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

["Heather Wilson Henderson" <>]

"Some choice victim-blaming masquerading as advice is making the rounds this
week via "Ask Amy," a syndicated column by the Chicago Tribune's Ann Landers
successor, Amy Dickinson.  The column was printed nationally under the title
"Sobering Advice to Rape Victim," which is offensive in and of itself."

 

Millions of people read this column.  The columnist hopes that her
victim-blaming "advice" "will be posted on college bulletin boards
everywhere."  

Check it out here
<http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/dont_ask_amy_shes_a_rape_victim_bl
amer> .  Tell this columnist that you don't agree with her advice for
college women.  At the end of the article you can sign an online petition
<http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_amy_dickinson_to_correct_her_rape_v
ictim_blaming_advice_column>  that demands that she correct her comments in
a forthcoming column.

 

Heather Wilson Henderson
Education Specialist
Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
Harvard University
731 Holyoke Center
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-5636