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"Racist Harvard Law Email: The Cat Fight That Turned Into a National Scandal."

Oh, no!

We cannot absolutely rule out the the possibility that women are, on average, genetically predisposed to be....

Ha. How horribly, embarrassingly messy for everyone at Harvard who took the bait. They got sucked into the vortex. They got played.

AND:  David Lat has some details. And some opinion:

Heck, this episode probably won?t even stop Steph from landing a Supreme Court clerkship. If I were in her shoes, I?d focus my efforts on Justice Clarence Thomas. Of all the members of the Court, he?d probably be most open to hiring the victim of what some conservatives might call, to paraphrase CT himself, the ?high-tech lynching [of conservative females] who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.?

He also has an update from the woman whom some accused of leaking the email. She writes:

There was no fight over a guy (this isn?t Mean Girls). I certainly didn?t yell that I would ruin Stephanie?s life.

Moreover, I didn?t forward the e-mail to BLSA, anyone in BLSA, or ATL....

I know that you would prefer anything related to two girls to be a catfight... but that just isn?t how it happened.

If you're trying to remember the "Seinfeld" reference for "cat fight," it's "The Summer of George":

Jerry: Did you tell Peterman about this?

Elaine: Well, I tried, but he thought it was some sort of cat fight.

Kramer: Cat fight?

Elaine: Ok, why? Why do guys do this? What is so appealing to men about a cat fight?

Kramer: Yeye cat fight!

Full post as published by Althouse on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).