Wednesday, 26 October 2016 - 10:43am
from https://www.goodcall.com/news/watershed-moment-college-activists-sexual-...
The economy, jobs growth and terrorism. Typical issues for a U.S. presidential campaign. But a funny thing happened on the way to the White House this time around: Sexual assault became a major campaign focus...
“Trump’s greatest gift to our nation may be that he has forced us to take our heads out of the sand and recontextualize sexual assault and rape, no longer relegating them to the backroom as a ‘women’s problem,’ but rather forcing them out the world stage,” says Cindi Love, executive director of ACPA-College Student Educators International, the student affairs association. “Trump’s long-tenured perpetrator pattern, mindset, behaviors and understanding of consent offer us the opportunity to understand what we are willing to tolerate or willing to reject. It is up to us.”