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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I sort of agree with you, but I sort of don't. I think that the acceptance of sex as something that starts much earlier than it used to is partly responsible for the commodification of women as sex objects. I know it's always happened, but if you look at pop culture now, it's so focused on women and girls as sex objects, and with them not having value for any other reason, I think it's partly due to the fact that it's happening before kids have the intellectual maturity to realize that it's devaluing them.
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I don't mean to be critical...  this has been said over and over again for at least 30 years. We still have the exact same problems, so this dialog is not changing anything.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/rapebait-fraternity-georgia-tech_n_6082952.html  Unfortunately nothing will change until people/fraternities/universities are sued.  [/quote]

This is disgusting. Thugs on every college campus disguised as preppy college smarty pants. They are just alcoholic rapists.[/quote]

So the question is, what do we do about this rape culture to change it?

It seems like exposure helps, but at what cost to the victim?  I can guarantee you that Jackie was picked because she is probably a quiet girl (I don't know her) and they assumed that she would not go to the police.

[b]The shame associated with being raped is what keeps women quiet[/b], and we don't want to doubly expose them to abuse by making them publically judged.

This issue with UVA is a starting point, we have the university in charge of the sexual assaults and it's akin to having the fox watching the henhouse.   No university wants to publicize their rape statistics, and I agree that this is probably a problem not just at UVA but at other colleges.

I don't think doing away with the greek system would make a difference, if anything a bunch of guys can rent a house together in any college town.

I don't have an answer, just throwing this out for discussion...

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That is the answer, though, right? There is a social stigma to sexual crimes, and abusers count on their victims not wanting to be stigmatized. (This applies to domestic violence, child molestation, date rape--any situation where the abuser is known to the victim, and often victimizes them repeatedly.) If victims started naming names, I think a lot of men would think twice. Not all of them. But some--especially the ones with a lot to lose.

I am not in any way blaming victims for NOT wanting to go public--this is society's problem to solve. There is too much bias/more concern about false accusation than underreporting, and victims are more likely to NOT be believed (see: Cosby, B.) than to be believed, but we all have to do a better job of creating a culture and systems that promote victim's rights. [/quote]

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