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Being new to the town, my opinion was solicited by all and sundry. My comments were twofold. First, Powers High School, and America, needs to get over its juvenile, hypocritical, totalitarian attitude towards sexuality, especially teen sexuality. Second � and even more important � I suggested that questioners reverse genders in the incident, and then ask themselves: What would their attitude be were an eighteen-year-old male to run naked through a shower room with five girls in it?

I left the answers to them, but in case you�ve been living on Pluto the past four decades, I�ll update you: That boy � man they would have called him, or better still male -- would have been lucky to make it to court with all his equipment intact. Police, prosecutors, townspeople, school authorities, women�s center and rape crisis demagogues, and the local chipmunks and lizards would have demanded his head on a platter. They wouldn�t be referring to a male streaker as a �little boy,� that�s for sure. Instead, he�d be in state prison right now, unsuccessfully fending off beatings and sodomy by Bubba, and America would be nodding its collective head and rooting Bubba on.

That brings us to Coeur d�Alene�s remake of �Sex, Lies and Videotape.�

Here, a high-school girl decides to indulge in a goof with a bunch of baseball jocks. She wants to be the star of her own video, and a knot of high-school boys are only too glad to help her. Everybody�s hormones are raging, and nobody�s holding a gun to anybody�s head. On the contrary, reports indicate that the sex and video were the girl�s idea. That�s not an offer many high-school-age males are going to refuse.

Word, unfortunately, gets around very quickly, and as in so many other similar incidents, the female and her parents decide that their baby�s reputation � and especially their own -- must be Protected at all costs. Guess who pays those costs?

Shunning self-responsibility, the parents blow the whistle for the Authorities, claiming their baby has been brutalized. A sixteen-year-old female in America can�t, after all, have sexual urges, much less act volitionally upon them. Deny, deny, deny.

Initially, Kootenai County Sheriff Capt. Ben Wolfinger says charges are unlikely because not only was the girl�s participation willing, but the whole idea was hers. Very quickly, however, the forces of American �justice� converge � parents, school authorities, prosecutors, �victim�s rights� ideologues, �rape crisis� junkies. Smelling blood, the false Protectors of the feminine descend upon the scene like vultures of the goddess. Wolfinger�s na�ve and brief attempt at reason and fairness is trampled by the mob, and he is forced to retreat.

Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas presses for felony charges of �photographic representation of sexual conduct which involves children.� Although under the law the girl is equally guilty for molesting underage boys, only the boys are charged. Douglas presents the twisted logic of American gender justice thus: �I�m going to guard [the girl�s] privacy. She�s a victim and we are regarding her as a victim.�

Well, gee. Now who is it old Bill�s working for again? Would that be the �patriarchy�?

Lisa Randall, program coordinator for The Women�s Center, Inc. of Coeur d�Alene, was paraphrased as follows in the Spokane Spokesman-Review (7/11/01): �Randall � said she sensed from comments from coaches and baseball officials [the boys were baseball players] that much of the blame was focused on the girl.�

Indeed. Well, we�ll nip that kind of thinking right in the bud. As in domestic violence�s arrest-the-male-only policies, the victim is always right, and the victim is always female.

Randall was quoted further: �The focus needs to be on the victim � people need to be held accountable.� Every male in feminized America knows exactly who the Program Coordinator means by �people.� Not her gender of people, that's for sure.



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