[Ken H]

KC weighs in on an article in the Chronicle by a Duke student:

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/10/horrifying.html

Also, it looks like Cosmopolitan magazine has done a hit piece on the lax players. An anonymous poster at Durham in Wonderland wrote:

Glad others were horrified by this [Chronicle] article. When my daughter phoned today, I asked her if she had read the piece. She was furious about it (as well as the op/ed about Duke athletes). She added that her friend had just shown her an article in the latest Cosmopolitan magazine titled "The Scary Truth About Guys in Groups".

The headline reads "Otherwise decent men can morph into monsters when spurred on by a testosterone-fueled peer group. Learn what drives this dangerous pack behavior and how you can avoid falling victim to it." There is a picture of David Evans with a big headline "Third Player Indicted in Duke Rape Case."

The first three paragraphs of the story are exclusively devoted to the Duke case. Only two sentences express any doubts about the case. It then goes on to mention the Fresno case, as well as one in New York. (I picked up the issue on my way home.) The rest of the article is about "psychology of the pack", "pack and prey", "the boys club culture", and "twisted group dynamics".

[Locomotive Breath]

The Chronicle had an online poll recently wherein an overwhelming majority of the students considered the laxers innocent. Unscientific, yes, but if anything close to the truth James Zou is going to have a very uncomfortable life in the next few weeks.

As for Cosmo, what would you expect from the spawn of Helen Gurley Brown

[Jezebelle]

Maybe Cosmo should do some research on the damage that false rape claims cause for real victims, and publish THAT instead of braindead drivel.

[Fido969]

The headline reads "Otherwise decent men can morph into monsters when spurred on by a testosterone-fueled peer group. Learn what drives this dangerous pack behavior and how you can avoid falling victim to it." The "bad man" theory is a vital cornerstone of radical feminist dogma.

[luv2ski]

I hope David Evans (and the others if they are defamed as well) sue the heck out of Cosmo for that BS. There is absolutely NO excuse for that after all that we have learned in the past 6 months!

[darbymcgill]

The rest of the article is about "psychology of the pack", "pack and prey", "the boys club culture", and "twisted group dynamics".

No doubt further into the article they discuss what the estrogen laden "packs" of women have given society in the last 30 years.

They've drugged our little boys with Ritalin for "being little boys" and taken away their recess.

They've given us zero tolerance in our schools so you better not point your french fries at anyone or have a set of silverware in your trunk.

They've codified through the legal system and institutional rules of conduct, negative consequences to men for a look or a compliment.

They've given women who find themselves in a bad situation of their own devises a "get out of jail free" card by allowing them to anonymously accuse a man of sexual harassment or rape. The men are removed from their positions or arrested and the women get off scott free.

The "packs" of women have given themselves the tools to, as RS put it so eloquently and sad... "simply ruin lives by just pointing a finger"....