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

[Joanna Chiu]

Many of those people are WAM-connected. Hurray! Thanks for sharing, Sharon!


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Sharon Haywood
<haywood.sharon at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's somewhat encouraging to see the tweets related to DiManno's article:
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> 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
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Sharon Haywood <haywood.sharon at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> https://twitter.com/wamvancity
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>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Candace <cancou at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> Thanks! I like yours better!
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>>> Sent from Samsung Mobile
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>>>
>>> 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:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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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