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I spoke at a Take Back The Night rally at UCLA about the high frequency of men who get battered and how when my friend was battered by his wife there were no shelters available. I then told them that when I read their literature that excluded straight male survivors I myself felt battered because I felt like my friend who was denied services and not taken seriously as a male victim. They were actually very receptive and a number of them came up afterward and thanked me. But not all of them feel the same. It's interesting how different campuses have different approaches. Of course, if I had begun smashing one in four or getting too much into statistics they probably would not have been so kind. I wrote about the incident in the cappus newspaper here http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=687
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I would encourage the men who supported this and other such initiatives to withdraw their support immediately and re-consider their positions on feminist policies. The whole "take back the night" concept has become just another misandrist ritual devoted to stigmatizing men as rapists.
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I was actually asked to write one of my TNH articles in support of Take Back the Night, and I decided not to do so, especially after I read a hysterical TNH article that claimed 1/3 of all female UNH students would be victims of rape before they graduated.
In fact, I instead addressed the problem of men being "guilty until proven innocent", and from e-mails I received and my general feeling of the climate on campus, after people read it they felt they had justification not to participate in TBTN when they normally would do so simply out of guilt.
Consequently, there were only about 300 marchers at TBTN this year at UNH. Some years they've had as many as 500, and considering that two alleged rapes at UNH occurred this semester, you'd think this would be a big year for the event.
I wonder why it wasn't?
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Scott
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by Anonymous User on Monday May 07, @02:49PM EST (#5)
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Here's a letter I sent to the Colorado admissions board regarding this subject:
As a man, I will never ever attend your university. Your total lack of
equality for men is appalling, especially regarding your pandering to bigot
women at a "Take Back the Night" rally recently. Since when is a man not
allowed in public just because a woman is a bigot toward men? The story
about your campus bigotry toward men has been submitted to various men's
sites on the Web. I hope you see a significant drop in male enrollment
because of it.
Here's Colorado's response:
Thank you for voicing your concerns regarding the Take Back the Night Rally.
It is unfortunate that your impressions of our institution are so negatively
colored by this single incident. Your email reached the Office of Admissions
and will be forwarded to the organizers of the event, the Campus Women's
Alliance, and their chairwoman, Sara Hailey. She is eager to open up the
dialogue surrounding concerns such as yours, as evidenced in the following
quote from the article you referenced, "If someone has a problem, I say
let's open the dialogue," Hailey said. "Let's talk it out and reach a
compromise. This is just what we've been able to do in the past." It is my
hope that you will be able to address your concerns with her so that such
situations do not arise in the future.
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