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Aziz Ansari is guilty. Of not being a mind reader

Yet Ansari, in a statement responding to Grace's story, said that "by all indications" the encounter was 'completely consensual'

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Aziz Ansari (Photo: Wikipedia)

Bari Weiss | NYT
I’m apparently the victim of sexual assault. And if you’re a sexually active woman in the 21st century, chances are that you are, too.

That is what I learned from the “exposé” of Aziz Ansari published this weekend by the feminist website Babe — arguably the worst thing that has happened to the #MeToo movement since it began in October. It transforms what ought to be a movement for women’s empowerment into an emblem for female helplessness.

The headline primes the reader to gird for the very worst: “I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night