Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take Back the Night. Each year, this national week of activism dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence inevitable evokes the same old cheap shots. Cynics, low grade comedians and devil's advocates are all bound to snidely inquirer: Who owns the night in the first place...
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...
...multi-faceted violence that participants at last night's event sought to resist does not always prevail upon women. The candlelight vigil was intended to liberate the long-silenced victims of sexual abuse and violence. In addition, participants--both men and women--were encouraged to take an aggressive stance against the violence that has pervaded our society. Littleton, Colo. Enough said...
...dollars back. Some of the letters are nasty; they say they don't know what RUS has ever done for them and don't think they should have to pay us anything. They're as nasty as the letters I've read from students angry about the Coalition Against Sexual Violence posters last fall (they displayed statistics found in the Harvard booklet on rape). But without RUS funding, many organizations could die. The organizations and events RUS has sponsored include The Male Athletes Forum, Swanwhite, Crimson Dance Team, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Tampoon, individual student research in Nepal...
...were part of the bargain and we deserve what Radcliffe gave us, and more. Harvard has more resources than Radcliffe does and should therefore be able to fulfill more of our needs as women undergraduates with women's experiences. The unawareness of undergraduates about issues such as sexual assault on this campus can be changed with events like Take Back the Night. The lack of knowledge of most students here on what Radcliffe did for them, and what Harvard could do for them (with some serious pushing by undergraduates), can be changed with a little education, and a little action...