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Some of Roiphe's arguments are interesting; some are even compelling. But some of her arguments fail to adequately address the key issues involved in the current discussion of date rape...
Recently, Roiphe visited Harvard and shared her ideas about date rape, feminism and other issues with an audience of about 500 at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum...
...evaluating Roiphe's thought, it's important to keep in mind certain disclaimers which Roiphe made in both her book and her speech. The Morning After is not a detailed, systematic study of date rape and feminism, but rather, a personal narrative that draws heavily on anecdotes...
Roiphe's main thesis is that many contemporary feminists actually undermine their own cause of women's liberation with alarmist proclamations of a "date rape crisis." Their exaggeration of the incidence of date rape reinforces old stereotypes of women as victims, powerless before male aggression. These are the same stereotypes which feminists of the past, including Roiphe's own mother, struggled to eliminate...
Feminists have responded to Roiphe's argument in several ways, and many of their responses make sense. They have argued that one of the problems of date rape is that it's underreported as a crime, and that several factors--including lingering disapproval of sexual activity among unmarried women--conspire to keep it as such...