Word: rapes
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...purposes of treatment of the rape trauma syndrome experienced by sexual assault victims, rape is defined as violence against a person in which sex is used as the weapon. Control of the most private part of one's self is wrested violently in rape. A strict legal definition of rape construes it as nonconsensual penetration of any body orifice by any instrument...
...criticizing the Pi Eta Club Newsletter which began "Before we get in any discussion about the amazing rounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday night by your huge and erect penis..." This is not simply sexist. This is "rapist," or "pro-rape" (I note that Ms. Idelson did make a passing reference to rape imagery). The link between violence and male sexuality, which is precisely the operative factor in rape, is sickeningly, terrifyingly obvious here. "A bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter" is typical of an attitude that not simply...
...while we are facing up to facts--when will The Crimson itself stop supporting the dehumanization and sexual abuse of women by carrying ads for pornographic magazines (a tasteful seven pages distant from Ms. Idelson's article)? Like rape, pornography is based on the premise that male control of female sexuality is okay--in fact "more fun" (because violent) than sexual activity that is mutually agreed to. Pornographic magazines make female sexuality and male violent fantasy about it available at the flip of a page, no consent required...
Last, I might add that the Pi Eta letter is a horrifying reminder to women who are rape survivors (of which there are hundreds at Radcliffe) of what can only be described as the most dehumanizing moment of their lives. Had the newsletter's author known this, he may have thought twice about writing. Then again, maybe not. Caristine Hayes...
Dershowitz also drew fire in several letters to the Globe recently for his suggestion that newspapers print the names of the rape victims when covering rape trials...