Dear Readers:   The main thing keeping me from commenting on the
story, though, isn't the fact that watching progressives happily
dismiss serious allegations against one of their heroes as long
as they come from women throws me into a funk. It's the other,
less convenient one that this is a rape case and ought to be
treated as such (provided, of course, that he did it). I can't
say what I keep wanting to say: "It is perfectly obvious when
something is rape and when it isn't, so why are we even arguing
about it?"  Let's first be sure that we understand that Miss A's
allegation is that she said, "Stop, not without a condom," and
he held her down and did it anyway, without a condom and without
her consent, IOW, rape.  This brings us to this utterly creepy
other category that rarely gets discussed: quasi-nonconsensual
or barely-consensual sex. I wish it didn't exist. It muddies the
waters and gives ammunition to the would-be dismissers of sex
crimes and lionizers of sex-criminals. But sadly, not all of
what we us