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发帖数: 29846 | 1 October 15, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
It has been said that the students and faculty of Harvard University are
America’s “best and brightest.” This month they prove this axiom to be
mythological as they once again launch their annual “incest-fest” party
where residents of the famed Kirkland House spend the day trying to have sex
with as many house members as they can. Winners get a hearty handshake of
acknowledgement and perhaps some STDS for their “success.”
Harvard’s denizens inventively call this debauched exercise the “incest-
fest” because it is held in the Kirkland House among its residents. You see
, the residents are living in the same house, so they are like a family. So,
if they start having sex with each other it’s like “incest.” Hilarious,
no?
This “event” has been going on for some time, of course, and Harvard
authorities never say word one about it. Like most university faculties,
Harvard long ago decided to let the inmates run the asylum (literally in
this case) and have given up even a pretext of attempting to impose order
and standards on their campuses.
But one student isn’t so taken by all that wonderful “self expression”
going on at Kirkland House.
Samantha Berstler published a letter to Harvard in the school’s newspaper,
The Harvard Crimson, saying that incest isn’t “funny,” it is a crime of
sexual abuse, usually of children.
Berstler reminds Harvard’s student body that incest is not often “between
two consensual adults” but usually the result of exploitation and rape. “
Generally a father is exploiting a daughter or an older sibling is
exploiting a younger sibling,” she wrote.
Even if we bracket issues of age, supposedly “egalitarian” or “happy
incest families” cannot exist: the power differential between father and
daughter or older sibling and younger sibling is so huge that it necessarily
precludes the possibility of consent. The sexy siblings on TV and the image
of the oppressed pedophile are lies that distract from a silent epidemic
raging throughout the world.
“I am writing this because incest is notoriously invisible and leaves its
victims burdened with shame and humiliation for the rest of their lives,”
Berstler reminds her fellows.
“The name ‘IncestFest’ is not sexy or cute or clever. It’s dangerous,”
she scolds.
Berstler wraps up her sensible letter saying, “The denizens of Kirkland
House are quirky, intelligent, and sensitive. We can do better than this.”
But can they? It seems like “doing better” is not something anyone pays
much mind to in our fetid system of “higher education” these days. As
right as she is, I fear Berstler is indulging a forlorn hope here. |
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