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...Prabhu got used to it, thought; through her continued activism on date rape, her work in producing a lengthy council report on the subject, she "acquired both the reputation as a strident feminst and a bitch, unfortunately...
When the council's executive board discussed the "Viggiani report"--an administrative committee report recommending "expressed consent" as the standard for permissible sex--most male council members who casually discussed the proposal dismissed any change in date rape policy without a thought, Prabhu said. "They didn't think that the issue should be dealt with in a more comprehensive way," she says. Some of the women present for the discussion started to cry, she says, "because we couldn't get men at the council to understand...
...thought Maya Prabhu, "they just don't get it." It was one of the first glimpses of a council that, in her words, is sometimes overtly, brazenly sexist, a genuine boys' network, a council where, Prabhu says, she would walk into rooms and find men sitting with their feet up on tables, smoking cigars...
When, in the midst of the great controversy the following year, a picture of Prabhu appeared in The Crimson with her legs prominently crossed to one side, she found a pair of black lace stockings in her council office maiblbox. Attached was a note: "Don't worry Maya, Cheer up, Things will be fine, You'll look good in these...
Things weren't quite so overt at that first executive board meeting, but Prabhu says people tossed the words "darlin'" and "honey" around. Prabhu says she now heard these terms as slurs. People also accused her of being a radical feminist. "Somehow," she says, "those became the ugliest words that you could toss at any woman...