TO THE EDITOR:
Amidst a sea of negativity comes a ray of hope.
In the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing a lot of negativity in the DTH regarding sexism, in both the articles that have been published and the letters to the editor responding to those articles.
And while bringing up problematic issues encourages the discourse around the oppression of women in our society, it has left me with an overall feeling of needing more positive articles to balance out the negativity.
And Tim Longest’s article, “As allies, males have a role in ending violence against women,” fulfilled that need for me.
His article regarding the role of both men and women in ending violence against women was one of the most encouraging articles I’ve read all semester, and I greatly appreciate him and the DTH for publishing it.
As Longest points out in his article, addressing men’s role in women’s violence is a really tough issue to discuss. We don’t want to think about how there are people we know who might have suffered interpersonal violence or perpetrated such violence.
But it’s a conversation worth having if we are ever going to end it.
As many people on campus know, this month is Relationship Violence Awareness Month. So as a person in a society filled with these issues, get involved.
