By Katie Grivna / Senior Staff Writer, NT Daily.

A once-thriving organization on campus is now inactive despite a recent effort to restart the group.

The UNT chapter of Men Against Violence was initially started on campus by male student athletes with the goal of ending violence of all kinds.

“Out of 35,000 students, there have to be some people who see it as a problem and something definitely worth their time,” said Derek Kerl, a member of the organization and UNT graduate. “I would hope so.”

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We could have done anything with our time that evening. So why did we protest? The answer is simple: “Girls Gone Wild,” Mantra Films and founder Joe Francis promote the exploitation and objectification of young women.

Francis claims that he is giving women the chance to empower themselves. They contend that they are doing young women a favor. This couldn’t be further from the truth. How does GGW operate? First of all, many club owners actually pay GGW to come to their club. Mantra producers and cameramen often follow girls around clubs, handing them free drinks and cash in an effort to ‘persuade’ them into their bus to perform sexual acts. If the girls say ‘no,’ they follow them around until they are drunk enough to say ‘yes’ and they film these intoxicated girls signing consent. [Read more →]

“Let Your Man Out” by Jaron Benjamin

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I recently saw a television advertisement for Coca Cola’s Full Throttle energy drink that featured different sorts of men chasing after a Full Throttle big rig. And by doing so, each individual mob member reclaimed something that they, apparently, did not have before—the right to be a real man. [Read more →]