Notes for Bob Dole
This week has certainly been illuminating.
It's domestic violence awareness month, and I've heard very little about it on the media.
A short mention of it today on CNN is actually the first I've heard about it all month from anywhere other than Willow and KU, but KU is running a particular series this week to focus on issues of domestic violence, and I've attended them.
Sunday was Take Back the Night. Ill attended, because the original march got rained out. People actually came to that one (in September) but in the end they did not march due to weather, and at this one, due to low attendance, we held vigil on the corner with banners instead of marching.
Monday was a resource panel in the Hawk's Nest at the Union, and it (unfortunately) was also sparse. However, being 8 people, we were able to have a round table discussion about issues and cover the details that everyone wanted to talk about, and all in all, it was good.
Tuesday was the big event (or at least the thing that a bunch of people knew about and came to.) Anne Munch at the Dole Center. I had never been in the Dole Center before, and Emily had a lesson, so she dropped me off with my bike, early. I learned that there isn't really any place to sit in the Dole Center. It's just a museum glorifying Bob Dole. Mostly his war escapades. There are life-size cardboard cutouts and a place where you can write him notes and they'll send them to him. There is nothing, however, about how he became the Viagra spokesman in his later years. I guess nobody feels that's as great a service to the country.
Anne Munch's presentation was good, though, if disheartening in a lot of ways. Turns out a lot of people don't think "forced sex" is rape, even if it happens to them, though all 50 states have laws against spousal rape now. The laws change for the better, the paradigms still need work.
Yesterday... another event where attendance was light. Domestic Violence and GLBT issues at Hash Theatre. I thought is was going to be a panel discussion, but it was actually a presentation. Mostly "what is it to be Queer"; "What is Domestic Violence" and then, "How is Domestic Violence enacted within queer relationships" with a focus on how the violence might look different from relationships where the partners involved are non-sexual minorities.
And today, a series of Public Service announcments from the 50s on "How to be the Man" followed by discussion - I think about how media perpetuates our pardigms of gender and power. But if not specifically that, something along those lines. I would think that being a more "entertaining" type of event, this one might have a stronger draw, but we'll see. I would have thought the other events would have been highly attended as well. I think people were standing in the back for Anne Munch (the upside of early.)
Though I suppose it's possible people just happened upon the event as they were flocking in to admire Bob Dole.
-Claven
It's domestic violence awareness month, and I've heard very little about it on the media.
A short mention of it today on CNN is actually the first I've heard about it all month from anywhere other than Willow and KU, but KU is running a particular series this week to focus on issues of domestic violence, and I've attended them.
Sunday was Take Back the Night. Ill attended, because the original march got rained out. People actually came to that one (in September) but in the end they did not march due to weather, and at this one, due to low attendance, we held vigil on the corner with banners instead of marching.
Monday was a resource panel in the Hawk's Nest at the Union, and it (unfortunately) was also sparse. However, being 8 people, we were able to have a round table discussion about issues and cover the details that everyone wanted to talk about, and all in all, it was good.
Tuesday was the big event (or at least the thing that a bunch of people knew about and came to.) Anne Munch at the Dole Center. I had never been in the Dole Center before, and Emily had a lesson, so she dropped me off with my bike, early. I learned that there isn't really any place to sit in the Dole Center. It's just a museum glorifying Bob Dole. Mostly his war escapades. There are life-size cardboard cutouts and a place where you can write him notes and they'll send them to him. There is nothing, however, about how he became the Viagra spokesman in his later years. I guess nobody feels that's as great a service to the country.
Anne Munch's presentation was good, though, if disheartening in a lot of ways. Turns out a lot of people don't think "forced sex" is rape, even if it happens to them, though all 50 states have laws against spousal rape now. The laws change for the better, the paradigms still need work.
Yesterday... another event where attendance was light. Domestic Violence and GLBT issues at Hash Theatre. I thought is was going to be a panel discussion, but it was actually a presentation. Mostly "what is it to be Queer"; "What is Domestic Violence" and then, "How is Domestic Violence enacted within queer relationships" with a focus on how the violence might look different from relationships where the partners involved are non-sexual minorities.
And today, a series of Public Service announcments from the 50s on "How to be the Man" followed by discussion - I think about how media perpetuates our pardigms of gender and power. But if not specifically that, something along those lines. I would think that being a more "entertaining" type of event, this one might have a stronger draw, but we'll see. I would have thought the other events would have been highly attended as well. I think people were standing in the back for Anne Munch (the upside of early.)
Though I suppose it's possible people just happened upon the event as they were flocking in to admire Bob Dole.
-Claven