How dare you be present when men decide it's time to rape someone?!
The assault of an African-American women by three white members of Duke's lacrosse team has been getting wide coverage in the blogosphere, and now by a few major papers as well: Washington Post article here, New York Times here and here.
The blog Justice 4 Two Sisters is covering the whole story, while Ampersand has a link round up at Alas, A Blog.
Finally, Pandagon has some analysis of gang rape: The gang rape is the essential scene of the patriarchy.
As for me, I had a dustup with a co-worker over this at lunch today, fielding questions about why "they" are trying to make a racial issue out of this, why that woman was working as 'a dancer', why she had kids, why they didn't DNA test the one black guy on the team as well.
Answer key: (1) Because when someone yells racial slurs at you and attacks you, that is a racial issue, (2) Because she needed money to put herself through school and support her family (3) Because she had sex and got pregnant, and no that does not negate her right to consent to further sexual activity for the rest of her life, and (4) Because she said the attackers were white.
You would think we'd be past the time when women attack other women for daring to be raped. You would think.