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...newsletter, which was undated, has aroused a storm of protest from students across campus after its accidental release to the community last week. It refers to women invited to a club party as a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," among other statements alleged by protestors as sexist and violent...
Moreover, this threat is by no means 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...
...mild in her otherwise laudatory article 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...
...call Freud sexist is nothing new, but this book is striking in its account of Eckstein's bungled treatment at the hands of Freud and Fliess. The illfated operation can be excused as potentially well-meaning, but the two men's attitudes toward her in the aftermath of the surgery are truly appalling. Neither doctor, Masson's research reveals, felt any guilt or compassion towards Emma, who nearly died as a result of the failed operation...
...president of the IFC, Ball said he had worked at "calming the masses, for now." He concluded that "we're not racist, we're not sexist, we don't discriminate, and basically, we got screwed...