THE RINJ FOUNDATION
MEDIA RELEASE - June 10, 2014
Victim
blaming takes on new meaning as
Washington's pretentious Washington Post hosts more misogyny and rape
culture from the right. Sexual assault 'victimhood' [sic] is now a
coveted status that confers privileges says the Post's columnist George
F. Will.Condemning the Obama administration and claiming it is riding to
the rescue of "sexual assault" victims (as if helping rape survivors is
a bad thing), George Will describes the recent spate of rapes as a
"hookup culture" - a "cocktail of hormones, alcohol…"Clearly
the 72-year-old gentleman has never been raped.
.:: Boycott The Washington Post: Cancel All Advertising ::.
Toronto - June 10, 2014 19:59 hrs. -
The RINJ Foundation board met and discussed over the weekend and finally
decided today on a boycott of the "Washington Post" after reading the
Posts' irresponsible rebuttal to criticism of George Will's Friday
column.
"It is the Foundation's position that being a rape survivor is not a
status to be coveted under any circumstance," said The RINJ Foundations
executive director, Micheal O'Brien.
In a statement
released by the RINJ Foundation on its web site, the organization
warned that victim blaming must end in the West's media before the
scourge of rape elsewhere on the globe comes to an end.
"Glorifying rape," says the Foundation's statement, "and blaming future
victims of this heinous crime is the essence of the problem. We call it
a 'Rape Culture'. We accuse the Washington Post of promoting 'Rape
Culture'."
"We are trying to tell people in India
not to rape as two girls are taken down from a hanging tree,
meanwhile George Will says "victimhood" is a coveted status," said
Mr. O'Brien.
The Post’s Fred Hiatt said Will’s Friday column "achieved the goal of a
good op-ed by sparking a [discussion]" but The RINJ Foundation's
position is unequivocal: rape is unacceptable--no discussion.
The RINJ Foundation urges all its supporters and corporate contributors
to cancel advertising in the "Washington Post" until such time as the
'Post' exhibits a more rape-adverse moral compass, adopting a more
realistic and law abiding approach to the topic of rape and apologizes
to all rape survivors for it's cavalier attitude toward their pain and
suffering.
"In all of the thousands of rape survivors we have encountered, none
felt their status was to be coveted," added O'Brien.
For further: http://rinj.org/interactive/?page_id=511
Micheal O'Brien, Executive Director
The RINJ Foundation, [email protected]
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