JDKJ said:
Nurb said:
MasochisticMuse said:
Nurb said:
MasochisticMuse said:
Nurb said:
His crime is being a stupid teenage boy not realizing he's in a pop-feminized society that considers hurting girls' feelings a criminal offense and any comment on female sexuality as rape.
That sounds like some paranoid BS to me.
You've obviously never been to a mandatory university "You're all dumb cavemen that need to be taught how not to rape women" presentation that accusess male students they're unknowingly perpetuating a "rape culture"
http://thefire.org/article/12301.html
You are aware that university is where a lot of people get raped right? People get raped and 99.9% of the time it's men doing it, so why not talk to them about the issue? Or are you one of those people who thinks women are responsible for their own rape and therefore only preventative "don't get yourself raped you silly bint" techniques should be taught?
If we can give lectures to women telling them to always go out in pairs, watch their drinks and not go out on the street at night, then we can give lectures to men educating them on consent laws and negative attitudes towards women and sexuality. Just because
you know how to behave yourself doesn't necessarily mean the guy next to you does. Saying "hey, don't rape girls" may hurt your pride, but if I ran a university I'd rather hurt a couple feelings and hopefully prevent a rape than pretend everyone has their shit together and then find out some woman got assaulted.
Campus rape is rare, and when it happens it gets publicity. Giving a presentation that suggests college students find rape acceptable and requiring male students attend it makes the assumption all male students are idiots who don't know what rape is and will most likely attempt it.
"Hey, don't rape girls" doesn't hurt my pride. Even suggesting any adult man needs to be told this is insulting and prejudicial because you're saying I don't know what it is and will most likely try it if not told
It's sexism to suspect all men as being potential rapists based on their gender. You don't even see it in what you're saying do you? Let's Replace just a couple words in your statement.
Replaced words are bold:
"Just because you know how to behave yourself doesn't necessarily mean the black guy next to you does. Saying "hey, don't steal" may hurt your pride, but if I ran a city I'd rather hurt a couple feelings and hopefully prevent a robbery than pretend everyone has their shit together and then find out some store got robbed"
See how lumping men in with a small percentage of actual rapists looks now? "ALL men need to be told..." is as big a problem as saying "ALL black men need to be told..."
I'm not changing around sentences or reordering words here, If there was nothing prejudicial about your statement, then it wouldn't come across that way no matter who I replaced "man" with or what crime/negative action I replaced "rape" with.
Campus rape ain't all that rare. It's reportedly 1 in 4 college women. And that's for a crime that is notoriously under-reported.
25% of college women are raped? You must have heard wrong because do you have any idea how big a chunk that is?
--In the last count taken in 2007, there were 18,248,128 students in the US that year:
--57% of those were women, making it 10,401,433 female students
--25% of that is 2,600,358
--So that would mean 2,600,358 women were raped just in college alone, and going by what you said, probably more than that
--A smaller percentage of men in college means there would have to be a greater percentage of rapists among them, both single and multiple offenders, to prey upon the greater number of women. That would mean anywhere from 30%-50% of male college students were rapists in 2007.
The FBI reported only
89,000 rape cases NATIONWIDE in 2008...
Do you see how media coverage, constant suspicion, and worry makes people think that rapists and rape is everywhere?
The Duke team getting falsely accused of rape of a black woman (trying not to appear a slut) were condemned immediately by their fellow students, the country, and their professors shows the panicky hysteria involved. Had there not been cell phone video of it proving the sex was consentual, those guys would be sitting in jail, which are nothing but monster factories today, being brutalized by other inmates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_the_United_States
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-06-rape-decline_N.htm