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Holy crap.  So what you are saying is that if you appear in a Girls Gone Wild Video, drunken, with no panties on at a Frat Party, that should in no way constitute a pattern of behavior that calls into question your accusation of rape against a frat boy that you got drunk with and put a condom on the next week?

It seems almost impossible to imagine that these rape crisis centers do not give simple advice--if you drink, stay in control.  Drink around friends that will look out for you.  Do not go into private places or send mixed signals to men as this behavior may indeed produce consequences that you do not want, if indeed you do not want to have sex.

This is the real world people.  Once you get a little older than say 22, you grow out of the naive notion that going to a bar and getting fucked up and passing out is a safe idea.  You don’t see a lot of 30 year olds doing it regularly if they do not intend to get pounded like a cheap steak. 

We have the expectation that colleges intent to expose students to the real world and prepare them for it, not simply provide a playground for our kids to get shitfaced and have indiscriminate sex with men they don’t know.  It is not a sex club or a bathhouse, it is a univeristy that costs a shit load of money.

One more thought--

Why not allow these “alleged” victims to sue the universities for providing an environment conducive to sexual assaults by not cracking down on underage drinking and drug use?  Why not sue them for allowing the consumption of alcohol on campus and try to get punitive damages because the universities are the ones telling us what a problem this campus rape epidemic is, yet they take no steps to actually reduce the factors that allegedly lead to it.

Let the lawyers sue them.  Then you will see how quick the university system is to scapegoat the “victims” into being at least partially responsible.

Why not allow these “alleged” victims to sue the universities for providing an environment conducive to sexual assaults by not cracking down on underage drinking and drug use?

This does happen (the suing part). It was a good article, but it failed to address the litigious half of the “campus rape industry’s” origins. Universities ameliorate the “environment” factor by setting up these anti-rape departments and workshops in order to avoid lawsuits—or at least to avoid the “bad environment” argument in a lawsuit.

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Campus rape movement?

You people actually believe there is such a thing as a campus rape movement?

Jeebus...I’m used to reading crazy on this blog but you’ve offically hit a new low.

You people actually believe there is such a thing as a campus rape movement?

Your argument is with the author who was quoted.
Maybe if you read the article the context would explain it. Or perhaps you could have an adult explain it to you? (If you know any!)

Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

You people actually believe there is such a thing as a campus rape movement?

There is an entire industry promoting the idea that everyone is a victim of something.  Whether it is the “racism industry” led by Jackson and Sharpton that is interested in promoting the stereotype that blacks are always victims of racism, or it is the feminist movement on college campuses that advocates for women to have the right to “hook up” whenever they please, to drink to the point of passing out, and to engage in sexually provocative behavior without any consequences, yet when women pass out at parties and end up in bed with a stranger, they advocate that such an incident is a rape simply because the female wasn’t in control of her faculties at the time.

The academics have long felt that campuses should allow the freedom for all different types of behavior and they have entire sex fairs and programs dedicated to creating a liberal (as in no holds barred) environment.  Yet there are consequences of making bad decisions.  It is the very idea of the new age hippy parenting that kids figure out the consequences but have the freedom to experiment. 

I only say that there is both a biological and historically proven reason for some of the social mores that we have.  The campus rape industry fails to target the underlying behaviors that lead to these incidents, yet screams victimhood.  They do little to prevent it because discouraging binge drinking makes the women who engage in it, yet suffer the consequences amounts to “blaming the victim”.  Read the article in its entirity before you bitch about our comments.  Then bitch about the article itself before complaining about our responses.

In a related story, some of the Duke lacrosse players are suing Duke university for the treatment they receive during their alleged rape fiasco.  Perhaps if universities have to fork over millions in civil suits, some of this will change. [Don’t hold you breath]

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