Word: bowdren
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...rally over the years had always been colored by political rhetoric, talk of "empowerment" and diatribes against patriarchy. The march that followed this year's rally included chants of "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! the Peninsula has got to go!" and, more ad hominem, "Hey, Hey! HO, Ho! Kelly Bowdren's got to go!" I fail to see how these dismal dithryambs serve the cause of women's safety...
...These arguments, however, have been met with little in the way of rational discourse Deborah Wexler explained that, in considering whether to write a letter about Peninsula's response to campus feminism, she "decided not to stoop to the level." But what is our level--complete English sentences? Kelly Bowdren's editorial, which appeared in The Crimson on the day of the rally ("Take You Night and..." April 21, 1994) led to the bacchanalian couplet mentioned above...
Rallying behind Bowdren in last Saturday's Crimson, Amy Trent maintains that, "accusations, no matter how justified they may seem to the accuser...never resolve conflicts...
...fact remains that over 95 percent of all rapists and batterers are men--this is not feminist militancy, this is reality. Bowdren mocks the rally's participants for considering "the problem of violence against women lodged in the institution of patriarchy, and for some, just men in general...
...welcome Bowdren's call for compassion, but as far as the rally and march go, why and how can we expect survivors of abuse not to express anger at their aggressor...