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Detectives Rios and Johnson slipped into a lecture auditorium in Mofford Hall and took seats at the back of the room. The lights were dark while a popular sword-and-sorcery television show was being projected onto a screen. In the scene, a male character forced himself on a female character, while she struggled to resist his advances.
“Geez, this is supposed to be educational?” whispered Johnson with a look of disgust on her face.
Rios nodded. “Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”
At the conclusion of the scene, the video stopped and the lights went up. Professor Deborah Raymond stood at a lectern at the front of the room.
“Once again, a popular show depicts r**e as just another everyday occurrence with no repercussions. The hero of the show is free to treat women as objects to be used,
