A national study says more than 90 percent of female restaurant workers had experienced sexual harassment, an indictment of an economic structure that turns customers into shadow employers, leaving servers vulnerable.
Nationally syndicated columnist George Will came to Miami University to talk about the challenges of America while outside more than a 150 protesters claimed he embodied an attitudinal obstacle trivializing campus sexual assaults.
The Maine Democratic Party recently sent campaign mailers that reignited a controversy caused by state Rep. Lawrence Lockman’s (R) statements comparing abortion and rape.
Music is widely acclaimed as a universal language. But it’s clear that in an industry mostly run by men, the message is primarily music that positions men as owners of women, objectifying them to the point of being seen as less than human.
It is time to return to what feminism has to tell us. It is time to make the case for what women have to say about the perils of our modern world. But the case cannot be made along the lines that have become most familiar. We cannot make it only by asserting women’s right to equality or by arguing that women are qualified to enter the courts of judgment and the corridors of power.
