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Neomi Rao's "Shades of gray" is 50 shades of stupid

Donald Trump's pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on appeals court is none other than Neomi Rao, who has come under fire for some op-eds she wrote in college. In the October 14, 1994 edition of The Yale Herald , Rao wrote an op-ed entitled, "Shades of gray," where she wrote the following: "As a young girl I always liked playing with the boys. And I still do. Lucky for us, matronly women no longer lock up college girls in dorms at night. Today, women can drink and run around with the wildest of boys. But with freedom from social constraints comes new responsibilities-responsibilities which are all too easy to ignore. Not a year passes without the confusing, bitter, and problematic question of date rape arising on campus. Incidents involving the 'DKE rapist' and David Bialsky have shown how the battle between the sexes has no easy answers. In the most recent case, a woman accused a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of rape, ...