Public Nudity Takes Away Choice
Anna Sauber Kuntz
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: Opinions
If Smith urges us to be in control of our own lives, shouldn't we also get to control who we see naked? Walking to Seelye from Talbot and going through the space between Northrop and Gillett shouldn't have to come with an R-rating, nor should giving the kitchen at Chase-Duckett your dirty dishes. I signed up to go to a nationally renowned school and get a good education. I didn't sign up to see naked strangers. It isn't as though they warn you in Smith brochures or on campus visits. Seeing as these sorts of things appear to happen on other campuses, I don't see what good transferring would do, and besides, I like my classes here.
In any place outside of college campuses, exposing unwilling people to naked photographs and graphic sexual language is the sort of behavior that lands you in court. If feminists fought so that sexual harassment would be taken seriously, and if we truly want to be equal to men, why should we think it's acceptable for us to do things that we would find disgusting from them?
In any place outside of college campuses, exposing unwilling people to naked photographs and graphic sexual language is the sort of behavior that lands you in court. If feminists fought so that sexual harassment would be taken seriously, and if we truly want to be equal to men, why should we think it's acceptable for us to do things that we would find disgusting from them?