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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. Her words have been picked up by both the media and university students, opening a whole new debate on rape and violence against women...
Take Back the Night was not created to promote victimization. The controversy over issues such as date-rape has obscured the fact that every year Take Back the Night deals with a wide range of topics, ranging from campus safety to domestic violence. The key to a successful Take Back the Night is that it not only address issues of concern both on Harvard-Radcliffe's campus and beyond, but that it also offer strategies for both women and men to work toward solutions to these issues. Despite claims to the contrary, violence against women is still epidemic. Take Back...
Topics such as campus safety, abusive relationships, date rape--all these need to be addressed in this year's Take Back the Night, but the emphasis needs to be on positive change rather than on negative reinforcement. For example, the recently-created Safety Walk, the walking escort service on campus, offers a way to walk deserted streets late at night with minimal fear. In addition, Safety Walk, originally sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students, is geared to both women and men, emphasizing that safety concerns are not gender-specific...
Changing sexual politics had indeed been one of the fig leaves used to discuss the case in polite company. How far can an abused wife go to protect herself? But John had been acquitted last November of marital rape. And last week the jury bought the tales of abuse and cruelty Lorena's defense team presented. A finding of temporary insanity is often a jury's way to let off a guilty defendant who has won its sympathy...
...Katie Roiphe's date rape polemic, The Morning After, she pulls that typical trick of grouping all of her opponents together. She assumes that every feminist on every campus in the world thinks like Catharine MacKinnon, who believes that all social contact between men and women is tantamount to rape. Roiphe's arguments sound reasonable, but only if you really are speaking against a world of Catharine MacKinnons...