What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
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Anonymous
Not bad, except #5 is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
ding ding ding. |
Anonymous
| Too easy to claim rape, increase the threshold |
Anonymous
+1. Rape is a crime of violence and should be legally treated as such. |
Anonymous
Inspired by this, I say stop acting as though you can address rape of college students in a vacuum. We live in a rape culture, and we need to address rape accordingly. |
Anonymous
| Students, especially young women, need to watch the binge drinking of alcohol. |
Anonymous
A culture where people are still giving perv Bill Cosby standing ovations. |
Anonymous
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I was not afraid of my high school teenager dating. Men who have experience in committed, loving relationships with women don't become rapists.
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Anonymous
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1 - change our society that is raising children without any sense of empathy. I have no clue how we change our society to make this happen, and it will probably take a LONG time. But it needs to happen. I want to be a part of making it happen, but don't know how to impact that change on a large scale.
2 - decrease the drinking age for beer and wine to 18. Should bring more social activities back to on-campus venues and off-campus bars, and out of fraternities. Should also reduce the pounding of grain and other hard alcohols and the use of illegal drugs. Not that rape didn't happen when the drinking age was 18, but seems like things have become more extreme, are harder to supervise. Anecdotally, college student alcohol poisoning and drug abuse were higher in the early 1990s than they were in the early 1980s when the drinking age was still 18 or 19. 3 - Educate students and faculty on what to do if a friend is assaulted. Get the victim to an emergency room and make *sure* a rape kit is performed. That does not mean that the victim has to press charges, but it collects the evidence if the victim decides to do so in the future. It also gives them the opportunity for Plan B and other precautions. I would expect that going to the ER would also provide the victim with mental health resources to support them through this ordeal. 4 - better training of law enforcement. I can't think of a valid reason to question a victim's attire or sobriety. A defense attorney might do that (although I think that is heinous, but probably considered an acceptable courtroom tactic), but irrelevant to law enforcement. 5 - Fraternities need to have zero tolerance policies on sexual assault, rather than closing ranks and protecting the assailants. |
Anonymous
| a better handle on the concept of rape vs. regret |
Anonymous
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Middlebury got rid of frats. Here's how:
http://www.newsweek.com/inside-colleges-killed-frats-good-231346 |
Anonymous
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Put some clothes on the female news anchors.
Don't play music about raping bitches and hos in public places -- like our schools. Don't let the students rate the professors for 'hotness' on Rate my Professors. Kids get the message that women are basically pieces of meat from many sides. University is just a small part of it. |
Anonymous
So that people who would blame the victim will instead understand that a woman doesn't charge a man with rape because she regrets sleeping with him. That would be great -- I don't know how that theory manages to survive, but it needs to be squashed. |
Anonymous
At first blush this sounds like a good (if un-American) idea, but the problem is that who is going to rape them? It's like torture--it attracts and rewards torturers, and creates torturers out of non-torturers. |
Anonymous
| A police station on every fraternity row, fully stocked with rape kits and counselors. |