The college class on avoiding rape. Please move on, nothing to see here.

[thucythucy]

16. You lost me on the last line:

"It's not an outrage that sometimes people are not so dependable. It's a fact of life."

Really, it's not an outrage that some people rape other people? Did you honestly mean to imply that? That rapists aren't commiting outrages, but are simply "not so dependable?" If not, you better clarify or edit your OP, because on the face of it you sound very much like you're trivializing a very important and painful topic.

You never answered the question posted elsewhere on this thread about gay bashing. Should gay students be taught how to act "less gay" so as to avoid situations where they might be gay bashed? Or should the campus administration declare that homophobia will not be tolerated, and gay bashing will be punished to the fullest extent of the law?

Personally, I think ALL students should be offered a course in how to keep themselves safe, in any and all situations.

But I also think that education about rape and sexual violence needs to move way way beyond simply telling women how to modify their behavior so as not to be raped.

I hope you agree (and I hope you ditch the inference that rape is not an outrage).