Backlash to Columnist Emily Yoffe on "Avoid Rape, Don't Drink Column


Slate contributor Emily Yoffe talks to Brooke Baldwin about her controversial column about women, rape and alcohol.

In one awful high-profile case after another — the U.S. Naval Academy; Steubenville, Ohio; now the allegations in Maryville, Mo. — we read about a young woman, sometimes only a girl, who goes to a party and ends up being raped. As soon as the school year begins, so do reports of female students sexually assaulted by their male classmates [...]

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