Harvard

Today, six men accused of gang rape in India head to court. If that sounds eerily familiar, it's because just two months ago, six other men also went to trial for gang rape in India in a high-profile case involving a woman fatally assaulted on the bus in New Dehli. 

After these terrible crimes come to light, we all want to see them result in major change. Harvard University is sponsoring a policy task force “to offer recommendations to India and other South Asian countries." But the group received a critique from Delhi blogger Nivedita Menon, who wrote in a post called "Harvard to the Rescue!" that Harvard would be better able to discuss rapein South Asia not from the ivory tower, but by consulting with feminists on the ground in India.

There’s at least one dimension to the Harvard story that I – and the mainstream media – missed the other day. The douchebag angle!