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pharyngula, a reminder of why we still need feminism:

You're a girl. And girls shouldn't read big books like that. It's too thick. Boys don't like girls who read thick books. You want boys to like you, don't you?

And it's worse in Nigeria:

Most victims are college students such as Chioma, a slim, quiet 22-year-old with a B average, who repeatedly failed political science after refusing her teacher's explicit demands for sex. She said he was a pastor and old enough to be her grandfather.

"Now it has been two years and everyone else has graduated," she said sadly, arms folded neatly in her lap. She is desperate to finish her studies and begin working to help support her family, yet "my life is stopped," she said.

(Not that that sort of thing can't happen over here - I knew of one academic at ANU who made a habit of preying on postgrad students - but it's nowhere near as widespread or institutionalised.)