Wednesday, August 03, 2005

In this post from Pandagon, commenters note that there is a resonance between the stories of women raped and blamed for it in such countries as Pakistan and Venezula and college sexual violence. When I read this, I remembered a story from Getting a Life: The Everyday Uses of Autobiography, at a certain college, women got fed up with the kangaroo courts, and started to write the names of rapists on the bathroom wall, even when their writings were erased, they kept naming them. It must have been hard to do that, when others encouraged them to shut up. It took bravery and courage. That's what it means to be brave- to fight against injustice. It doesn't mean going to war and killing other people who did nothing to you.

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