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This could have easily been any other university; hell, it could have been any other city. The more I think about the case, the more I think issues of class are circumstantial. How many strip clubs are there in America? How many men have been to one? A lot, yes? There aren't enough mansioned scions of boardmen to go around. Do I really see a group of young males from any socioeconomic cross-section treating a woman they hired to dance in a dwindling state of dress with the utmost respect? I think it's more male entitlement than economic.
I hope I didn't read LeCastor unsarcastically earlier, because I agree: there's something about hiring an exotic dancer that makes me recoil. I acknowledge the transaction as a fact of culture, so I can't really condemn either party on that fact alone. But if you made the lacrosse boys construction foremen, hopefully the outrage at a rape (if it is proved to've occurred) would be just as great. Money can build hospitals, and money can bury sins. But I see the base tendencies of the Durham debacle in more men than the moneyed.
