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Sexual assault at UCONN
By Ned | May 7, 2008
Via Ezra Klein, this story was absolutely chilling. The gist of it is that the editor in chief of UCONN’s school paper was sexually assaulted during Spring Weekend and successfully fended off the attacker in front of a crowd of people who - and this is the really disgusting part - instead of helping her decided to further sexually humiliate her for having the temerity to defend herself.
Seriously, what the fuck? It boggles the mind that, in this day and age, a whole crowd of supposedly enlightened, educated university students could cheer this sort of behavior on. What makes this even more disturbing for me personally is that a lot of people that I care about - many of them female - go to that school. I seriously don’t like the thought of them sharing a campus with the kind of people who are capable of this shit. But as one commenter points out, this is a problem that’s not just specific to one school.
Kudos to Melissa Bruen for successfully defending herself from a group of raging assholes, and having the courage to make her story heard.
Topics: Bigotry |
May 9th, 2008 at 4:35 am
As a psych major, this is actually completely unsurprising to me. Still disgusting though.