It is extremely revealing that you chose to reduce the original discussion--about whether Roiphe's claims about feminists, and the problem of rape, were at all accurate--to a quibble over whether we should prosecute children who rape as adults, or as children. Your initial complaints had nothing to do with the relative punishments which ought to be meted out to rapists based on their age, but you have chosen to respond only to this issue. Perhaps you would have had to admit that you made a series of unfounded and, at best, offensive remarks about sexual assault and feminism.
And for the record, I believe that a child is perfectly capable of intentional sexual assault. I also do not believe that a child should be penalized for this assault in the same way as an adult would be, particularly because there is a great deal of hope that education and therapy may benefit a younger offender.
Jane G.
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