She's largely correct

Sally Jenkins had a fine piece in the Washington Post on May 8 discussing the likes of George Huguely, Ben Roethlisberger and Lawrence Taylor, and asking, "Is there something in our sports culture that condones these assaults?"

Toward the end of the column, Jenkins writes, "What has happened to kindness, to the cordial pleasures of friendship between men and women in the sports world? Above all, what has happened to sexuality? When did the most sublime human exchange become more about power and status than romance? When did it become so pornographic and transactional, so implacably cold?"

Then she adds, "The truth is, women can't do anything about this problem. Men are the only ones who can change it ..."

Now, she largely right. But not completely. In some of these situations — some of them — women can do something about it — they can not throw themselves at these jerk jocks.

Now, hear me: When they do, that doesn't give a Roethlisberger, say, the right to act the way he acted in that Milledgeville, Ga., bar, but it does add to a Roethlisberger's already-overlarge sense of entitlement.

When rich, famous male athletes come together with young women and alcohol, this is not an unusual scenario.

Jenkins' column:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050704895.html