Life Imitates Art

[Trausti]

Seventy-two women’s and civil-rights groups on Wednesday announced a campaign to enlist the federal government in pressuring colleges to protect students from harassment via anonymous social-media applications like Yik Yak.

The groups have sent the U.S. Education Department a letter calling for it to treat colleges’ failure to monitor anonymous social media and to pursue online harassers as a violation of federal civil-rights laws guaranteeing equal educational access.

The letter says many colleges have cited "vague First Amendment concerns" to shirk their obligation to respond to harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior via such applications. It calls on the department’s Office for Civil Rights to require colleges to fight such online abuse by taking steps like identifying and disciplining perpetrators and creating technological barriers to the use of social-media applications that harassers favor.

http://chronicle.com/article/Women-s-Groups-Urge-Colleges/233864

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[bigfield]

I'm surprised they even have the courage to show up on campus. Bless their courageous little hearts.


UMW President Strikes Back At Feminist Group Over Complaint About Yik Yak Threats
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/06/09/umw-feminist-yik-yak-threats_n_7539264.html?ir=Australia

The specific posts Hurley is referring to are "Dandy's about to kill a bitch...or two" and "Gonna tie these feminists to a radiator and grape them in the mouth." The first, though not a direct quote from the show, is a reference to "American Horror Story." The second is a spin on a "Whitest Kids U Know" skit in which a giant bunch of grapes chases frightened children and the dialogue is based on rape jokes.

Julia Michels, president of FUC, told HuffPost her group had no idea these were pop culture reference and that members had assumed the use of "grape" was an attempt to get around Yik Yak's filters for certain words. As far as they knew, Michels said, that post was a rape threat.


Michels said she was frustrated people were downplaying the severity of the posts because they were references to TV shows. "Even if that's true," she added, "that's still joking about rape."

Life must be hard when you don't have a sense of humour.

 

[Deepak]

Life must be hard when you don't have a sense of humour.

Well - they did name their organization FUC...