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Group Members, Hypocrisy, & Karen Owen

By K.C. Johnson

I haven?t commented on the Karen Owen affair because Owen?s affront to basic decency seemed so obvious. (Owen, for those unaware, is the Duke graduate who chronicled, through a PowerPoint replete with photos, her sexual exploits with multiple male Duke student-athletes.) The PowerPoint went viral, and even prompted a Today Show segment, which helpfully used Owen?s actions to recall the lacrosse case?insinuating that a false allegation against Duke male students, inflamed by a rogue district attorney, had relevance to an invasion of privacy by a Duke female student, after voluntary sexual intercourse. It?s not difficult to imagine how the Duke campus would have responded had the genders of the Owen affair been reversed?i.e., if a male Duke student had publicized, sometimes in mocking terms, his sexual interactions with multiple Duke female student-athletes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 30, 2010 (boomark / email).