Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

Accuracy in Academia ^ | March 20, 2012 | Deborah Lambert

[Academiadotorg]

Spring had barely sprung on the campus of Mississippi State University this year when some 400 pairs of high heels were heard clicking around the campus, according to mensactivism.org. They belonged to Mississippi State men, who were pressured to walk around campus wearing high heels as part of a rape awareness event, “funded by a $300,000 grant to the university under the Violence against Women Act.”

Fortunately, there were only four rapes on this campus from 2005 to 2010 – hardly an epidemic. Nevertheless, the grant money was used to flood the campus with preventive education information. In the campus bathrooms, for example, were flyers bearing the message that: “One in four women will be raped in their lifetime,” a much-repeated statistic of doubtful authenticity.

The annual routine of the men clickety clacking around in high heels for Rape Awareness Week is not unique to Mississippi State. It is replicated on campuses every spring from Hawaii to Wisconsin.

[houeto]

Campus Police! LMAO!

[houeto]

Any guy who participates in this stupidity need to return his “man card” immediatel;y.

They may have to find another school. Non-participation can carry some serious penalties.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Who wants women to were high heels?

Me! Possibly also Laz.

[muir_redwoods]

Do what I did; just find a taller girl. :)

[Noob1999]

400 pairs of high heels - funded by a $300,000 federal grant!

That’s $750 per pair, so they must have a few quid left over.

I wonder how they’ll blow the rest of the grant?

(And folks, there are no ear-marks, just solid issues based required spending!)

[Noob1999]

400 pairs of high heels - funded by a $300,000 federal grant!

That’s $750 per pair, so they must have a few quid left over.

I wonder how they’ll blow the rest of the grant?

(And folks, there are no ear-marks, just solid issues based required spending!)