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    ilovecarolburnettErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 11:06am

    They did this in June of 1991. It was titled date rape but it was all about rape on college campuses. I guess graduation season and rape stories go together.

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      Brandchanilovecarolburnett
      5/15/14 11:16am

      It is sad this is still and issue 20+ years later.

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      mike5kBrandchan
      5/15/14 11:31am

      I think this has been an issue for 20-thousand years. american colleges didn't invent "young drunk men behaving very badly"

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    samanticsErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 10:30am

    "RAPE: The Crisis in Modern Society"

    Fixed it.

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      thisisamazonmansamantics
      5/15/14 10:35am

      I like your title much more, and would like to provide reference for you when you apply to TIME.

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      thewiredknightsamantics
      5/15/14 1:08pm

      Except the article is about the problem with colleges and rape (and how the colleges handle that. Your title doesn't properly convey this and is too broad for an audience skimming through the aisles to discern what the article is about, your topic would need FAR more space than a newstand magazine has to offer to it and would mislead viewers.

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    Dukes_of_AtlantaErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 10:22am

    How is suggesting that the way higher education handles rape is a crisis trolling? It sounds like they're addressing not just the issue that it exists, but the way it's handled?

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      JosephFinnDukes_of_Atlanta
      5/15/14 10:27am

      Because it's Time and they handle complex issues about as well as the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal; just with more sensational headlines.

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    hironoharaErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 10:56am

    I agree with many of the comments already here, I don't see this as trolling. I think the pennant is actually a pretty clever way to decry the abysmal handling of sexual assault and the generic flag paints it as not only everyone's problem, but as something that is almost celebrated.

    And moreover, it is an issue that is not flashy, and one that not everyone treats like a big deal. I'm kind of surprised at the negative treatment especially in the wake of the 55 schools who were just called out for their especially poor sexual assault policies. If the cover was about something else, the article would be "What about the gross mishandling of sexual assault in places that are essentially mandatory for most people to attend?"

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      tedhendershothironohara
      5/15/14 2:48pm

      I completely agree. With all the doublespeak and weirdness that rape is handled with on campuses, it seemed appropriate and indeed overdue to pick a visually shocking and confrontational image. Like, "cut through the bullshit! We're calling it rape and putting it on a pennant! This is a big deal!" Which, of course, it is, so thanks Time.

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      FlotsamJetsamtedhendershot
      5/20/14 1:16pm

      ..Which is exactly the point I have seen in several other Jez articles when criticizing the handling of cases by colleges and universities. When the language is softened- such as "nonconsensual sex," it sounds much more benign. Let's call it what it is.

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    Sally CErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 11:25am

    I'm a big fan of Jezebel but I think this is a perfect example of how this site is starting to go wrong at times. Instead of arguing against actual wrongs, you're too often trying to create them. If you read the article itself and find TIME's coverage to be lacking, then write a thoughtful, smart, meaningful piece on that. In this case, your two paragraph, flippant, sarcastic take on a cover image reads as a flippant, sarcastic take on rape coverage itself.

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      SafetyCynthiaSally C
      5/15/14 12:20pm

      THIS.

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    Space_RockerErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 10:32am

    Maybe I'm a dumb-dumb and I haven't read the Time article yet so I'm not familiar with the story and how it's framed, but I'm sort of failing to see how this is trolling. I think, rather, it's an eye-grabbing cover (albeit WAY overdue) that draws attention to a pervasive and horrific epidemic. It's better than just seeing Beyonce in her underwear on the cover again.

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      Rhetorical ImpulseSpace_Rocker
      5/15/14 11:43am

      You mean a publication used an eye-grabbing visual for their cover in order to entice people to read their story?

      SAY IT AIN'T SO!

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    ThymeHogErin Gloria Ryan
    5/15/14 12:17pm

    It seems to have had the desired effect — grabbing peoples attention. It's marketing.
    I don't read time outside of waiting for an appointment, so the only exposure to the magazine (& the articles within) are the discussions inspired by the cover on Time magazine.
    +1 for the marketing on that week's issue, it encouraged an unknown number of conversations — about an extremely important topic — without even opening the first page.

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      Sally CErin Gloria Ryan
      5/15/14 10:27am

      Trolling? How is having a very necessary discussion about a serious problem trolling?

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        Seoul SisterErin Gloria Ryan
        5/15/14 11:55am

        Oh no, a Jezebel writer is upset that someone is using a shocking cover to grab attention and get people to read their article. Is that what you mean by trolling season? Because...

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