Ten Years Ago and More… Portrayal Guest Contributor, Professor Kathy Brady Emily Daly
Winner of Four Collegiate Excellence in Journalism Awards fromo Our college. Our news. Our voice. Naugatuck Valley Community College March 1, 2016 Waterbury, Connecticut Vol. 60, Iss. 2 A Troublesome Ten Years Ago and More… Portrayal Guest Contributor, Professor Kathy Brady Emily Daly More than ten years ago, when I was an English survivors tell their stories. The Director of the Marches and Speak Outs temporarily high- Sometimes she’s the ditzy blonde who makes faculty member at Western Connecticut State Women’s Resource Center stood at the micro- light what we would prefer to forget. When everyone laugh. Or the nerdy girl buried in University, I was part of something that forever phone, reciting mind-numbing statistics of that the crowds and marches disband, so too, does books who goes unnoticed until she removes changed me. For many years, an accepted time, which are still virtually unchanged: memory. College campuses, in particular, are her glasses. And don’t forget the self-assured autumn ritual involved men on the football vulnerable to episodic amnesia because stu- woman who knows what she wants, and n 1 in 4 women in America will be a team organizing “panty raids,” in which dent populations are ever changing. If real is therefore called a “bitch.” Thanks to the rape victim groups of players literally invaded women’s social change is to occur, there must be a pub- media, these one-note portrayals overlook n 1 in 3 college aged women will be dorm rooms to steal their undergarments. lic repository for times, places and events, an women as multi-faceted individuals who sexually assaulted or raped Over the many years that the tradition existed, institutional, academic and social memory that can be more than one thing—given the n Only 10% of rapes are ever reported women were routinely terrified and assaulted; holds what we long to, as Toni Morrison writes opportunity.
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