By GAIL COLLINS
Published: March 17, 2010
The New York Times
Let’s consider the story of Representative Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from upstate New York who made headlines recently when he resigned from office amid talk about sexual harassment of male staffers.
Massa’s defense was that the questionable conduct was boisterous horseplay by an old ex-Navy officer and five of his single male aides, who roomed together in one small Washington townhouse. “Not only did I grope him,” he said of one of his roommates, “I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and four guys jumped on top of
