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Old 09-01-2008, 08:46 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Okay...I'm just wanting to get at whether the dynamic changes once a woman is in a relationship. And I understand that it does.

What I don't understand is what makes it alright when she is not in a relationship. Why we would want to give the idea to anyone that it is alright.

In the main story of the article, I don't get the impression that the trip to the rain forest was a direct exchange...rather the sex was a consequence. I think her story is a reach, an attempt to make an issue out of something more mundane. And, in fact, a patriarchal attempt to alarm people. Which is being used to spur a debate that is quite different from that being posed in the story...I take exception to it.
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