In the dust-up over a Harvard professor’s recent disorderly conduct arrest, three men shot from the hip and misfired, while one untrained but careful woman acted responsibly.  As Wendy Murphy, attorney for the 911 caller pointed out in a press conference:
As this story has unfolded (as you all know), we’ve talked a lot about and debated the overreactions of three men, Professor Gates, Sergeant Crowley, and even President Obama, all men with special training, in one way or another, on the important topics at issue in this controversy. Well, I’m …

There are 900,000 teen pregnancies annually (11-12% of all births in US).
22% of teen girls have been sexting (sending out nude or semi nude photos of themselves)
29% of single households led by women are below the poverty level (12% for
men).
Women represent 52% of the voters yet are only 17% of our government representation.
The US ranks 29th in infant mortality rates.  We were 12th in 1960; we now tie with Slovakia and lag behind Cuba.
The US ranks 27th in the 2008 Global Gender Gap study of economic opportunity, education, political empowerment and …

1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
Only half of domestic violence incidents are reported to the police.
17.6% of women in the United States have survived a completed or attempted rape.
The FBI estimates that only 37% of rapes are reported to the police.

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Americans tend to think of forced prostitution as the plight of Mexican or Asian women trafficked into the United States and locked up in brothels. Such trafficking is indeed a problem, but the far greater scandal and the worst violence involves teenage girls.
These words are from Nicholas Kristof’s  New York Times Op-Ed two days ago. Kristof point out an ugly truth:  forced prostitution is not merely a problem in faraway countries; it’s happening right here to our American girls, in our American cities and towns.
Kristof tells a heartbreaking story …