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

[Tsiyu]

66. You are wrong in a very profound way

The fact is, many young men DO NOT think that rape is wrong. The surveys - some in my OP - show that many young men have very misguided ideas about rape and when it is "okay."

It is clear that it is up to us as a society to pick up the slack that bad or absent parenting dropped. Educating men IS key here. Not only to help them identify those "murky" areas that society has enabled, but to encourage and teach them about the prevalence of date rape, how to protect the women and men they know, how to identify male students who may be rapists, how to report rape, how to respond to demeaning, violent talk and behaviors toward women.

To act like young men are a "lost cause" and not worth educating means one thinks young men are so stupid they can't be enlightened, or that they already know everything.

With rape at epidemic levels in colleges, universities and the m ilitary, I would say that whatever knowledge men have is NOT enough to keep rape from being a growing scourge.

You attack a disease with everything you've got.

Educate the women AND the men.

How this frightens men I do not know, but one would think any DECENT man would have no problem fighting the epidemic of rape with everything at our disposal.

Why are classes for men such a frightening concept to some guys? I don't get it. I suppose ignorance really is bliss, but not for the victims of rape.

Sad