Eve Ensler's Huffington Post call to action lives on in circulation on Facebook. While I support her call to fight our culture's light attitude toward rape, and I believe that she will accomplish much with her campaign, her topical-but-yet-somehow-stale hijacking of "Occupy-" to title her call to action left a bitter taste in my mouth.
The Occupy movement proper riddled by indecision, disorganization, and general unproductive chaos. Taking "Occupy-" into your name now only signals a devotion to unfocused anger and retaliation. This is perhaps the fuel a cause can burn in the early days, but unfocused anger accomplishes little for the cause in the long term.
In addition, don't cheapen your efforts by adopting trendy buzz words. These buzz words are exactly what allow someone to "support" the movement without upholding its values. I'm thinking the Livestrong trend of my high school years. Of course such campaigns create awareness, but I think Ensler is after something more than that, perhaps the deeper understanding that can come when someone begins to see behind cultural constructs and assumptions about the way society "should" be, which frees he/she to see how society could be if attitudes were different.
Taking on a cheap, trendy name will only open the door to posers and allow most people to skirt the real issue once again.
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