#  Phyllis Thompson in the New Yorker Online 

 





December 07, 2016

 

 

WGS Professor [Phyllis Thompson](/people/phyllis-thompson) has penned an article, “[The Dehumanizing Sexism of the Harvard Men’s Soccer Team’s ‘Scouting Report’](http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-dehumanizing-sexism-of-the-harvard-mens-soccer-teams-scouting-report),” for the *New Yorker Online*. Thompson wrote the piece in response to the news that the sexually explicit “Scouting Report” produced in 2012 by the Harvard Men’s Soccer Team and exposed by the *[Harvard Crimson](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/10/25/harvard-mens-soccer-2012-report/)* was not a one-off, but a years-long tradition.

Thompson writes "At Harvard, I teach a class on feminism in the twenty-first century, and my students have sometimes expressed despondence, especially during this election cycle: How can they make a difference, given the magnitude and complexity of the obstacles women still face across the world? It’s a fair question. But I hope that they are heartened, as I am, by the eloquence and dignity their peers on the women’s soccer team have demonstrated in confronting the misogyny closest to home."



 

 

 



 

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