Her name is out there, and I don't think she'll ever get a job in her life, if a potential employer happens to Google her name. Photo? Who needs it? Her identity is known.

Should we care?

Not about that, I think. It's a sad side effect of our nosy, digital age. If the consequences are bad for the boys, they'll be just as bad for her.

We should care about how these high profile media circuses skew the discussion and provide the crazies with ammunition to use against all women who try to report rape.

And, nothing is ever going to change the fact that having sex under the influence with multiple strangers is a risky activity--much more risky for women than for men, but very, very stupid for both genders and highly inadvisable. All morality aside, even Dan Savage, king of kink, tells people to meet their hookups offline, in a safe setting, to assess their suitability before going ahead with the deed. It's just common sense.

That's what we used to call it back in the 80s.

She has an okay voice and a sob story.

Her version of "wild horses" bored me to tears.....

Anybody who knows opera is insulted by Paul Potts, too. Of course the target audience of these people isn't really music lovers but other dreadfully plain middle aged people vicariously enjoying a wish fulfillment fantasy of being a big hit on stage in spite of being dreadfully plain, middle aged, and not able to sing.

Generally, I agree with you and like your writing....but this...."the definition of rape has changed, in a direction that makes me a little sad..."

Man, I pulled up at that.

Hasn't rape always meant "sexual intercourse forced on a person against their will"? When did this definition "change", and in what "sad" direction has it gone...?

Ohhhhhh...right...before, you had to be a nun horrifically ravaged by a dozen invading Visigoths for it to be "real" rape. Preferably, you wouldn't survive the attack...your motives might be suspect if you did.

Held down by a vindictive, bitter former boyfriend and forced to have sex while you begged and pleaded for him to stop? Not rape, you slut. Were you drinking? REALLY not rape. Were you paralyzed by fear/conditioning/helplessness so that there are no overt injuries? SOOOOOOO not rape, all such women can shut up and go home now.

Is that what you mean by a "changing defintion"?

Gah, I've got about a billion things to say about that, but I don't have the energy for it anymore. I agree that the word "rape" has been cheapened/trivialized in some contexts, like some whiny starlet comlaining she got "raped" by the media (although Susan Sontag has a lot to say about cameras and sexual agression)....but as far as I know the definition of the word hasn't changed.

I usually agree with most of your points...care to enlighten us?

shameless plug for his blog shows that the internet doesn't make people stupid, stupid people make the internet stupid...to modify a phrase. The link has nothing to do with the baby boomers or this subject, by the way. Ew.

Americaspeaksink, do you even know what we're talking about?

Seriously, is there any way to get rid of somebody who's abusing the thread with advertisements (and who will probably clone the debit card of any unfortunate who really does happen to go to the site)?

Can't you block it?

looking at a woman's "parts" will turn a guy gay, perhaps in revulsion, then it's clear he really, really hates women. Like all those jokes even straight men tell about how women are "fishy", etc.

And he's probably a closeted gay to boot. How lovely.

I agree with the almost 100% of the posters here who think that this wasn't a movie review but a personal bashing of MM. Okay, the AIG stunt was irritating and predictable. But you know, saying so only takes up one sentence. Couldn't you have spent some time actually discussing the film?

For the record, what stunning, totally original way was he supposed to have done it? And conservatives aren't listening anyway? Who said so? Enough of them sure listened to Sicko.

I think you'd like it better if Michael Moore was apologetic and self-hating in style, the way people like you expect fat, unattractive people to be. You appear to take it as a personal affront that he dares to be confident and (worse, in your eyes) shows himself in the picture. I seem to almost hear you thinking, how dare he? Hasn't he looked in a mirror? It detracts from the message to have it delivered by such a slob!

Yeah, I went there too.

Grow up a little bit, doll.

Yeah, more sensitivity. That's what the Right understands and appreciates.....

You can't persuade a Chinese firing squad to stop shooting at you if you can't speak their language.

MM is speaking the language of the Right, but not in a bad way, because he's not being disengenuous, vicious, and rude. He's also not inciting people to kill the President and people who...um...look like the President. Never, during the darkest of the Bush years, has MM said 1/10 of the things that Rush, Hannity, and Beck say weekly.

There IS a difference.