I was standing at the corner of Broad and Chestnut this week when a small group of youngish women and about three or four oldish men marched by, most of them chanting, “We Are Jane Doe.”

The men were uncomfortably silent, likely realizing how ridiculous they looked. They didn’t tie up traffic, and they were basically well-behaved. They were a lot more polite than the Free Palestine crazies who occupied a corner of Rittenhouse Square earlier in the week. In terms of a protest, it was lukewarm, somewhere between Kumbaya-with-Patchouli and a riot.

We’ve all been bombarded with punditry about the Cornell Rape saga. I’ve expressed my own opinion that given the peculiarities of New York criminal statutes, any prosecution seems doomed. And so far, we’re only dealing with the lawsuit from “Jane.” So this little parade down Broad Street was so unremarkable that it........

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