Hi, I recently got an email forward in my department regarding two events:
1) A "panel discussion about campus safety" and
2) a "systematic dialogue" between 20 male students (or 20 male faculty in a different case) and the host (and perhaps others).
The relevant part for point 2 is the following excerpt from the email:
"We would very much appreciate your support in our effort to initiate
systematic dialogue with men on the positive roles they can and need to
play to foster campus safety.
Will be great if you could encourage participation of your students,
faculty, staff in one of the following workshops and/ or at the panel
discussion."
- - -
Now, I know this is a controversial topic and personally I found this entire thing to be very offensive and condescending. I plan to attend the small discussion next week and perhaps go to the bigger panel discussion.
My goal is to check for 1) consistency and 2) make my disagreement heard. I have some very simply analogous situations (I think) to compare to, but I'm open to hearing more ideas.
To me, this is no different than telling any of the following groups of people to "own" the problem of ____
1) blacks and murder
2) women and infanticide
3) women and false rape allegations
I personally disagree with ALL of these, but I don't see how it is a faulty comparison.
I also don't know the stats for "violence and harassment", but unless it's something like 50:1 men:women doing the harassing, I can't see how such a targeted blame is needed (and even then I reject telling an entire group to own up to a minority problem).
If you have any feedback I'd like to hear it. Stats help but stats don't often provide much fruition in verbal discussions (though I anticipate hearing a lot from my opponents).
note: I tried to attach a pdf but it was kinda large so perhaps that's why it failed. *shrug*
1) A "panel discussion about campus safety" and
2) a "systematic dialogue" between 20 male students (or 20 male faculty in a different case) and the host (and perhaps others).
The relevant part for point 2 is the following excerpt from the email:
"We would very much appreciate your support in our effort to initiate
systematic dialogue with men on the positive roles they can and need to
play to foster campus safety.
Will be great if you could encourage participation of your students,
faculty, staff in one of the following workshops and/ or at the panel
discussion."
- - -
Now, I know this is a controversial topic and personally I found this entire thing to be very offensive and condescending. I plan to attend the small discussion next week and perhaps go to the bigger panel discussion.
My goal is to check for 1) consistency and 2) make my disagreement heard. I have some very simply analogous situations (I think) to compare to, but I'm open to hearing more ideas.
To me, this is no different than telling any of the following groups of people to "own" the problem of ____
1) blacks and murder
2) women and infanticide
3) women and false rape allegations
I personally disagree with ALL of these, but I don't see how it is a faulty comparison.
I also don't know the stats for "violence and harassment", but unless it's something like 50:1 men:women doing the harassing, I can't see how such a targeted blame is needed (and even then I reject telling an entire group to own up to a minority problem).
If you have any feedback I'd like to hear it. Stats help but stats don't often provide much fruition in verbal discussions (though I anticipate hearing a lot from my opponents).
note: I tried to attach a pdf but it was kinda large so perhaps that's why it failed. *shrug*
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