perpetrators. Moreover, her quote suggests that she believes her assault could have been prevented had the college made more efforts to educate students on the issue. Additionally, reflected on the lack of safety she feels on campus, saying, is “Colby not a safe place for me anymore—I do not feel safe. She does not attend school dances “ because scare and frustrate her.” Penny* also mentioned how the assault has affected “they her relationships, admitting that that it is hard for her to trust men, and that will be a long “it time before she is able to be intimate with someone again.” Mary*, who had a friend who transferred her freshman year after she was sexually assaulted by a football player. He forced her to perform oral sex on him. When the survivor reported the assault to her Community Advisor, her Community Advisor notified Campus Life, who dismissed the case and told the CA to inform the survivor that the case would “pursuing not be worth it.” The survivor, frustrated at the lack of disciplinary action, angry that college officials did not seem to believe her, and concerned for her own safety, decided to leave and transferred to another institution. Mary* also described an instance where she was at a party and a football player lifted her dress up, humiliating and objectifying her in front of a large group of men. While this instance seems to be more an instance of sexual harassment than sexual assault, it is important to look both at the difference and the at the similarities between the two, particularly in how sexual harassment and sexual assault are both bound up in issues of power inequalities that are rooted in structural sexism and misogyny. Moreover, while one must recognize the important difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault, one cannot examine sexual harassment without looking at how sexual harassment oftentimes precedes and leads to sexual assault, since; again, both sexual harassment and sexual assault
perpetrators. Moreover, her quote suggests that she believes her assault could have been prevented had the college made more efforts to educate students on the issue. Additionally, reflected on the lack of safety she feels on campus, saying, “Colby is not a safe place for me anymore—I do not feel safe. “ She does not attend school dances because “they scare and frustrate her.” Penny* also mentioned how the assault has affected her relationships, admitting that that it is hard for her to trust men, and that “it will be a long time before she is able to be intimate with someone again.” Mary*, who had a friend who transferred her freshman year after she was sexually assaulted by a football player. He forced her to perform oral sex on him. When the survivor reported the assault to her Community Advisor, her Community Advisor notified Campus Life, who dismissed the case and told the CA to inform the survivor that “pursuing the case would not be worth it.” The survivor, frustrated at the lack of disciplinary action, angry that college officials did not seem to believe her, and concerned for her own safety, decided to leave and transferred to another institution. Mary* also described an instance where she was at a party and a football player lifted her dress up, humiliating and objectifying her in front of a large group of men. While this instance seems to be more an instance of sexual harassment than sexual assault, it is important to look both at the difference and the at the similarities between the two, particularly in how sexual harassment and sexual assault are both bound up in issues of power inequalities that are rooted in structural sexism and misogyny. Moreover, while one must recognize the important difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault, one cannot examine sexual harassment without looking at how sexual harassment oftentimes precedes and leads to sexual assault, since; again, both sexual harassment and sexual assault
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