ANN ALTHOUSE BUSTS FRANK BRUNI FOR DISHONESTY ON RAPE:

Reading the line quoted above, what I found myself wondering — darkly wondering? — is whether Bruni should have noted that he is gay and thus not susceptible to the “ineradicable predatory streak” that he imagines leads to the sexual assault of young women. Is it wrong to write something like that about men and not address his own exclusion from the category he’s derogating? Maybe. There’s added authority in running down one’s own kind.

A more serious omission here, however, is that sexual assault in the military happens to men even more than to women. If homosexual encounters are a big part of the problem, then Bruni is protecting his own kind, and the eclipsing of his exclusion from the heterosexual group he insults becomes much more problematic.

Ouch.