Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband" <>]

I agree - sick of the "date rape" term being thrown around inappropriately.  
And yes, why can't they pick up the phone and call Men Can Stop Rape?  Or 
called Abby to interview her about rapists looking for women who are drinking 
- that it's dangerous to assume that the drugs are the "real" danger, etc.?

If they wanted some kind of glitzy story, they could have done it like "To 
Catch a Predator," where they gave the "bystander" guys a fake drug, and see 
if they used it right then in the bar.  Then bust them.  

Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Acton MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org (video clips 
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Booking information: 978-263-3254

Quote of the Month, September 2007:

"I am lighting candles for Patreece Johnson,  Renata Hill, Venice Brown,  and 
Terrain Dandridge whose real crime was being black, lesbian, and daring to 
resist the intimidation and sexual harrassment of a lesbophobic male.  I hope 
and pray they are released very soon. 
..Which of us, as women, has not had the experience of being accosted late at 
night, crudely propositioned, harrassed with sexist hate speech?  How many of 
us have been knifed, beaten, shot, raped and murdered at the hands of a man 
in an incident which began just  like this one?  How is it a crime for us to 
be ready to defend ourselves?"
- "Heart," from the Womanspace blog, 
http://womensspace.wordpress.com/author/womensspace/page/2/ "Support the ;
Lesbian 7"