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In winter 2008 Heather Mac Donald wrote a now infamous piece for City Journal “The Campus Rape Myth”, arguing that the assertions of rape being a serious problem on college campuses was totally overblown by women. NPR advanced the story :Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle for Justice” in Feb 2010.

Mac Donald made mincemeat of the assertion that one in four-five women on campus has been sexually assaulted, arguing that women who drink too much and invite sex, regret it in the morning and then call it rape.

We’ll be following up with the conservative writer to read her views on latest frat boys caper, this time at the University of Vermont where the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity circulated a lifestyle survey of members with the question: “If you could rape someone, who would it be?”

Coincidentally, a major new survey was released yesterday by the federal govenment confirming the one in five number on a national scale. Anne is one of those women, but she wasn’t believed either at the time. Read on at Sensuality News

From Pew Research

Marriage Declines In 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married; today just 51% are. If current trends continue, the share of adults who are currently married will drop to below half within a few years. Other adult living arrangements-including cohabitation, single-person households and single parenthood-have all grown more prevalent in recent decades. Read full report

Re-Counting Poverty Pew issues more of a thought piece on how best to measure current poverty rates in America. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of politics involved in a sensitive measure like this one in America, where we’re all living large and poverty is only for slackers.

CBS wrote the story straight and the headlines are terrible: Census data: Half of US poor or low income. Indeed, my global friends, half of Americans are either poor or barely getting by.

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, was quick to question the results, asking if poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. In the classic Republican “just get a job” analysis of the situation he said that “while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far, citing poor people who live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.”

Brilliant Blueseed Tech Office

“Blueseed says U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of “bold and creative” entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it’s building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foot on U.S. soil.”

DFR Art & Culture

Style.com adds to the creative spurt of quality content on the web, with The Image Makers: Inez and Vinoodh, a new series focused on creators of the best of contemporary fashion photography. First up is the Dutch husband and wife team Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin.

Van Lamsweerde and Matadin are true life partners—creatively, romantically, as parents of their 9-year-old son Charles Star Matadin.

Style.com| The Kissing pictures seem like a no-brainer for the covers. Was that always the choice?

IVL: Yeah. Like you said it. They stand for everything—us, our love, two people, two volumes, the way that those three pictures have evolved. The last picture [on the outside cover] especially, you know, was made for Lanvin Homme (left)—something that started as an art piece became an ad campaign and ended up as a silk screen and became an artwork again for the show. It’s full circle.

Inez & Vinoodh AOC editorials

Divine Inspiration | 2 Ps in a Pod

Pressing Anne to personal action beyond promoting Easeamine Skin Care products, Bro Dennis suggested a joint blog. Cyberspace may not recover as we share 2Ps in a Pod.

Correlating to the fashion industry, blogging with you provides the opportunity to portray the difficulties I experience with the Catholic Church, religion, politics and economy, while seeking to explain a perspective in a down-to-earth and humble manner. Countless individuals struggle with the Catholic Church’s institutionalized realities, yet are unaware of perfection she may reveal.

In light of your perspective of women from “Fashion to Flogging”, I see the divergent offer to engage goodness.