Mostly women attended the vigil. I'm very disappointed with mens' attitudes toward sexual assault. Speakers encouraged audience members to transfer negative feelings of fear into positive social change by volunteering and educating the audience on issues of womens' violence. Speakers also spread the message that stopping violence against women requires the cooperation and involvement of men. By not helping we are contributing to the problem and not to the solution.
Some people shrug and say, 'another rape,' but when it happens close to home it's different.