NEWS’ VIEW: The legacy of the Elevate raid               • The
Anti-Yale      “but we know other New Haveners have seen much
worse — and their plight has received far less attention.”
This is an important point. But it is larger than New Haven,
larger even than tasers and testosterone.      It has to do with
males and authority and weapons (and has migrated to women in
and our of uniforms imitating males): New York; Los Angeles;
Kent, Ohio; Jackson Mississippi; Abu Gharib; and recently
latrine Marines at some unknown place in Afghanistan.      Once-
upon-a-time London Bobbies did not carry weapons at all and
their authority (their masculinity?) did not suffer.      Once
upon a time.      We are a world of insecure males and wanna-be
males worshiping weapons and authority—-from the Thatchers to
the Amahdinejads to the Rumsfelds.      It goes on.       •
penny_lane        Characterizing women as “wanna-be men” is
deeply offensive to both sexes. Women are capable of aggression
all on their own. Blaming men f