Grey rape, and when no means no.
This issue seems to cycle in and out of the public consciousness, maybe in response to a stupid comment by a politician (remember Todd Akin?), or a heated debate between blogs as summarized in this Slate XX blog entry. Those debates, which I can remember having in a course on the philosophy of sex and love in college, only permit black-and-white answers like “no means no” when they aren’t...
Read MoreBlind justice and the exclusion of evidence from criminal trials
I don’t like the popular image of Lady Justice (the woman with the blindfold and scale who shows up on courthouse steps and similar places.) My objection does not relate to the cut of her robe, which can be troubling to puritanical Attorneys General, (I’m always glad to see an annoyed Attorney General) but because her blindfold sends a rotten message about how the American justice system...
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