Apparently rape isn’t about power relations at all--it's just bad manners.

David Brooks’ Sunday column, Virtues and Victims, sets it all straight for us silly lasses who had the audacity to think that rape was about anything else than the loss of chivalry. (You know, cause back in the “chivalrous� days rape didn’t exist.)

I came to this horror of a column a bit later than most, so rather than repeat what’s already been said, I’m going to point you in the direction of four very smart ladies and their take on this nonsense:

Echidne, The Good Ole Boy Pines For The Good Ole Chivalry
Pandagon (Amanda), Bobo writes a rape apology
Feministe (Jill), Those Duke Boys Just Needed A Dose Of Chivalry
Majikthise (Lindsay), David Brooks on the Duke lacrosse gang rape