We sit around the table in the jury room and argue for hours, - TopicsExpress



          

We sit around the table in the jury room and argue for hours, conflicted and confused: Haven’t we all done things we didn’t want to do? That’s called life. She got up there on the stand and said she loves him. In the end, we can’t agree to call it rape. They’re both young and foolish, we rationalize. None of us wants to be responsible for ruining a young man’s life. After we deliver our not-guilty verdict, the prosecutor comes storming back. She is furious, her red hair ablaze. She says, What is it about ‘no means no’ that you all don’t understand? -Margot Singer, The Normal School #Longreads blog.longreads/2014/08/05/call-it-rape/
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:21:33 +0000

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