Susan Estrich is a cow, that it is to say gender feminist, with a chip on her shoulder. In her column, “The Dregs Of Duke” she sees fit to bash every male on whiich she can get her keyboard, but has nary a harsh word to say about any woman.
There are no heroes and no winners in the Duke lacrosse case, unless you count the North Carolina Board of Bar Overseers, which clearly did the right thing in disbarring the rogue prosecutor.
“No Heros”, bunk! Three innocent young men have been saved from judicial lynching and apparently won a settlement with a sexist and racist unversity.
Finally, there are the young men themselves. Make no mistake. They didn’t deserve what they got. But they were not drinking tea in church when this incident began. They had engaged strippers to entertain them while they drank and taunted them
Granted paying two young women what two hundred bucks to take off their clothes is not exactly the deed of a Boy Scout. Yet taking said two hundred buck to strip off your clothes is not the deed of Girl Scout either.
No one has denied that racial slurs were uttered, that the girls were treated badly, so badly that they left but were later convinced to return for more abuse. No one has questioned the authenticity of an e-mail sent to the group by one of the uncharged teammates, promising to “skin” the girls next time he had the chance. No, it wasn’t rape, but it wasn’t respect, either.
No one is denying that the guys asked for white strippers and got two young black women instead. What were the young women treated like? Strippers. Maybe the young men did learn something while attending Duke after all? Estrich faults the young men for not respect these whores, strippers. How much respect were these young working women entitled? They got paid. What else was due them?
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