Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pornographic view of women lies not only in the represetnation of women as sub-human "slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," but in its message that women enjoy male sexual violence and aggression; "grateful heffers (sic)" As Chris Hayes pointed out in her insightful letter to The Crimson, the rape mentality created by pornography, and the Pi Eta club, allows men to sexually coerce and rape women with impunity. After all, "she wanted...
...connection of pornography and the rape mentality exhibited in the Pi newsletter with real acts of sexual violence against women is not merely academic. Rape and sexual harassment are not the "extreme outgrowths" of this view of women, they are the natural result. Studies clearly show that pornography increases male subjects' acceptance of rape and sexual violence. Moreover, it clearly communicates that such violence is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." In fact, many of the most heinous sex crimes are performed using pornography as a text-book. Still closer to home, the Harvard study of sexual harassment among peers found that...
...limited to the publication of the Pi Eta Club. The sexist views expressed in the newsletter are an extreme representation of attitudes too often tolerated on campus. Such attitudes are not only offensive, but also dangerous because they create a climate that encourages violence toward women. Sexual harassment and rape are the extreme outgrowths of language that presents women as objects, or employs violent imagery...
...because they had previously jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or failed to show up in court to face earlier charges. Among the newly liberated: a 25-year-old Oakland man with 26 earlier arrests for grand theft and selling narcotics; a 22-year-old woman accused of forcible rape, prostitution and committing lewd acts with children; and a 21-year-old drug dealer with a previous arrest record...
SENTENCED. John Cordeiro, 24; Victor Raposo, 23; and Daniel Silva, 27; Portuguese immigrant laborers who were convicted in a nationally televised trial of gang raping a woman in a neighborhood tavern; each to nine to twelve years in prison; in Fall River, Mass. A fourth defendant, Joseph Vieira, 28, received six to eight years on the same aggravated rape charge...