RINJ Foundation Says University of Calgary Campus Culture and Afghanistan Rape
Culture have Too Much in Common
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Toronto - November
24, 2011 - Today the RINJ Foundation
released detailed information about another
victory against Facebook! A poorly founded University of Calgary Debate
Society event with an event page on Facebook has been killed by RINJ.
"This house would hold women partially accountable for
rape," was the initial resolution but the debate university shamelessly
advertised in its Facebook event page was to "hold women partially
accountable for rape prevention".
The university's weak response to complaints was that
"People do often debate things they don’t necessarily believe in..."
RINJ maintains in its public documents and mission
statements that sex without consent is a criminal sexual assault, a
crime that should be punished with mandatory prison time and years of
supervised probation; and that victims in the event cannot be blamed for
rape, rapists are the criminal perpetrators, victims are the injured
innocents!
RINJ spokesperson and co-founder Micheal O'Brien said
on Friday, "RINJ directors are furious. At first we wondered if
this was some kind of "Shock and Awe" headline but realized after
investigation that a "blame-the-victim" mindset prevails among male
students and the anti-rape group's campaign called "Don't Be That Guy"
was being railroaded by misogynistic factions on campus.
"The students and Faculty advisers at University of
Calgary", he added, "clearly did not have a good grasp
of 21st century Canadian views on misogyny; rape; the statistics on rape
suggesting male rapists are raping women, not female victims; and that
"no" means no!
"Some thinking on women's rights at the University of
Calgary," the RINJ spokesman added, "resembles the thinking in the
darkest barren valleys of Afghanistan. We remind the university
that in Canada, women now have the right to vote, and women have not
ever in Canada's statutes been made accountable for a rapists proclivity
to rape. Wake up, women are equal to men in Canada."
To the University of Calgary, the RINJ co-founder advanced,
"You live in a very conservative province of Canada under a Conservative
Federal Government. The prevalent thinking in the jurisprudence of these
regimes is that rapists should be sent to jail for a long time. Rape is
no joke and you should think very carefully before ever sharing a view
that promotes what is increasingly being accepted as a major crime
in Canada, rape. You wouldn't promote the concept of a gas bar attendant
being deserving of an armed robbery, do not under any circumstances
promote the concept of a woman deserving to be raped. It is both
unlawful and immoral to do so"
RINJ strongly suggests the University of Calgary adopt
an educational programme on rape for the entire University.
“I am appalled and livid. This is not a simple lapse in
judgment; this is horrifying,” wrote posters on the now removed Facebook
page. The real victory is that the debate resolution has been cancelled,
not just the page.
RINJ Foundation is an international organization based in Toronto and
founded by persons in Canada, Britain and Australia.
RINJ seeks removal of web content
condoning sexual assault and rape.
Allowing this content on social networking sites further normalises a
rape culture and the high instance of sexual violence in global society.
1)
RINJ reports all inappropriate content to site owners and advertisers as
well as law enforcement where that seems appropriate.
2)
RINJ reports to advertisers any ads
appearing on pro-rape, pro-child-molestation content pages and groups.
3) RINJ promotes a global boycott of advertisers and their products
advertised on pro-rape content pages.
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