"If it were up to feminists, any woman seducing a boy is OK, but any man seducing a girl is not. Since feminists have wrested or been granted control of the dialog and the social tenor of most of America, this does not bode well."

Feminists worked to include males in the rape laws. Why do you suppose men hadn't done this for themselves? Feminists DO NOT believe what you've just said, please do some reading.

Canuckistan Bob says:

"It may be sexist and so on, but I really do think boys and girls, particularly as teens, really are quite different, with much different vulnerabilities and risk factors."

Gee you're right, that IS SEXIST! If the concept of an underage person being unable to give consent and not regarded as an adult under the law is the foundation of this legal argument, why should it only be applied to young females? Are you maintaining that young males are more adult? Why is that?

Please go read some Catherine Mackinnon!

"Calling a woman a "c*nt" is denying her brain, her intellect, her personality, her personhood."

I agree that using this term is trying to cut a woman down, but actually, the term is from the same root word as "cunning". Having a brain and using it while being female IS the offense in a sexist culture. You may disagree with Clinton's actions or politics, but if you respected a person as a person and simply disagreed with their voting record, it's unlikely you'd go that low and make such a T-shirt.

This is a pretty taboo term in our culture right now, I think most people will stop at "bitch" and many women have reclaimed that word. Hillary is advancing and she is successful, so the backlash is getting worse. That term hasn't surfaced in reference to her before she won in two state caucuses, now has it?

....with the letter writer.

I'm an artist!

I have opinions, ideas and interests. I hope to set a great example for my daughter about living a full and fulfilling life and being interested in the world and community around me even as a parent. Women have alot to offer besides their hard work caring for children. Just becasue you're not getting out much doesn't mean your brain can't.

Sorry...Just because

Why do you think it took feminists to write men and young boys into the rape laws in the first place? Why do you think the men who originally created the laws didn't do this?

Now, if a young boy is raped, it is actually an actionable crime.

Go ahead, you can say thanks.

Parson Jim, I enjoy your letters, but have you read any of Catherine McKinnon's work? Why do you take her legal scholarship that way? I haven't read Dworkin, I'll fess up to that.

I'm surprised but pleased that LeCastor has actually done some actual reading in the area, most of what's on these boards is reactive personal opinion. For me, if people haven't read "The Second Sex", I prefer not to have a conversation about feminism - because you can't actually have one.

When I was around 14 or 15, I was in the kitchen of a couple I babysat for. The mother had taken over and was feeding one child and had the older one hanging onto her. The husband came into the kitchen, looked into the fridge and began to yell at her (in front of me) for buying THE WRONG KIND OF PICKLE! That was an important early lesson about marriage, among others. I hope she took two pickles and shoved them up his nose after she dropped me off, but I doubt it.

Overall, I think that having the larger culture pay attention to women's experience and point of view is incredibly important and that gift was given to us by feminists.

Awesome, Miriald brings up actual research.

As I read the article, I see that it is Breslin who is saying that this is a part of male fantasies that people can't control, not Tracy. While Breslin may be correct, it is objectionable to say that many people do it, so nobody should suggest it might be problematic in any way. She suggests that it should be examined openly. It already has, but she's welcome to recreate the years of studies and examination.

It's also pretty crappy to suggest that a person who intentionally turns away from violent imagery is puritanical (maybe they're Buddhist). If you're working for that egalitarian and mutual relationship, how will you get there on a steady diet of this stuff?

You notice they didn't put in an option for the hooker to kill the gamer during sex, but now that wouldn't be good, would it? Double standard on the violence as well as the sex.

She 's a nightmare, but she follows the party line for sure.

It's interesting. She argues that some "cultures" (the White Southerners she mentions) just have to make room for others in our midst, they feel that something is LOST, or that they are LOSING. What they have lost is hegemony and total power, and we should say that that goes for the males only.

To imply that white Southerners and their ancestors were the only ones around, building the South and building this country is especially creepy.

There's also the usual gender commentary that the Dems are not staying in their proper roles, just to scare the conservatives. Hillary is manly, steely (an improper woman) and the men are anything other than bloviating, self-righteous white supramacists, not man enough!

It could get really old, except that many people believe this fervently and their value system could keep us in a permanent state of conflict, as McCain has so glibly promised.