Anonymous
11/25/2014 14:44
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
A police station on every fraternity row, fully stocked with rape kits and counselors.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 14:43
Subject: Re:What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:An eye for an eye would fix this problem very quickly.
You mean raping the rapists? I'm not sure they would mind.
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
11/25/2014 14:40
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:a better handle on the concept of rape vs. regret
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
11/25/2014 14:39
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
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.
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
11/25/2014 14:39
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Middlebury got rid of frats. Here's how:
http://www.newsweek.com/inside-colleges-killed-frats-good-231346
http://www.newsweek.com/inside-colleges-killed-frats-good-231346
Anonymous
11/25/2014 14:37
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
a better handle on the concept of rape vs. regret
Anonymous
11/25/2014 14:34
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
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.
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
11/25/2014 14:12
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
I was not afraid of my high school teenager dating. Men who have experience in committed, loving relationships with women don't become rapists.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 12:42
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Too easy to claim rape, increase the threshold
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.
A culture where people are still giving perv Bill Cosby standing ovations.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 12:41
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Students, especially young women, need to watch the binge drinking of alcohol.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 12:40
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:Too easy to claim rape, increase the threshold
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
11/25/2014 11:11
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
+1. Rape is a crime of violence and should be legally treated as such.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh, I am the OP and I forgot my number one thought was that it is positively stupid for colleges to prosecute rape or sexual assault. This is 100% a police matter and should be treated that way.
ding ding ding.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 11:09
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Too easy to claim rape, increase the threshold
Anonymous
11/25/2014 10:56
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:Oh, I am the OP and I forgot my number one thought was that it is positively stupid for colleges to prosecute rape or sexual assault. This is 100% a police matter and should be treated that way.
ding ding ding.
Anonymous
11/25/2014 10:55
Subject: What needs to change in our culture for rape to be less common on college campuses?
Anonymous wrote:1) Drop the drinking age to 18 so kids can go to bars, not frats.
2) Include sexual violence as part of sex ed, early in school.
3) Outlaw any fraternity/sorority/team that includes any kind of initiation ritual. Of any kind.
4) Make fraternities/sororities go co-ed.
5) Mandatory seminars on sexual behavior and violence throughout college.
Not bad, except #5 is ridiculous.