Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magic Nose Goblin) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> > > Having never encountered the belief that "all men are rapists and 
>  
> > You obviously missed the cases several years ago where feminist
> > students randomly selected male students' yearbook photos and 
> > then plastered their faces all over campus under the title: "These 
> > men are potential rapists"
> 
> I've heard about that; I'd like to read more about it (cite please). If it's 
> true, and not just another myth about mad PC feminists, then what a 
> clumsy, libellous screw-up. But if they believed that all men are 
> rapists, why didn't the posters say "These men are rapists"?

It happened at the University of Maryland Kate. You went to the
University of Maryland, did you not? This would explain your
education.
Where you went to school there is no misandry so blatant that it
can even be identified as such.

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College art posters list male students as potential rapists.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP)-- Women taking a class in feminist art at the
University of Maryland publically labeled male students whose names
they picked from a campus phone book as "potential rapists."

"How do they even know me?" said Joseph Kahn, a fresman biology
major whose name was among others that appeared on hundreds of
posters put up around campus last week as part of an anti-rape
project.  "I'm pretty outraged."

The posters bore the headline "Notice: These Men Are Potential
Rapists."  Underneath were alphabetic listings of thousands of men.

The women who put up the posters said every identifiable male name
in the student directory was put on the list to draw attention to
several sexual assaults on campus this semester and a lingering
concern over date rape.  The school's enrollment is about 32,000 
students.

Women involved in the project asked to remain anonymous, fearing
harassment.

[ they should have been expelled for harrasing the entire male
  student body, but at Kate's university such slander can be done
  in safety ]

Matthew Nowlin thought the list represented actual rape suspects when
he saw it.  "I thought, 'Great, these guys are getting what they
deserved'"

But the 20-year-old aerospace engineering major failed to notice his
name until a fellow student pointed it out.  "When I saw my name, I
thought 'I've never done anything in my life to be put on a list like
this'" he said.

Campus officials said they were contemplating whether to take any
action.

"We are committed to freedom of expression and to the university as an
open forum for ideas," said Kathryn Costello, university vice
president
for institutional advancement. "However, we do not consider the
methods
used in this instance as constructive."

Art Professor Josephine Withers, who teaches the class, said the
matter
had been "hopelessly distorted."

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Don't worry, you'll forget about it soon enough.

Rich

> Yours,
> - Kate Orman