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- Four months ago, CBS reporter Lara Logan was separated from her camera crew while covering the revolution in Cairo, Egypt, and brutally raped by a crowd of men.
Two months ago, Logan bravely began speaking out in the media about her assault in the media to help end the stigma surrounding rape.
Two weeks ago, Dan Rottenberg, editor-in-chief of Philadelphia-based online arts magazine Broad Street Review, posted a letter blaming Logan in part for the sexual violence committed against her -- equating her gang rape with "getting laid."
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Rottenberg's editor's letter, published on June 6th, is titled 'Male Sexual Abuse and Female Naivete,' six words that from the get-go suggest if women were to act more responsibly, men wouldn't commit "sex abuse," i.e rape. The letter is accompanied by a photo of Logan (above) on the red carpet, wearing a v-line neck dress and smiling for the cameras. The caption under the photo reads, "What message was the TV journalist Lara Logan sending here?"
Rottenberg goes on, "Earth to liberated women: when you display legs, thighs, or cleavage, some liberated men will see it as a sign you feel good about yourself and your sexuality. But most men will see it as a sign you want to get laid. Forewarned is forearmed."
... there are so many words that I want to say about this, but I am way too angry to try to make them stick and I've to go to work anyway. So just a bit of capslock.
MEN OF THE WORLD WHO BELIEVE WHAT THIS ASSHOLE DOES. There are a lot of reasons why women decide to wear clothes that show cleavage or leg. The weather is too hot. They like the clothes. Like me recently, they're wearing skirts because with the rain and the puddles that form, the trousers would wet mud all over. Hell, maybe, even, they DO want to look sexy and feel beautiful and wanted.
THIS? IS IN NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM A 'RAPE ME', OR IMPLICIT CONSENT TO HAVE INTERCOURSE. RAPE MEANS THAT I DID NOT AGREE. THAT SOMEONE ELSE TOOK MY RIGHT TO SAY YES AND MY RIGHT TO SAY NO AND DIDN'T CARE ABOUT WHAT I WANTED. RAPE MEANS THAT SOMEONE DECIDED THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT I WAS WEARING -or wasn't wearing, because, guess what, stupid rape apologist, women get raped EVEN when wearing pants and turtle neck - THEY 'KNEW' WHAT I WANTED.
I'm SO SORRY you seem to believe that apparently the sight of cleavage will take men's ability to REALIZE that a woman has to say YES. Someone wearing a dress that shows cleavage? Doesn't translate as a yes.
ASSHOLE.
SIGN THE PETITION FOR THIS RAPE-APOLOGIST ASSHOLE TO GET FIRED.