Speaker Who Disagrees With Rape Culture Protested at Dartmouth
At least it was a silent protest that didn’t interrupt the speaker.
Dave Huber reports at the College Fix.
Dartmouth students stage silent protest during ‘controversial’ sexual assault speech
There’s been yet another college protest focused on an “against-the-sexual assault-narrative” speaker, this time Slate’s Emily Yoffe at Dartmouth.
Apparently, some of Yoffe’s articles — titled “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk,” “The Problem With Campus Sexual Assault Surveys,” and “The College Rape Overcorrection” — miffed around twenty students who showed up with pickets at the writer’s talk.
A few of the placards read “My Voice is NOT the Problem,” “Victim Shaming is Rape Enabling,” and “Rapists Are Not Victims.”
Protest organizer Tori Nevel said, “The way that she wants to fix the problem is by saying, ‘If women stop drinking, then the problem will be over.’ Telling a woman to change her behavior to avoid being raped is putting all the impetus on the victim to protect themselves, and in the same breath it is saying don’t let yourself be raped, but let someone else be raped.”
The Dartmouth reports:
Nevel said she and other students created the signs partially in order to help represent those who were not there, but also to inspire discussion.
“We want to engage in dialogue the whole time, and that is how we are going to do it,” she said.
The students remained silent during the presentation and would raise their signs when Yoffe would make what they perceived to be controversial statements, such as when she said that there was a generational gap that has resulted in the current generation of women being weaker than the women who came before them.
Dartmouth students stage silent protest during ‘controversial’ sexual assault speech (The College Fix)