TO THE EDITOR:
We were concerned by the Daily Dose headline “Woman in library had it coming” in Friday’s Daily Tar Heel.
While we understand the headline was intended to be a play on words related to the accompanying article’s content about a man who ejaculated on a woman studying in a library, this headline selection makes light of a sexual assault.
Jokes about rape myths should never be considered funny.
Women have worked for decades to combat the assumption that survivors of sexual assault deserved to be assaulted, whether because of their past sexual histories, what they were wearing or how much they’d been drinking.
Police officers and the media have often contributed to society’s negative judgment of survivors. To mix humor with victim-blaming statements is simply a poor editorial decision.
Leah Josephson
Journalism and French
Annie Clark
Political Science and Psychology
