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In reply to the discussion: Y'know... [View all]GitRDun
(1,846 posts)but I would say they should teach both! My son is a freshman at a big university out west. He's already helped out a couple friends who had been rufeed (not sure I spelled that right), IN HIS FIRST SEMESTER!
I think teaching women away from home for the first time how to keep them self safe is good. Both victims in my son's case had left their friends. From what my son tells me, there are a fair number of kids at school whose sole purpose is to party and get girls. My guess is these are the kids who are most dangerous to young women and the ones who drop out first. I would also say that this slice of college kids has been there forever and will always be a part of college life.
There also DEFINITELY needs to be someone telling the boys to HAVE SOME FRIGGIN RESPECT! These young men who treat women like that must have brutal role models. Just as some of the women need the education, those boys need someone to tell them:
You are not a child anymore, you are a man.
Your presence at the university is to build YOUR house, your folks already built theirs, it is your turn!
Your performance in the class will determine what kind of house you'll physically build, that means something but is not the most important thing.
Your performance OUTSIDE the class means the most! How you deal with your new world and the people in it will go a long way to deciding just what it's like to live in your house! No matter what it looks like!
Is your house going to be a place where women fear for their safety? Where the word "no" means nothing? Where women can be drugged, tricked, or worse yet forced to have sex against their will?
So think long and hard about what kind of house you are building here, because what you do here will follow you through your whole life! YOUR future kids are depending on you!
Well that's my two cents!