Hello fellow feminists,

My first post ever! I am sad it must be such an angry one, but I am extremely angry with one of my campus newspapers today.

The Badger Herald has a regular "shoutout" feature which allows students to send a shoutout (or an anti-shoutout) to people/places/events on campus. Today, the following shoutout ran in print:

"ASO to the girl who not only passed out while we were fooling around, but then woke up and asked, "is it gonna hurt?" then proceeded to pass out again. i'm still wondering, does that count as consent?"

Please take a moment of your time to contact the editor at editor@badgerherald.com to explain that by making the egregious decision to print this shoutout, his organization chose to condone flippant attitudes about rape, sexual assault, and the degradation of women on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Many thanks,

An Angry Feminist Badger

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October 28, 2009 3:43 PM

[0+]  TiernaFeminista said:

Wow Badger Herald.

I am a UW alumni, still live in Madison, didn't see this shout out since I didn't read the paper today.

I'll make sure to email them.

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October 28, 2009 4:09 PM

[0+]  TiernaFeminista said:

PS. Did you contact the campus women's center and the rape crisis center to see if they'd call/send a letter as well?

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October 28, 2009 7:58 PM

[0+]  allegra said:

Wow. I'm sorry to hear this. :( I'm also a UW alum.

Though, to be honest, as someone with inside knowledge of the paper, I'm not surprised. While I was in school, we had a conservative male editor who decided it was really that important to print the Muhammad cartoons (the ones from the Danish newspaper). Because conservatives love to be "controversial" - as long as it's insulting somebody non-white and/or non-male.

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October 28, 2009 9:05 PM

[0+]  Tinnie said:

disgusting. someone should do ASO to "the guy who thinks it's ok to assault drunk girls. that's called rape here and in the eyes of the law."

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October 29, 2009 4:10 PM

[0+]  EAMD said:

Thanks for your support, everyone. The emails are rolling in. We've also got a great deal of the medical school administration signing a letter (I'm a med student), as well as several undergrad student orgs. I will keep you updated on the results. Nothing in the paper today.

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