Comments on: Under the old code we had ample condemnatory terms

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:54:09 +0000

“…social equivalent of a cartel: if you want the sex, you’re going to first have to invest in some sort of relationship…”

Divorce laws being what they are, that contract is broken.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:58:29 +0000

As peculiar as the comment might be from me, McArdle may be overstating just a tad.

Some of the cases that have drawn the most press attention seem to have wildly exceeded the bounds of “mutually drunken encounters” or “horrible one night stands”.

Then again, some cases do enter this territory.

Many examples also seem to take clumsy opening moves like old-school touching of the knee to be a horrifying bodily violation, which strikes me as [non-metaphorically] insane. But then that might just be in the British version of this argument. They tend to extremes when their native sentimentalism is engaged.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 23:25:52 +0000

“as if we lived in an ideal world where being the person most likely or able to change something was always neatly synonymous with being the person who caused the problem in the first place.”

Congratulations, Ms. McArdle, you have won the Gaikokumaniakku Award for Excessively Hedged Writing!