Word: orwellian
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...editorial "An Orwellian Nightmare" (March 8), Jon E. Morgan writes, "'No' is the bare minimum statement to constitute resistance" by a woman to a man's sexual advances. In other words, until a woman explicitly states otherwise, a man has the right to have sex with her. Morgan's backwards logic is unforgiveably offensive...
...expect that you're going to receive a lot of responses to Jon E. Morgan's article "An Orwellian Nightmare." I am not writing, as I suspect many people may, to protest the printing of the article. Mr. Morgan brings up some very good points in the article concerning the possibility for not understanding what date rape is, and I do not disagree with some of what he has said. However, he has evidently missed the point of everything that has gone on in this community this year concerning educating the community about acquaintance rape. The people who have been...
HAVING BEEN singled out for crtiticism in Jon Eliot Morgan's March 8 editorial, "An Orwellian Nightmare" about the prevalence of false rape charges, I feel compelled to defend myself. Morgan points to my essay, "Calling it Rape," that ran in the Febraury 7 issue of What is to be Done? as an example of an incident that has been innaccurately termed "acquaintance rape...
Rape is ugly, violent and dehumanizing. It makes its victims fear their communities, and is a painful reminder to all civilized people of the results of not respecting the sovereignty of an individual. Rape is a crime, and rapists belong in prison. Sadly, rape has become an Orwellian political weapon with no fixed definition...
While we would not call Viggiani's implementation an "Orwellian nightmare," it is nevertheless paternalistic and destructive. Holding forums, encouraging discussions of negotiating compromises among residents could have made all parties aware of one anothers' concerns and placed choice and responsibility in residents' hands...