Sara Shoener writes for the New York Times: “After spending two years studying services for domestic violence survivors, I was surprised to realize that one of the most common barriers to women’s safety was something I had never considered before: the high value our culture places on two-parent families.”
Will’s op-ed on the growing movement to reform campus policies on sexual assault is ignorant and misguided. Instead of viewing the rise in sexual assault education on campuses as positive reform, Will suggests that it is merely a ploy to “make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges.”
George Will’s outrageous claim that survivors want to attain “coveted status” and “privileges” perpetuates a culture of victim blaming and denies the severity of the epidemic of violence against women.
The Washington Post needs to dump George Will now!
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is urging The Washington Post to drop George Will’s column after he made light of the issue of campus sexual assault and suggested that some colleges are making “victimhood a coveted status.”
The National Organization for Women called for Will to “take a break” from his column, maybe go sit in a corner, think about what he’s done.
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