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...many are well aware, during the recent "Take Back the Night" rally, a young man stood at the open microphone a monologue involving anti-feminist japes. The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) Quadrangle was a tough crowd that night--before the man reached the punchline of his first joke, two women rushed up and asked him to leave. I was that young...
Listening to the women that night, what I heard had nothing to do with hating men or blaming men in general for their "problems" (an interesting way to refer to sexual abuse). kelly implies that everyone, including peninsula-types, cares equally about ending violence against women, and thus the "feminist" perspective of Take Back the Night is deceptively biased against conservative views on the issue...
...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...
...Bowdren is entitled to dismiss Take Back the Night as nothing more than a "militant feminist yahoo festival." However, in publishing this profoundly prejudicial column on the day of the rally without a counter-balancing opinion, The Crimson did a disservice to is readership...
...campus, it's a controversial subject, with articles and editorials about Take Back the Night appearing in publications ranging from The Crimson to Perspective to Peninsula. Does it empower women? Does it make them victims? Or is Take Back the Night merely a smoke screen for a militantly feminist anti-male agenda...