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...Someone's rape may be another person's bad night," writes Katie Roiphe in her controversial book The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus. A year later, the debate her words sparked still reverberates in the media and on university campuses...
...woman in this community, and as the assistant dean of Harvard College for coeducation, I applaud you for pointing out that Roiphe makes a convenient straw man of a very extreme view of acquaintance rape. When she then uses her straw man as a proxy for real campus efforts to educate, counsel and respond to the--yes, widespread--incidence of rape on campus, she does a great disservice both to the community and to those who have been raped...
...Roiphe really believes that a woman who complains about an acquaintance rape encourages society to view all women as unable to make decisions about their sex lives, does she also think that a man who complains about being mugged and robbed encourages society to view all men as incapable of managing their finances...
...Rape is no more about women controlling their sexuality than muggings are about investment strategy. In acknowledging acquaintance rape, we do not "infantilize" women-we recognize them as equals who have an equal right to freedom from being attacked and hurt. To use a term from "her" feminism, this empowers women, and Roiphe's effort to discourage this is what keeps women in victim status...
...Roiphe's thought is a valuable contribution to the debate over date rape and feminism. Certainly her arguments have problems, and even dangers. Her analysis of date rape is circumscribed by her limited research. But her strong dissenting voice raises important points which deserve consideration; that feminism is continuing to debate these arguments signifies that it remains a dynamic and influential movement...