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NPR: Myths That Make It Hard To Stop Campus Rape

katoleary:zurik:

One in sixteen men admitting to rape, even bragging about it? A+.

Some of the comments are pretty A+ too.

When even the NPR crowd doesn’t get it, you know how dire the situation is.

I find it somewhat comforting that most of the really horrific comments are coming from the same handful of commenters who seem hell-bent on pushing this notion that if a girl gets too drunk to consent, that she is equally culpable (or culpable at all) when a guy decides to have sex with her without her consent, because everyone knows boys can’t control themselves when it comes to sex. And I think it’s really interesting that this argument comes exclusively from men: you really think other men are so lacking in impulse control that they can’t resist ~~having sex with~~ raping an unconscious girl in their presence? Because me personally? I have much more faith in men.

I am sort of disturbed by the fact that many of these men seem to be repeatedly rationalizing this scenario. Because they seem to think it’s perfectly natural to fuck someone who is unconscious, and because they seem to be very upset that anyone would imply that this behavior is wrong and keep trying to justify it to anyone who strays into the comments section, makes you wonder how many of these men have maybe engaged in this behavior themselves? Considering that 1 in 16 men have…

Anyhow.

I wonder if the men who think a drunk girl takes some blame for being raped would think the same thing if a dude did the same to them when they passed out? I bet the attitude would change significantly then.

Source: zurik