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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 12:48 PM
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Student paper's piece on "benefits" of rape causes uproar
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linked from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45 to http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nebccsu0209.artfeb09,0,4411698.story?coll=hc-headlines-local


Words Reopen Scars At CCSU
February 9, 2007
By MATT BURGARD, Courant Staff Writer

NEW BRITAIN -- Sarah said she couldn't keep her knees from buckling and the tears from welling in her eyes when she picked up a copy of the student newspaper at Central Connecticut State University this week.
Sarah, a freshman at the university who asked that her last name not be used, said she was raped when she was 15. She said all the hard emotions of her attack came flooding back to her - the shame, the rage, the despair - as she read an article in the campus newspaper, The Recorder, headlined "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It."
"I couldn't believe the things I was reading," she said Thursday, a day after the article appeared. "I couldn't believe anyone in this day and age would write something like that, and that other people would let it be published."
The article, written by opinion editor John Petroski, details several "benefits" that rape has made to civilization over the years. The article describes rape as a "magical experience" that has been a blessing to "ugly women."
"If it weren't for rape, how would they ever know the joy of intercourse with a man who isn't drunk?" the article asks.

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