Thank u -Alexandra

@dankprof: “Harassess” — obviously a typo. “Who did she harass?” — most likely a grammatical error. No need to be pompous.

I knew Lisa Chavez many years ago, and liked her a lot. I would like to support her in her time of trial. But that doesn’t alter the fact that what she did was highly questionable by most people’s standards, and by my standards downright wrong. Isn’t it likely that the staff at UNM who want her out are motivated more by notions of proper professional conduct than by personal animus? If you believe the case to be otherwise, I think you should provide some evidence.

http://www.crimefilenews.com/2009/05/phil-spector-was-railroaded-in-legal.html

http://www.crimefilenews.com/2010/03/phil-spectors-murder-trial-was-absolute.html

Lynch Mobs love celebrities plus the helpless too, and this case proves in LA County – you can’t fight a government lynch mob even if you pay for a platoon of the best defense lawyers.

That ‘consensual” is not in power imbalance relationships is absolutely NOT why we have statutory rape laws. We have statutory rape laws because we perceive the minor 13, 14, 15 year olds you reference as legally incapable of giving valid consent. We say this because we perceive them as being mentally incapable of understanding the implications of the decision(s) they are making, so even if they say “yes” they don’t understand enough about what that yes means for it to have any real weight, so to protect them we (society) say that others may not rely on this consent. It is paternalism that most would deem permissible because they are children, with the age at which such consent is deemed valid varying based on the jurisdiction and the age of the sexual partner. It is also relevant to your straw-man arguments (if you are going to make them, make them right) that there has been much debate over the reasonableness of consent being valid one day and invalid the next because of a birthday that can not be ignored with such an irrelevant toss as “the laws arent for the right minded – they are for the predators” in light of the fact that statutory rape laws apply to two 16 year olds having sex (both would be charged with statutory rape because laws are now gender neutral as they should be) but the day one of these teens turns 17 then the sex is no longer statutory rape and is a permissible sexual relation with valid consent (unless its forcible rape of course). So your points are not only bat-s*** but flat out wrong, and actually disprove your own arguments. It is precisely applying the theory of statutory rape law of mental incapacity to consent to adult females in power-imbalanced relationships that is so wrong. It is that paternalism that is so wrong. It is by making such an argument, and assuming you or others know what is best for young females but they don’t, that women continued to be demeaned and subjugated in our society. Women should not promote an image of other women as helpless victims incapable of functioning under unequal conditions of power. Women should not be in the business of reducing the range of available choices to other women, not matter how much they may disagree with those womens decisions or the wisdom behind them. And women absolutely should not be urging INSTITUTIONS to disregard other womens’ own testimony about their lives, goals, and emotional commitments. To subjugate each other as such dis-serves our gender overall, and combined with the proposed paternalism, risks returning us to a state submissive to male dominance rather than the empowerment towards which we have been working so diligently .

Jones also became friends with actress *Sharon Tate* and her husband *Roman Polanski*. He claimed later to have had an affair with Tate (while she was pregnant with Polanski’s child), and to have had a premonition of her death, before she was murdered by members of the Manson family.

This and the death of Sharon Tate took a personal toll on Jones, who returned from Ireland to California after filming ended (staying for a time in the caretaker’s cottage behind the house where Tate had died), and abandoned his acting career…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Jones_%28actor%29