From the New York Times:
President Vladimir V. Putin has a penchant for making pithy, acerbic, sometimes coarse comments. On Wednesday a microphone inadvertently left on during a brief appearance with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel captured his views on the sex scandal involving Israel's president.
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Kommersant's version — citing the remarks in Russian — was cruder. "He turned out to be quite a powerful man," the paper's reporter in the official Kremlin pool, Andrei Kolesnikov, quoted Mr. Putin as saying. "He raped 10 women. I never expected it from him. He surprised all of us. We all envy him."
What kind of a feminist analysis should I do on this? That Russia has a long way to go, perhaps? And so does this world?
Perhaps it's adequate to note that Mr. Putin identifies with the rapist and not with the rape victims.
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Mr. Putin gets the Cooties Award, First Class, for this "joke".