We're not condoning putting any of these sorts of things in writing or within range of the Internet, especially when using the real names of your partners. But you know what? Here's another reminder that women can be as flip, aggressive, or acquisitive about sex as men can. And there's nothing wrong with that, as long as all parties are consenting. (Of course, these guys didn't consent to have their performances publicly evaluated, but there you go. Again, people, do not put it in writing.)posted by smackfu at 10:27 AM on October 5, 2010
Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years. [emphasis added]Sections 286 and 288 address sodomy and oral copulation under similar "intoxicating or anesthetic substance" circumstances. Same penalty.
High School Boys Rack Up Points for Scoring With Girls.posted by ericb at 12:09 PM on October 5, 2010
Maureen Dowd | New York Times: Their Dangerous Swagger.
Girl you are never going to make in this world with PowerPoints like that and I don't mean the content, I mean the formatting. PowerPoint is about making a visual statement to connect with your audience as your speak and reinforce your message. These slides fail to accomplish that with their awful pictorial and text heavy bullet formats.The problem is that power point is being used more and more to actually deliver the content, rather then as something that goes on in the background while you talk. So you see this in people emailing powerpoint slides to eachother, which completely defeats the point.
"Interestingly, Jezebel redacted the names of all those involved and blurred out the athletes’ faces. Deadspin, on the other hand, did not.posted by ericb at 12:56 PM on October 5, 2010 [2 favorites]
When something like this goes viral, it’s hard to keep people’s identities under wraps. Mainstream blogs often deliberate on whether to reveal people’s identities at the risk of being sued for defamation and invasion of privacy. It’s strange that the bloggers at Gawker came to two different conclusions on how to handle it.
... When Owen realized that this list was going to go viral, she deleted all of her social network profiles, reports Irin Carmon at Jezebel. That’s unwise. Now the stories on her 'senior thesis' are going to take over the Google search result hits on her name. If this ever happens to you, it’s best to keep your LinkedIn profile and Facebook page up, just make sure to lock down the privacy settings so that nosy journalists like me can’t come looking.
Thanks to the friend that forwarded this on, Owen will never be able to escape this incident (unless she changes her name), so she may as well embrace it. The text in her PowerPoint attests to her writing abilities — a book deal could certainly be in her future, or at least a part-time gig as a sex columnist.
There’s no going back now, but maybe Owen should have written out her thesis with pen on real paper, or printed out just one copy that she shared with her friends in person. By putting it in an electronic format and sending it out by email, she practically invited it to go viral."
[289](k) As used in this section:A later subsection defines "sexual activity" as including sexual intercourse, sodomy ("sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person"), oral copulation ("the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person"), sexual penetration (defined above), and frottage and public masturbation (although they don't use the terms "frottage" or "masturbation").
(1) "Sexual penetration" is the act of causing the penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of any person or causing another person to so penetrate the defendant's or another person's genital or anal opening for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any unknown object.
(2) "Foreign object, substance, instrument, or device" shall include any part of the body, except a sexual organ.
(3) "Unknown object" shall include any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or any part of the body, including a penis, when it is not known whether penetration was by a penis or by a foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any other
part of the body.
friendlyjuan: duvatney:It's kind of a sidebar, but would someone who understands the law please explain why this seems to be the case- and if it's really what guys like me think, which is that it's a backlash double standard. Namely, that we as a society corrected for inequities and may now have overcompensated by enshrining some severe double-standards into law (which themselves reflect the original patriarchal thinking by effectively considering men the "beastly aggressor" and women the "doe-eyed delicate flower"). As friendlyjuan points out, if you truly think men and women can be equals, then sometimes two drunk people having "consensual" drunk sex is just that- a one night stand that doesn't rise to legal or moral judgment.
If both parties are wasted and "decide" to have sex, why should the man get the blame and the woman get a free pass?
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I guess what gets my goat is that in a situation in which both parties are intoxicated why is the man always assumed to be a rapist and the woman some sort of unwilling participant? Surely since both parties in my hypothetical are intoxicated, neither was capable of giving consent, both are equally at fault and it should be considered a wash? Seems to me that should be the conclusion in a society in which both sexes are (ostensibly) treated equally. That doesn't make it any more distasteful, but at least we don't brand one of the idiots who engaged in drunken sex a sexual predator for life
It's just insanely ironically naive that she didn't stop to think about how the very purpose of all of this nifty software we've got these days is to make dissemination of information really easy.Sure, but most things don't go viral just because you release them to a few friends. This girl was particularly witty, if the language was more banal it probably wouldn't have been forwarded very far.
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