Word: victimize
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...students from interacting with students from other colleges worked wonders. Aside from the odd Stanford sighting, Harvard kids basically looked at each other and thought, “Even though I feel sorry for you because your ‘tan’ makes you look like a burn victim, I still don’t want to juice you. Would it be terribly rude if I stopped talking to you and went to hang out with my friends Jose Cuervo and San Miguel?” “But Chris and Chris, didn?...
...perspective on the universal relevance of sexual violence prevention. UC Student Activities Committee Vice-Chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 said that he became active in TBTN after the rape of a female friend. Joshua D. Smith ’08 said that many males are also victims of rape but shame often prevents them from reporting it. The panel also confronted the taboos that discourage men from taking a more active stance in preventing sexual violence. “The basic assumption is that the reason you’re there is because you?...
...political territory. She upholds the importance of the traditional Western Canon—and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
...MURDERED. ANDREW KISSEL, 46, millionaire real estate developer and brother of "milkshake murder" victim Robert Kissel; by unknown assailants; in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2005, a Hong Kong court convicted Nancy Kissel, Robert's wife, of bludgeoning the investment banker to death after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives. Andrew Kissel, who faced federal and state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand...
...allegedly raped by the members of a college’s athletic team).While critics of the media coverage focus their complaints on the intense scrutiny directed toward the athletic program and the players, they fail to see the many instances when the survivor is most harshly investigated. Victim-blaming is frighteningly common—the young woman at Duke has now been asked why she went back in the house, why she would work as a dancer, why she would have been at an all-male party in the first place. When someone is robbed or is the victim...