[Wamvan] Awful coverage of sexual assault against men: thoughts?

[Sharon Haywood]

It's somewhat encouraging to see the tweets related to DiManno's article:

https://twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Fcity_hall%2F2013%2F04%2F09%2Fsexual_assault_case_involving_four_female_suspects_a_bizarre_anomaly.html




On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Sharon Haywood
<haywood.sharon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a Twitter list with all of the WAVan members? It would be good
> for us to mobilize our efforts on that platform ....
>
> And Candace, I have no problem accessing WAMVan's Twitter page. Try
> clearing your cache. Here's the link:
>
> https://twitter.com/wamvancity
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Candace <cancou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, this case is pretty disturbing. Thanks everyone for sharing.
>>
>> Joanna, I can't seem to access the Twitter page. It starts to load and
>> then says "sorry, that page does not exist...". Did anyone else have this
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks, Candace
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2013-04-10, at 2:59 AM, "Chiu.joanna5" <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! I like yours better!
>>
>>
>> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>>
>>
>> Sharon Haywood <sharon at adiosbarbie.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Joanna! I've tweeted @Sharon_Haywood:
>>
>> Editors of @*StarGTANews* <https://twitter.com/StarGTANews>: Guys get
>> sexually assaulted too: http://bit.ly/YiSbGX  <http://t.co/8hPJoHjNU7>Media coverage that makes it a joke only adds to the stigma
>>
>> Assault is assault. Unacceptable that @*StarGTANews*<https://twitter.com/StarGTANews>turned sexual assault of a man into a joke
>> http://fb.me/2tzyqf85Z  <http://t.co/prPZgnIf7e> via @*wamvancity*<https://twitter.com/wamvancity>PLS RT
>>
>> Hope we can gain some traction on social media ....
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:14 AM, <wamvan-request at lists.resist.ca> wrote:
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>>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:13:40 +0800
>>> From: Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "wamvan at lists.resist.ca" <wamvan at lists.resist.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [Wamvan] Awful coverage of sexual assault against men:
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>>> Hi, here is the Facebook post:
>>>
>>> Please write to editors of this Toronto Star article (and others) making
>>> a
>>> sexual assault of a 19-year-old man into a joke.
>>>
>>> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/04/09/sexual_assault_case_involving_four_female_suspects_a_bizarre_anomaly.htmlResource
>>> on myths about sexual assault against men here
>>>
>>> http://aasas.ca/index.php/main/page/guys-are-sexually-assaulted-too-2010-09-22-13-09-48
>>>
>>> And a quick way to reach editors without writing a formal letter is on
>>> Twitter. Bigger and mid-sized media companies usually have dedicated
>>> social
>>> media managers that monitor reader responses to their articles.
>>>
>>> Here's @wamvancity's tweet. Please RT! We're at
>>> https://twitter.com/wamvancity
>>>
>>> Please write to editors of @StarGTANews <https://twitter.com/StarGTANews>
>>> who
>>> made a sexual assault of a 19-year-old man into a joke
>>> #rapemyths<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rapemyths>
>>>  http://fb.me/2tzyqf85Z
>>>
>>>
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