Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than to do so. It's a centuries-old look--women, girls really, who should have said "no" but couldn't, who wanted love so much that they settled for sex. And it's a look that ought to leave the audience pondering the fine line between seduction and rape. Desire and fear become one and the same...
...said the amnesty, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of South Africa, will not apply to people imprisoned for offenses related to racial unrest, robbery, rape or assault...
Last week, several men hosted a social event open to all house members. The walls of their common room sported numerous Response posters which they had torn down from their rightful locations and upon which they had written comments. Appended to one rape victim's expression of anguish was the comment which says it all: "She asked for it." You don't have to be a Response rape counselor or a "radical communist lesbian" to be shocked by the realization that Harvard students think these issues are funny. Yet, these gentlemen were taken aback when house members complained...
These are merely two examples of a widespread lack of sensitivity toward problems faced by women. A surprisingly and disturbingly large number of people think that issues like rape and sexual harassment are not applicable to Harvard life, and that threats to women exist only in the minds of a hysterical and paranoid "they...
...fact that people still take lightly the issues of sexual harassment and rape proves that concern and protest is fully justified and necessary. And the fact that my housemates did not event think twice about displaying their sexism proves that even Harvard society is a long way from recognizing the relevancy and urgency of feminist concerns. Not long ago the popular "Amos & Andy" radio and TV shows provided millions of Americans with "humor" derived from the humiliationm of Blacks. Such "humor" was considered perfectly acceptable in mainstream American society until very recently, and it would still be acceptable today...