OT- Lady Vols banned from discussing sexual assault culture

Submitted by Blazefire on

MOD EDIT - Link to story. See also my reply below in case you miss it here - LINK

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nerv

February 12th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^

Folks who are at work may not want to click that link. For some reason the USA Today Sports twitter has a picture up right under the Vols story of some topless ladies. Personally Im more than ok with it. Your boss may not be.

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mGrowOld

February 12th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^

Don't click on that link!

For the love of God and all things holy do NOT click on that link!

Im begging you - PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK!

 

So naturally I clicked on the link.

Bewbs!!!!!!!

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LSAClassOf2000

February 12th, 2016 at 2:12 PM ^

In case anyone didn't catch the link, here it is again - LINK

Like some, I did not get the image and my test (on my own laptop, mind you) went right to the story, so that's weird indeed. 

Anyway...

Stories like these are moments where we've had some incidents on the blog in the past too, so I would remind everyone to please be civil in their replies in this thread as well. After all, my allergies are causing me to feel like shit right now and I left my Zyrtec at home - I am crabby about that.

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kehnonymous

February 12th, 2016 at 2:24 PM ^

It's a bad look by UT to try and shush this, to put it mildly.  I can understand why they do it, to not attract negative publicity but I think all of us at Michigan can tell you how well keeping mum is gonna work.  For non-M fans reading this, I sadly guarantee this has happened or will happen at your favorite school.

There's a quote by the Lady Vols coach in the article that I want to bring to light here as being symptomatic of the problem:  

“We just travel in groups and do what you’re supposed to do,” Warlick said. “You just don’t travel late at night. Our kids feel extremely safe on our campus. Our campus is extremely safe, and I think kids got to be responsible and they’ve got to be smart. You don’t go out by yourself at night, I don’t care where you are.

I'm not trying to slam Coach Warlick - after all, she is right about all of this and, as a woman, I'm certain she wants campus sexual assualt to go away as much as anyone else, if not more.  But on UT's campus, on our campus, and every other campus, there's another woman in the same social circles at the same parties who has less impulse control, who's "easier" and more sexually liberal and who's not a hard-working role model straight A student holding it down.

She doesn't deserve to be raped either.

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MIMark

February 12th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^

It also comes off as a bit of a confirmation that campus indeed is not safe. If women feel they need to walk in groups to feel safe, that means there is either a real safety problem or a perceived safety problem. Both are unacceptable on a college campus, not to mention inconducive to an environment of higher learning.

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kehnonymous

February 12th, 2016 at 6:28 PM ^

I mean it is common sense and if I had a daughter I wouldn't tell her any different because of the reality she faces or blame any parent/authority figure that does.  But the bottom line is that this is an unacceptable status quo and we should also be assigning even greater responsiblity to our sons, well, not assault women.

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Yeoman

February 12th, 2016 at 9:09 PM ^

As far as I can tell, not a single one of the alleged victims was "traveling late at night" or "going out by herself." They aren't being jumped by strangers while walking across town, they're getting assaulted by people they know. The problem isn't whether you're safe on your way to the party, it's whether you're safe after you get there.

Baylor's official responses had this tone, too. It's as if the supposed adults don't even know what sexual assault is.

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Fenrir the Righteous

February 12th, 2016 at 5:19 PM ^

Yeah, what I find most strange about this "culture" stuff as it pertains to title IX university cases is when auxiliary student athletes who are not the perpetrators of the rape still get in on the viloence/intimidation. In this article, how poisonous is the "culture" of the football team that scholarship athletes are jumping their "teammates"? I remember seeing a "team rules" pic of a locker room somewhere (I'm going to take a wild leap and say it was OSU) that listed stuff like "No drugs, no drunk driving, no hitting women, no raping women". At the time I was like "that's a little in the nose", but better a culture of overt dialogue than the alleged incidents at UT.

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