When I saw this article I thought
it would be a perfect addition to this blog. It talks about how President Obama
and Vice President Biden have announced a task force against rape on college
campuses. This seems like a good sign of legitimate progress in the front of
defeating rape culture. Obama and Biden’s words ring true and no matter what a
person believes politically, the words that were expressed by the president and
vice president should be held in the highest light. The wheels of progress will
be turning with this announcement.
“Our daughters, our sisters, our wives, our mothers,
our grandmothers have every single right to expect to be free from violence and
sexual abuse,”
“No matter what she’s
wearing, no matter whether she’s in a bar, in a dormitory, in the back seat of
a car, on a street, drunk or sober — no man has a right to go beyond the word
‘no.’ And if she can’t consent, it also means no.”
In these quotes Biden expresses what everyone should
be thinking, that rape can happen to anyone you know and sometimes it hits home
and that guys should be aware. Also, some people don’t realize that the person
who gets raped, isn’t the only victim. The family of the victim also suffers
with the emotional toll as well as the backlash from a rape accusation as was
similar to the Maryville case. All in all this task force is a great idea and I
hope it can be expanded to high schools later on. I truly hope this task force
helps inform more people about rape which in turn stops it.
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