We all remember (right?) the scene in Broadcast News where William Hurt tears up while interviewing a woman who was date raped–a phenomenon that had been unnoticed in the US until then. (“My cousin,” mouths Joan Cusack, nodding sadly, to the other women watching. It was a silent epidemic.) After that, attention flared. Women who were in college in the mid-90s will remember their first Take Back the Night rally–and maybe even their second.
But there hasn’t been much attention paid lately. Not even after a December report by the Centers for Disease Control found that on average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States–or more than 12 million women and men a year. Listen below.
