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Most of the people who went to see Extremities by William Mastrosimone knew it was about an attempted rape. But they did not know they would come out of the play, scheduled as part of this week's Take Back the Night activities, feeling some sympathy for the potential rapist, and a great deal of confusion about their reaction to the work...
...abroad. That message meant at least as much to Bush as the gloating of his political advisers over the payoff at home. To his credit, he seemed genuinely embarrassed when the bumptious Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater rushed to treat Noriega like Willie Horton, the murderer and rapist whose mug shot figured so prominently in the 1988 campaign -- a bad guy that good Americans love to hate...
...joke is at least to passively condone. Even if these jokes are just vestiges of past attitudes--which I wish they were--still, to make them, and especially to publish them, is to reinforce the bigotry they express. I am not accusing anyone of being a rapist. However, I am shocked not only that anyone would create such a cartoon or think it was funny, but even more, that through the entire editorial process, not one person on the staff of The Lampoon was aware enough of what this cartoon stated to object to it. This lack of awareness says...
Pardon me, but a lot of high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...
...accused rapist: a drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...