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...panel of male undergraduate leaders spoke yesterday about sexual assault, stressing the universality of the issue as part of Harvard’s annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) week. “Rape is a problem that has no gender ownership,” said Theodore B. Bressman ’06, a peer counselor for the Office of Sexual Assault and Prevention Response. The purpose of the event was to offer a “tangible presentation of men combating sexual and domestic violence,” TBTN Co-chair Vanessa V. Pratt ’08 said...
Offending feminists and conservatives alike, Paglia has defined her own political territory. She upholds the importance of the traditional Western Canon—and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
...years apart, Gentry has created a hybrid that meshes surprisingly well. The male and female characters don’t interact directly, but their roles enhance each other, especially in segments that are parallel between the two—for example, a woman’s monologue on rape is mirrored by a scene among the men about being wrongly accused of rape.This adaptation is so seamless that it became difficult to conceive of the two plays as separate entities. The actors were given the difficult task of taking on all this humor, grief, and occasional didacticism, largely in monologue...
...weeks ago, three white lacrosse players at Duke were accused of raping a local African-American college student who was hired as a dancer for their off-campus party. Since the story was picked up by the national media, some have criticized media coverage as sensationalistic, urging reporters to limit their coverage of the alleged rape to the facts.The media and the district attorney’s office, however, are not sensationalizing the allegations; rather, they are reporting the facts of the case. And it is an undisputed fact that a rape is alleged to have occurred, and most...
...East Timor did in 1999, agreed in 2001 to a Special Autonomy Law. But independence supporters say little has changed since then. Access to the province is notoriously difficult but in recent years human-rights groups have documented a range of abuses by Indonesian security forces, such as rape, torture, abductions and thousands of deaths. When he visited last year, Sydney University researcher John Wing says the mood among locals was defiant but frustrated: "They feel they have been ignored. They're praying and hoping the international community will pay more attention to them...