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Yesterday evening, the annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) rally which culminates the week's events provided an opportunity for survivors of violent sexual attacks to speak out and reclaim their sense of safety and comfort from the personified, albeit symbolic, "owner" of the night. This amorphous Mr. Danger, he who lurks in the shadows between blue light phones, also keeps my grandmother up at nights. He, (sorry guys, but this is definitely not a gender-neutral character) could be disguised as the charming preppy boy at the party who innocently offers you a sweet-tasting drink. While some critics...
...addition to finding our voices, TBTN has aggressively encouraged women to reclaim our bodies. Tuesday's "eat-in" provided an opportunity for women and men to indulge guiltlessly in pizza, ice cream and soda (diet not allowed). This event was a direct attack on '90s pop culture figures such as Ally McBeal--the feminist icon of our times, according to People and Time magazines--and Kate Moss. These women's ridiculously unattainable bodies often motivate an extra 10 minutes on the treadmill and create the will power to continuously decline dessert...
Worse than being biased, your article is racist when it implies that Wen Ho Lee would spy for China because he is Chinese. Why would Lee, a Taiwanese by birth, help China reclaim Taiwan? Obviously, you have not learned from your mistake in World War II when you mistrusted a great many American citizens because they were Japanese or of Japanese descent. VINCENT LIM Singapore...
...People take a lot of things that the feminist movements has done for granted," Sur said. "It's important to know that history and to reclaim that history...
...People take a lot of things that the feminist movements has done for granted," Sur said. "It's important to know that history [of International Women's Day] and to reclaim that history...