Rape victims shouldn't have to suffer in silence and keep their rapists' secrets

[sheshe2]

More power to the people behind Columbia's 'rape list'. Since when is it worse to bring attention to a rapist than to be one?



Less than a month after students at New York's Columbia University filed a complaint with the federal government alleging the school mishandled sexual assault cases, anonymous anti-rape activists are posting the names of alleged campus rapists on bathroom walls and flyers. I say more power to them – rapists deserve to be outed, and women deserve to be safe.

The "rape list" first appeared in a woman's bathroom. After the school washed it off the wall, the activists posted the list again in different bathrooms around campus. After the school removed the lists again, printed flyers started popping up. One flyer listed the names of men who it said had been found "responsible" by the university for sexual assaults, including one who was termed as a serial offender. The flyer also reads: "To the Columbia Community: Stay safe, protect and support each other, and always always make sure to have, sober, enthusiastic, continuous consent."

One of the men on the list has since been asked to leave his position as a writer on a campus website (but, yes, he's still allowed on campus).

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Whether by a judge's rule or society's stigma, rape victims are often silenced and very rarely get justice. Sometimes their voices – and actions like these – are all that they have. So when victims of sexual violence (male or female) speak out about their experiences or name their attackers, we need to listen – not wash the truth off of a bathroom wall.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/15/columbia-rape-list-victims-secrets













You would not believe the despicable graphics that I found while looking for these images. Rape seems to be quite the joke. They laugh.

They don't condemn it, they condone it. An act so violent and beneath contempt, yet they laugh. I would call them animals, yet that would be a slight to an animal. I do not know of any animal that has ever raped another. Only the human animal does that.

[niyad]

1. k and r, and waiting for the flack we know is on its way.

[Lunacee_2013]

2. K&R.

My female friends and I have been warning each other about "those kind of guys" since middle school. When I was a teenager there was a new boy who moved in a few blocks away who had a history of hitting his girlfriends. Not one single girl at my high school dated him because we got the word out. He ended up with a girl from out of town who left him after a few months because (surprise, surprise) he gave her a black eye. So I also think its a good idea for women to watch out for each other like this.

[sheshe2]

4. True Lunacee

We need to have each others backs. We are our own best friends and we watch out for each otehr.

[Lunacee_2013]

7. Exactly.

No matter how many times they take these lists down, no matter how much the typical MRAs complain that innocent men might be targeted, women will continue to warn each other about who's dangerous and abusive. I'm very thankful that I have a few good friends who've got my back and they have kept me out of iffy relationships.

[sheshe2]

3. Kick for Women!

[duhneece]

5. Great graphics you found.

Sorry you had to endure the crap you described. I copied some of your graphics for the next Take Back the Night march we have in our community. Thank you.

[sheshe2]

6. This, duhneece?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Back_the_Night

Would you keep me informed please?!

Thank you,

sheshe

[duhneece]

9. Oh, sheshe2, you are amazing!!

Yes! That's us. I'm short, and haven't found me yet in this pic, but I've attended all (5 or 6) here. Every year we have more signs and I loved your post for the ideas it gave me. We had our second 'We Trust Women Commemoration & Celebration of Roe v Wade in January, produced The Vagina Monologues in Feb and had our TBTN march in April. I can't believe you found our 'little' march. Damn, you're good. Thank you.

[sheshe2]

10. LOL!

Thanks, duhneece. Arizona rocks!

I love what you are doing. Let me know when you find yourself in the pic.

[duhneece]

13. Arizona? You do know that Alamogordo is in New Mexico, right?

I'm more in the back or behind someone taller than me. I just can't find me. Neat to see so many folks I know and getting to pass it on to them. Again, thanks.

[sheshe2]

14. ooops~ sorry.

[Supersedeas]

11. yep, here's another k&r

[sheshe2]

8. Kick!

[ismnotwasm]

12. K&R