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Since that time, I have been accused of being everything from immature to pro-rape to unprintable other objections. Not expecting to convince the extremists, I would the like to set the record straight for those who actually appreciate rational argument...
...intention was not to belittle rape victims or make light of the crime of violence against women, as many have charged. The rally, by attaching itself to a woefully misguided political agenda, makes a mockery of rape without any help from me. I was ridiculing the rally itself, which purporting to advance the cause of women's safety, in fact does no such thing...
Still Kelly feels there is no justification for the ideological standpoint espoused by some who attend. And yet, one can hardly fault someone for resenting a male-dominated society when it seems that men convicted of rape rarely come to justice while a woman who is violated must feel shame and fear the rest of her life...
...when they were sexually abused; the suffering remained private because of the shame, and because no one believed what they had to say. For this issue, there can be no more appropriate venue: the message is that a woman should be able to speak about being raped without shame, and with confidence that her audience won't assume that she is merely "emotionally unstable." It there are gray areas in the issue of rape, we certainly won't learn anything new unless women began to present their stories out loud, so that society can begin to hear the other perspective...
...reports that rape has no higher a rate of false reporting than any other crime in the U.S., though out of every 1,000 rapists, only about three ever serve prison terms. Silence is one strategy we cannot afford. Rebecca del Carmen '95, Betsy Bradley '95 Annie Decker '95 Jenna McNeill '95 Jessie Cohen...