Let's get this straight: any woman who head to an EI party as an anonymous
onlooker, drinks five cups of the jungle juice, and walks back to a boy's room
with him is indicating that she wants sex, OK? To cry "date rape" after you
sober up the next morning and regret the incident is the equivalent of pulling a
gun to someone's head and then later claiming that you didn't ever actually
intend to pull the trigger.
Now, this kid is clearly a moron. The nonsense that he espouses in most of his columns proves that. He likes to cause as much controversy as possible, because he wants attention.
And it works, because he gets the attention that he craves. This morning, somebody removed all of the newspapers from one of their stands and hung a sign that read, "No Room for Rape Apologists." See a picture here.
So there you have it. One idiot writes an offensive column, another retaliates in an unecessary and immature fashion. It is safe to say that civility has not yet returned to our campus' politics.
Please tell us how the reaction to this article is "unnecessary" and "immature".
ReplyDeleteWould you not hope the same for any published words that promote ideas that rape is not serious, and that guys need not worry about consent if the chick is drunk?
Did you know that this same cultural attitude has created a world where 1 in 4 college-aged women experience attempted or completed rape? Is that a world in which you want our future daughters growing up?
Are you really going to say that this article isn't disgraceful?
These activists did the right thing by calling attention to a blatant example of ignorance and misogyny.
The article is ridiculous. Alex Knepper is a moron. I was pretty clear about that.
ReplyDeleteBut throwing the newspapers on the floor is immature. The only reason that he wrote the column is because he wanted attention. Thanks to these activists, he is going to get a lot more of it than he deserves. I feel that letting his own stupidity speak for itself would have been more effective. Responding through the same medium, as Sarah Brown will do in Thursday's Eagle, would also be appropriate. But this is just silly.
so, doing nothing would have been the optimal reaction? I respectfully disagree.
ReplyDeleteThere are a thousand ways to make it known that you think his article sucks.
They went right to the source. Back to The Eagle with the papers to make a clear, and highly visible, statement that it was unacceptable and ignorant to write and print this sludge.
Sure he's getting attention - that's the point. They didn't destroy anything just undid the circulation - which they rectified easily.
Is that the general feeling on campus? That it was a childish response?
Just because somebody writes something that you disagree with does not give you the right to act that way. People, especially newspaper columnists, are entitled to their opinion. Even if it is offensive.
ReplyDeleteBut that's just my opinion. As for the general feeling on campus, there's only one way to find out: a poll! (which I will put up now)