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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember thinking Long Duck Dong was offensive. But the rest seemed completely normal.

I don't want to make this political, but when the Kavanaugh stuff was happening I had a hard time explaining to my younger friends that date rape wasn't something we had words for. Girls were blamed for making poor choices and we all took that at face value--it would have been unthinkable for many of us to call the police or tell your parents. Thank goodness times have changed.[/quote]

This.  My college roommate was messing around with a guy and he didn’t stop when she asked him. We didn’t have words for it.  It wasn’t considered rape, nor consent.  There was nothing to do but try to forget about it.  If she hadn’t been a virgin that might have been easier. He probably was one too.

To my eternal regret I didn’t have the emotional maturity or the words to support her at the time...going to the police (or more likely campus security) would not have helped.  We just didn’t talk about it after that weekend.  I couldn’t handle it and didn’t know how to help.  [/quote]

How old are you people? I'm 51, about to mark my 30th college reunion, and we certainly knew what date rape was when I was in college. We absolutely "had words for" it. I realize that awareness has expanded and some norms have in fact changed, but unless you're elderly, date rape was already well understood decades ago.[/quote]

I’m 51 and the only time I heard of “days rape” was on “one life to live” ... I forget the blond characters name but she was date raped. It’s the only time I heard the word and [b]it was a fantasy  to think that police would care if you reported it.[/b][/quote]

I don't recall things being like that at all. It would have been difficult to prove it, if the girl were on a date with the guy and there was no sign of force.  But yes, if there was a sign of forced sex on a date of course it was treated as rape. [/quote]

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