Monday, October 25, 2010

What is pleasing and also not pleasing

It is not pleasing that yucky things happen.
But it is very pleasing that some women do something to speak up about it.
Op Ed: Yale Falling Short After Fraternity Incident.
I was unfortunately unsurprised by this:
"We cannot afford to allow such incidents to be glossed over with a “mea culpa” and a slap on the wrist, which is, unfortunately, all too common. That Dean Mary Miller chose to reference “free speech” in her letter to the Yale student body, shows an appalling lack of judgment when Department of Justice statistics show that one in four women will either be raped or experience attempted rape during their four years at college...Two former presidents (HW and W Bush) were members of the very fraternity that perpetrated this outrage. When you consider that 4 out of 10 women being treated at veterans hospitals have reported being raped by fellow soldiers while they were in the military (the actual number is believed higher), and our Presidents as their commanders in chief, have allowed these rapes to be brushed under the carpet, even permitting the perpetrators full military burials, it’s clear that we simply cannot afford to have future leaders being educated in such a misogynistic atmosphere."
But again, happy to see it put in print.
That particular fraternity has conducted itself poorly on other campuses.
That it should draw attention to itself on that particular campus is very interesting.

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