Word: columnizing
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Piotr C. Brzezinski ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...column about Duke rape case (“Rushing to Rape,” Apr. 18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 describes the injustice that the now-exonerated indictees have faced. Unfortunately, she also chooses to offer unwarranted inferences about their moral character. She says they are “probably not the most respectable college students on the planet” and are “not likely” her kind of dating material...
...column “Rushing to Rape” (Apr.18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 falsely attributes mistakes made in the Duke “rape” case to the larger movement to raise awareness about sexual violence and its victims. Aside from generalizations and mischaracterizations she makes about Take Back the Night, Caldwell casts aside years of rigorous empirical findings and asserts that a woman can best protect herself against violence by taking responsibility for her own social and sexual behavior. Of course, actual research concluding that education on the prevalence, consequences, and forms of sexual...
Lucy M. Caldwell’s column “Rushing to Rape” (Apr. 18) rushed to its own uninformed conclusion: women should prevent sexual assault by “taking control of [their] sexual behavior.” Rather than ascribing responsibility for sexual violence to the attackers, she suggests that women should stop giving men the opportunity and the cause, from excessive alcohol consumption to unclear relationship expectations, to rape them. She also writes that “morning-after guilt and regrets can give way to overblown cries of violation or abuse...
...sexual violence. By focusing only on victims, many people tacitly excuse the attackers from responsibility. Rape cases often become interrogations of victims, their social lives, and the relational circumstances surrounding the rapes. Victims are forced to defend their own innocence because of the widespread attitudes Caldwell’s column advocates. Whether a victim is a stripper, wears short skirts, or attends Harvard University is irrelevant; all accusations need to be treated seriously. To do otherwise suggests that certain classes of women deserve or invite the attacks that take place. No one asks to be raped, no one deserves...