Amanda Knox

My one and only post on this subject will just point to the one by John Hinderaker, in case any of my readers care.

[Update early afternoon]

OK, one more — Amanda Knox as femme fatale:

One lady I know offered the view that the femme fatale was a totally self-generated male creation. “The self-destructive acts are not orchestrated by women of some preternatural cunning. Most femme fatales do nothing. All the work is done by the men themselves. Femme fatales are only ordinary women who’ve accidentally found the right combination of buttons to push to make men do what they want. It is the fantasy of men that does the rest.” Her explanation made me uneasy because I had heard the same argument offered, in a political context, to explain the 2008 presidential elections. But in that view, we will never know any more about Amanda Knox than we will ever know about Barack Obama. Maybe neither actually exists as we think they do, except in our imaginations.

Well, the evidence against Obama continues to accumulate.

6 thoughts on “Amanda Knox”

  1. I can appreciate our media’s attention to one of our own but it would have been nice if they covered the other people involved in this case as well.

  2. You know the real winner here is the Italian justice system.

    Now that this case is over, they can get back to prosecuting divorcees who occasionally menstruate twice a month for witchcraft.

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