Word: sexualism
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...campus in which many students complain of a woeful dearth of sexual activity, there is an increasingly vocal population of students choosing to opt out of what they call Harvard’s hook-up culture. Over 100 of these abstinent students make up the student group, True Love Revolution (TRL), which has garnered campus and national media attention, not all of it positive, for its mission of abstinence...
...column “Rushing to Rape” (Apr.18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 falsely attributes mistakes made in the Duke “rape” case to the larger movement to raise awareness about sexual violence and its victims. Aside from generalizations and mischaracterizations she makes about Take Back the Night, Caldwell casts aside years of rigorous empirical findings and asserts that a woman can best protect herself against violence by taking responsibility for her own social and sexual behavior. Of course, actual research concluding that education on the prevalence, consequences, and forms of sexual...
...Caldwell’s suspicious analogies to the false accusations at Duke and will be confronted with her doubts given her belief that not “all of these [incidents] actually constituted rape.” We suggest that Caldwell’s “victims of sexual violence politics” organize their own week and have their own candlelight vigil to raise awareness about the prevalence of false accusations. Otherwise, Caldwell, you can organize...
Take Back the Night (TBTN) does not exist to spout statistics or place blame, as Caldwell claims, but to support all victims of sexual violence. We do not argue that the issues of sexual assault are clean cut, but we know that blaming victims only adds to the stigma of rape. Most rapists are never punished because the victims feel shame and guilt in reporting them. Awareness of the social and personal impacts of sexual violence and unwavering support for the victims are necessary for effective prevention...
While we regret the prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke Lacrosse case, we regret even more that over 50 women experience sexual assault at Harvard each year. We choose instead to lend our sympathy and support to the hundreds of thousands of rape and sexual assault victims nationwide. We hope that in this week students from across the political and social spectrum can join us in speaking out against sexual violence and standing together in support of rape victims...