On rape and men (Oh yes, I'm going there)

[cereta]

Yes, we've hit one of those times. Something has been building, and it has to come out.

Comments

[ivorychopsticks]

I went to college at a conservative religious university. There had been a couple of sexual assaults off campus, so the university paper published the periodic "here's how to avoid getting raped" guidelines for women (and we've all seen them)-- call a male friend to walk with you if you have to be out after dark, never walk alone in the garden walk parts of campus, travel in groups of three or more, if a man is walking behind you, walk aggressively and cross the street to put a safe distance between you. All that practical advice we have been told over and over

[rosefox]

That's absolutely brilliant.

[vvalkyri]

wow. This is an interesting thought experiment.

[moral_vacuum]

It shouldn't be a thought experiment, it should on the curriculum!

(especially as this is similar to advice I was given a few years back about making women feel safer)

[jesstherobot]

Wow. This is stunning. I'm pretty sure the guide they give to freshman at my school has a similar "women, here's how to avoid getting raped" bit -- I'm quite tempted to draw up the counter-flyer and plaster it around during orientation in the fall.

[kathrynt]

Please, please, please do.

[sophia_helix]

Oh, and how interesting! And what a creepy/perfect icon to go with your comment, yeesh.

[cereta]

Oh, that's interesting. I might come back to this idea later.

[sanj]

That's a really, really smart form of protest.

[jacquez]

For some reason, this reminds me of a news story I read about how at some university, there was a serial rapist at work, and so there was this organized thing where male students would walk female students home.

And some of the male students would then expect sex in return for having prevented the women from being raped. Hi, what?

[insane_duckfish]

Now I'm the one who wants to say "This is a joke, right?" Jesus christ, that's unbelievable.

[jacquez]

I know! I was like "....oh dude, SERIOUSLY?" of course I did not delicious the article, because I'm a genius like that.

[penguineggs]

It may be based (the trouble is, because of universals of horrible behaviour in this field, it may not be based) on the experiences my contemporaries suffered at Yorkshire universities during the late '70s/early 1980s when

[ext_186301]

GAHH.

[nancylebov]

The "How Not to Be Mistaken for a Rapist" recommends much less restriction of behavior than a lot of women routinely engage in.

[ext_186301]

Wow, that's just perfect, isn't it? Whenever someone tries to turn the conversation to, "Men, stop raping women" (or just, "men, stop being creepy"), men FLIP OUT. How dare women make assumptions! How dare they address this to them! They are totally good people!!

But I hadn't seen such a perfect example before.