Letters to the Editor
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Well, I don't know if you can infer rape that easily, Tracy
Because if you are forced to sleep with your teacher for a good grade, that's not rape. You consented to the act itself. So, it depends on what this coercion is exactly like. Maybe the wording was overreaching.
But it's true that that is not the main point of this woman's argument, which is quite reprehensible, and it's hard to resist the temptation to compare this to the racial segregation in the military until Truman, and to the ongiong "don't ask, don't tell" policy, the main justification for which now seems to me that soldiers are homophobic, and so we don't want to anger them, nor endager the gay troops.
Well, what do you expect from a woman who also blames feminism and our "permissive culture" for the emergence of "purity balls."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2007/03/23/extreme_fathers_of_the_bride
This woman seems to misunderstand the concept of personal responsibility for one's actions, i.e. no one forced you to rape that sodlier, no one forced you to have a purity ball. Except of course when it comes to women having sex -- then they and their fetuses are responsible for everything bad.