Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represetnation of women as sub-human "slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," but in its message that women enjoy male sexual violence and aggression; "grateful heffers (sic)" As Chris Hayes pointed out in her insightful letter to The Crimson, the rape mentality created by pornography, and the Pi Eta club, allows men to sexually coerce and rape women with impunity. After all, "she wanted...
...author of the proposed Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance) put it in a speech at the Law School last week, is "will they do it for women?" MacKinnon and other feminist scholars are presently arguing, and I agree, that we ought to consider pornography (such as the Pi Eta letter) as a question of competing rights to free speech. We must weigh the rights of the pornographers against the rights of women who are silenced by pornography--who must live in fear of the sexual violence which pornographers portray as erotic and enjoyable...
Most alarming of all is the implication in the Pi Eta newsletter that "get[ting] laid" is one of the benefits of paying membership, dues. How respected will a female guest's "no" be in light of this guarantee? Many of the women, especially those from other schools, were not aware that they were to be considered open game at the Pi party. Far beyond issues of free speech, the newsletter presents a real safety issue for women where such a party is represented in a very different fashion to club members and their invited female guests. (Women at other...
...believe that on a national level we need to seriously consider the issue of pornography as a direct threat to women's safety, freedom of movement and freedom of speech. Within the Harvard community, we must also recognize the threat to women presented by the Pi Eta's depiction of women as sub-human prey for sexual violence. If Harvard can shut the Pi Eta down because of the club's initiation rites, it can certainly do so on the basis of this (especially given that it is already on probation). Harvard has demonstrated its muscle in cases of student...
...light of the recent press which the Pi Eta Speakers Club and its newsletter have caused during the last week, we find that the degree of response has been heartening because one sees that there are people out there who are concerned about the sexism that exists at Harvard. However, the attitude of those who seek to formally censure and, in an extreme way, close down the Pi Eta Club is, at best, idealistic, in that it is based on the assumption that to eliminate the Pi means to eliminate the sexism from our community. What such actions will...