Rape victims shouldn't have to suffer in silence and keep their rapists' secrets [View all]

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More power to the people behind Columbia's 'rape list'. Since when is it worse to bring attention to a rapist than to be one?



Less than a month after students at New York's Columbia University filed a complaint with the federal government alleging the school mishandled sexual assault cases, anonymous anti-rape activists are posting the names of alleged campus rapists on bathroom walls and flyers. I say more power to them – rapists deserve to be outed, and women deserve to be safe.

The "rape list" first appeared in a woman's bathroom. After the school washed it off the wall, the activists posted the list again in different bathrooms around campus. After the school removed the lists again, printed flyers started popping up. One flyer listed the names of men who it said had been found "responsible" by the university for sexual assaults, including one who was termed as a serial offender. The flyer also reads: "To the Columbia Community: Stay safe, protect and support each other, and always always make sure to have, sober, enthusiastic, continuous consent."

One of the men on the list has since been asked to leave his position as a writer on a campus website (but, yes, he's still allowed on campus).

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Whether by a judge's rule or society's stigma, rape victims are often silenced and very rarely get justice. Sometimes their voices – and actions like these – are all that they have. So when victims of sexual violence (male or female) speak out about their experiences or name their attackers, we need to listen – not wash the truth off of a bathroom wall.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/15/columbia-rape-list-victims-secrets













You would not believe the despicable graphics that I found while looking for these images. Rape seems to be quite the joke. They laugh.

They don't condemn it, they condone it. An act so violent and beneath contempt, yet they laugh. I would call them animals, yet that would be a slight to an animal. I do not know of any animal that has ever raped another. Only the human animal does that.