Letter: Take action against sexist offenders
Re: “Vulgar e-mail targets freshmen” (Sept. 3). I was the senior administrative assistant for the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale for 25 years. Every year that I worked for Yale, there were similar incidents of women being dissed, insulted, harassed and disrespected in public ways. (Worse assaults went on in private.) Every year there would be an outcry for a bit, then the situation and rage would die down, only to have it occur again at a later date.
What this means to me is that sexism and discrimination against women is alive and well, and needs constantly to be...
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By y09
11:21p.m. on September 9, 2009
To be in control. This isn't *that* complicated, come on.
People are aiming to "frighten" women why exactly...?