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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sexual assault is probably no more common in college than it was 30 years ago. I'm not saying that's acceptable, but the real change has been the way it is being reported by the media.

Child molesters were more common decades ago, but people just report on it now more than they used to.[/quote]

In fact, sexual assault and rape are much LESS common than they were 30 years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/sexual-violence-against-women_n_2828653.html

What does the term "rape culture" even mean?

This notion that men are animals, that women are being targeted at every turn, that we have a "rape culture" (what does that even mean?)--it doesn't square with reality. American women are in a better position today than we have ever been. Men today are far more likely to treat women as equals than they were 20 or 40 or 60 years ago and far less likely to see women only in sexual terms.

Even one rape is one too many, but please--let's keep things in perspective. Great progress has been made.[/quote]

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