to pass down. This is like comparing Donald Trump to June Cleaver.
I heard stories about my grandparents and not too much was said about the men since they worked long hours in the coal mines and died young, if they weren't drafted and died in wars, of course.
Regarding inheritances and bringing up Henry VIII. Look up his daughter Queen Elizabeth. She happened to become Queen.
Nope, the poor oppressed woman is a feminist myth. If women really were oppressed by traditionalism, women wouldn't cite it the moment the lifeboats are lowered or the dinner check arrives.
Feminism, like leftism, is about claiming victimhood status in order to project and direct attention away from their own wrongdoing. I'm not making this up: A feminist told me that she expected men to pay her way on dates because of the traditional oppression of women. When I pointed out she earned more than the average man and was going to inherit a large sum of money from her father, she blurted out that women elsewhere in the middle east were oppressed. It's funny now that feminists now are in the same political action groups as radical muslims and Hillary wore a veil to a mosque near ground zero. The irony!
Women's equality is not only a nonsensical term but also paradoxical. Nobody can be "equal" via being handheld as a victim by chivalrous, protective western men.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 1:17PM
I was just thinking after posting about the funny conflicts in fiction between treating women historically as victims, privileged or pampered princesses, or kickass, invulnerable heroines such as Xena or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the meantime, men in these programs are usually portrayed as either selfless, disposable puppy dogs to come to her rescue when she blows a whistle, weak wimps, or slimy one-dimensional villains.
With that view of the world where women can do no wrong and men exist to run around pleasing them or apologizing, it's no wonder that so many modern women hate men.
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 1:51PM
I know about Queen Elizabeth. Good grief. I also know that her mother was beheaded in part because she failed to give birth to a male heir. And as far as women being able to inherit, I think Jane Austen would beg to differ. She arrived much later on the scene than Elizabeth I (1500's), Austen (1800's).
"Feminism, like leftism, is about claiming victimhood status in order to project and direct attention away from their own wrongdoing."
That sounds very much like my original post, Sir Knight. Me : "They seem to relish in revenge on men...whether guilty or not. So, what makes them any better than a liar who calls whites "racist?" (Think Rev. Wright or Al Sharpton.) Absolutely nothing."
You seem quite angry with someone like me who actually loves and admires men. Perhaps that stems from those "victims" in the feminist movement. Just like all men should not be considered oppressors of women, all women should not be considered those who share feminist ideology.
I also totally agree with you about how men are portrayed on television, movies and in commercials. It sickens me. I also think the way men are treated on college campuses is a travesty and one of the main reasons women outnumber men on campus. Why would any self-respecting male put himself through indoctrination basically telling him that he is automatically suspect just because he has a penis?
Go ahead, vent at me all you want. I don't blame you for venting. It totally ticks me off as well.
Margie| 8.29.11 @ 2:30PM
Pardon me for butting in, but I must: Well said, Deb D.
Deborah D | 8.30.11 @ 5:33AM
Thank you, Margie.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 3:04PM
I wasn't arguing with you personally but rather with the claim that women were historically victims of oppression. It's the foundation of the misandry and feminine entitlement complex of the past 4 decades.
The notion of men providing financially for women, dying to protect them from natural and man-made dangers more than makes up for the lack of inheritance rights to million dollar estates and discrimination for the Royal Throne.
Deborah, Margie, even nice women have a very tough choice to make: Are they unwilling to give up all the goodies of traditionalism and the "oppression" times or are they willing to accept real equality with men? So far, the answer seems to be the former. Rather than make the choice, most women in the states have problems with men and their personal lives (work/life balance.) It's a real mess.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 3:17PM
"I also think the way men are treated on college campuses is a travesty and one of the main reasons women outnumber men on campus."
I think this is probably mostly due to the reverse-discrimination policies. If you're a co-ed and have a question, there's about a half dozen or more womens, cancel that, womyns or wommons facilities to help you out including with financial aid, scholarships, and any gripe or complaint you may have against a "sexist" teacher who doesn't give you straight A's for showing up.
If you're a man, including a minority man, you can expect to be arrested if you jaywalk.
I saw this all coming about 20 years ago but predicted, wrongly, that women would wise up and rebel against feminism because of the harm it would cause to men on campus and in their lives.
Casual glances at the college scene and up-and-coming women show me wrong. They're going lesbian or butch lesbian to show that they don't "need" men or at least don't "need" men when there's a shortage of 1950's chivalrous breadwinners. Instead of using a shortage of such men to realize that their agenda and society is on the wrong path, they just get more and more angry. At least with my anger, you know the reason and it's logical. With them, the more of a 'victim' they are told they are the more angry they get although in a way, that is logical as well.
We're now going Logan's Run or 1984 or Brave New World style society where reproduction is no longer resembling the dual parent family or even heterosexual reproduction but rather sperm banks and laboratories producing the in-vitro offspring for aging affirmative action recipients working 60 hours a week at cramped law offices to make 30 year payments on condos and small townhouses.
Kind of makes the bad old days of marrying fat British monarchs and getting beheaded seem like a step up by comparison, eh?
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 3:49PM
A lot of the reasons men and women are talking past each other these days is the same reason that liberals have other "victims" and their so-called oppressors at each others throats. It's part of cultural Marxism. Just like class warfare, gender warfare is prescribed to tear down Western civilization. Same with multiculturalism -- pit people against each other by race, gender, money, age, fat against skinny...add your own. Pit the all-American, Bible-loving, gun-toting, flag-wavers against those who want to come to the USA and change it into what they've left. It's all by design. Look at the leftists who have taken over education both at the university level and in your local elementary school (umm...teachers learned at university!)
As a society, we must demand the truth...not some proclamation by those with ulterior motives. Thanks, AmSpec, for the space to hash all of this out.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 4:35PM
I still haven't gotten you to address my point that women can't really be victims of sexism when so many of them continue to crave sexism in their personal lives including in the traditional definition rather than just reversed.
What's shocking about this development, Deborah, is that the women embracing this notion of victimhood learned to hate and regard as sub-human their fathers, brothers, and even husbands at a political level while at a personal level would turn off a switch in their brain and would want to go back to being a damsel in distress and loved the patriarchy.
The marxist class warfare we experience is a derivative product of the standard set by bashing white males. EVERYONE outside of that group could be an almost instant leftist and member of a special privileges group.
Deborah D | 8.30.11 @ 6:10AM
Sorry, my Internet crashed, and I couldn't get here last evening.
Here's a story that might illustrate what you refer to in your post above, PolishKnight. A friend of my daughter's (age 28), is married to one of the sweetest guys ever. She is quite liberal. My daughter leans libertarian. Anyway, this friend (call her Andrea) is so liberal that when she married she never changed her name to her husband's. She's so independent-minded that she acts like she needs no one and talks openly as if she blames men for everything wrong in the world...in front of her husband! (I can't stand to watch it.) Oh, and she works for Planned Parenthood.
My daughter (call her Sara) and her husband have a much more traditional relationship. They treasure each other. Both work in good jobs. Make dinner together. Love and respect each other. They double date with Andrea and her husband.
One evening the four of them were leaving after a dinner out. Andrea's husband was driving that night. My daughter's husband opened the back door for his wife as he walked by, while Andrea's husband walked in front of the car to the driver's side to get behind the wheel.
Andrea (had a couple of glasses of wine) sat down on the curb and claimed that she wasn't going to go until her husband opened her car door. She made a scene until her husband, in order to shut her up, got out of the car and opened her car door.
My daughter and her husband were disgusted by this embarrassing scene. The main reason my daughter's husband opened her car door was that he was walking by the door on his way to the back of the car... and it was just out of kindness and good manners. He doesn't go out of his way to do those things. The other guy, poor dear, wasn't walking by his wife's car door.
So, yes, I believe you're correct about wanting to claim victimhood of men while also wanting the traditional respect. I really don't know how long this marriage will last. Her husband is not some wimp, and I'm sure he loves her, but her attitude (which came from the very liberal college she attended) might become too much after the initial couple of years of marriage wear off.
I really believe she is crazy about him, but she belittles him. That can kill a marriage.
Pete| 8.29.11 @ 10:43AM
We can only hope that the Mocha Messiah steps in here to create a "Department of Rape" to lend federal gravity to the situation akin to his planned "Department of Jobs" to address unemployment.
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 11:25AM
Funny!
Hannk| 8.29.11 @ 12:26PM
or a "Rape Czar"
honestbroker| 10.10.11 @ 7:23AM
Yes Pete, the only thing funny than racism is rape. Ha! You're hilarious. Department of Rape! I love it. You see, it is like exactly what the uppity black guy doing to upstanding middle-class whites, right? I totally agree. Should we powerful white men have our way with black women? What do you say, Pete? "YES WE CAN"!! Right? Right? I mean, come on now. We're the victims of them saying no! You want to get ride of unemployment for black women, Pete? I bet you got a job for 'em! And if they say no, then we'll just blame it on them! When we got the money and you got the power, it works every single time... Tony Montana style (or DSK).
honestbroker| 10.10.11 @ 7:23AM
Yes Pete, the only thing funny than racism is rape. Ha! You're hilarious. Department of Rape! I love it. You see, it is like exactly what the uppity black guy doing to upstanding middle-class whites, right? I totally agree. Should we powerful white men have our way with black women? What do you say, Pete? "YES WE CAN"!! Right? Right? I mean, come on now. We're the victims of them saying no! You want to get ride of unemployment for black women, Pete? I bet you got a job for 'em! And if they say no, then we'll just blame it on them! When we got the money and you got the power, it works every single time... Tony Montana style (or DSK).
Paul from SA| 8.29.11 @ 12:15PM
Bottom line: Liberals (Polanksi) can rape and get away with it. Liberals (Duke lacrosse) can make false charges of rape and get away with it.
Deborah D | 8.29.11 @ 2:00PM
Great observation.
Margie| 8.29.11 @ 2:36PM
So true. Liberals are a law unto themselves. They're their own Religion~ one of "anything goes."
And though it's been going on forever, Bill Clinton brought it to a whole 'nother low in our body politic.
cicero| 8.29.11 @ 3:20PM
It is the tension between the sexes that makes the world go round and round. Without it, the species would have died out eons ago. Each has their strengths and weaknesses, that are exploited by the other. It keeps general balance.
Eleanor of Aquitane comes to mind when the discussion of woman and weakness comes up. She was anyting but a victim, even though several men treated her rather badly. She went crusading because it seemed cool, and invented the game of chivlary and platonic love to keep the maidens of court occupied while all the men of quality were off fighting.
viva le diference, and may it always be so.
The fiasco in New York is of an entirely diferent quality. Liars, cheats, and sexual predators should never be spoken of "in general". They have to be dealt with on an indiviual basis, and should be dealt with harshly, as the facts are established.
PolishKnight| 8.29.11 @ 3:49PM
ssshhh! Cicero! Didn't you get the memo? Women couldn't have inheritances and careers until 20th century feminism liberated them!
nister| 8.29.11 @ 9:43PM
DSK was arrested while fleeing. He was dragged off an airplane headed for France. The guy was bugging out because he was guilty.
new| 8.30.11 @ 4:08AM
This was soon after the Anita Hill charges against Clarence Thomas that were shown to be meritless.
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shipley130| 8.31.11 @ 4:24PM
The liberal loonies seem to have forgotten to hold the victim accountable for lying.