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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Free and Informed Choices of Words

It may be my present interest in traditions as part of heritage; it may be the amount I keep hearing about students from 'non-traditional' backgrounds; but I'm unable to read this without thinking that the term 'non-traditional' has rather escaped its proper bounds:

This article, entitled “Girls Gone Wild” and Rape Law: Revising Contractual Concept of Consent and Ensuring an Unbiased Application of "Reasonable Doubt” When the Victim Is Non-Traditional (American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, Volume 17, Number 1, 2009), argues that the traditional contractual standard for consent applied in rape cases is erroneous and particularly harmful to non-traditional rape victims.

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