Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.