Monday, September 29

The Problem with Camille.

Paglia too often seems to use the facts to fit her pet theories about women.

In her latest article about predatory behavior against college-aged students, for example, she misses all the cases here in the Midwest about male college students gone missing after a night of "partying" (drinking) too.

Why, a freshman at North Dakota State, a popular and large young man who was a standout athlete (basketball player) at his high school, recently turned up dead -- his body discovered across the river near University of Minnesota-Moorhead.

Often, the bodies of missing Midwestern college men -- who disappear walking home alone after drinking -- turn up days, weeks or months later in a river or body of water.  With no evidence of foul play, and evidence that the students were intoxicated beforehand, it's assumed they innocently met their fates.

Even a prominent fooball coach's son died this way in recent years.  It's not an unknown phenomena.

This time though -- the young man, Thomas Bearson -- was found killed, though police are not yet saying how.  With an intact body, more clues will come.  Vulnerable men can be killed, and sexually assaulted too.  Even big men, when alcohol or drugs leaves them in a compromised state.

Paglia should update her schtick for the times, understanding that with updated technology, drugs, and a binging culture, it's not just young women at risk of being preyed upon.