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We welcome Bowdren's call for compassion, but as far as the rally and march go, why and how can we expect survivors of abuse not to express anger at their aggressor?
...encourage to read Kelly A.M. Bowdren's compassionate conclusion in her editorial "Take Your Night and..." (April 21, 1994), for I too am of the mind that "the real solution to violence against women would attempt to forge some compassion between the sexes, rather than demonstrate how women can abuse men when the Night is finally theirs." The reactivity and identity-orientation of campus and cultural politics so often seem antithetical to the purposes of each party in the arguments. It is often also difficult for those who descry this apparent hypocrisy not to aggravate the conflicts. Compassion...
If I have learned anything since, it is that accusations, no matter how justified they may seem to the accuser (be she/he "rapist", "feminist" or critic), never resolve conflicts; and the "compassion" we talk about is at once the most necessary and the most difficult task we can set before...
This is not to say that rape doesn't happen, or even that the majority of those speaking at Take Back the Night are lying about what happened to them (I don't know). Furthermore, this is not to say that those who mistakenly think they are raped do not...
A real solution to violence against women would attempt to forge some compassion between the sexes, rather than demonstrate how women can abuse men when the Night is finally theirs.