Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms--women's bodies, as we all know, are repeatedly dismembered and objectified by the media. Lest we be alarmed by this or any other matter, the song goes on to reassure us, "Nothing seems to hurt me when I'm close to you." We imagine that the rape victims supported at the march might have a different view of "closeness" with men! Furthermore, the message "Give me so much love that I forget myself" is hardly a message which empowers women. Since violence against women is precisely an act of "forgetting," or negating, the existence of another to advocate...
Finally, if "Taking Back the Night" is about "saying no"--to rape, to harassment, to the psychological and physical abuse of women--it is also about saying "YES." At "Take Back the Night" we do more than decry violence against women; we claim our right to be ourselves--on our own initiative, with our own strength. We don't need to go running to someone else's arms and we don't need, as the Pitches' closing lullaby suggests, to go to sleep. We need to wake up--NOW. Carloyn Greaves '86-7 Alison Rader...
...held "services" in his house for retarded women. He had a history of violence, however, and was convicted in 1978 of kidnaping a mentally handicapped woman. In 1985 he married a mail-order bride from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with murder, rape and kidnaping, and prosecutors said they would seek...
...theory of date rape is that men and women tend to misread each other's signals, particularly a soft-spoken no that many males assume means yes or at least maybe. Says one student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.: "There are different kinds of nos. 'Noooo . . .' is one thing. 'NO, get your filthy hands off me!' is another." Some feminists argue that the U.S. has a "rape culture" in which males are encouraged to treat women aggressively and women are trained to submit. Some surveys back up that dark ideological view of male sexual behavior. In Koss's study...
Many campuses and rape crisis centers sponsor speeches and programs aimed at preventing date rape. At Cornell, student actors play the roles of date rapists and victims, then stay in character to restage the scenes along new lines suggested by members of the audience. An increasing number of college campuses now have anti-rape programs. However, as Bernice Sandler of the Association of American Colleges, points out, "many schools are still unsure about whether date rape is rape or not. Schools just don't know what to do about it." But times may be changing. Pi Kappa Phi fraternities around...