Comments on: How to keep yourself safer at parties http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/03/7430/how-to-keep-yourself-safer-at-parties/ A daily newsmagazine of campus and culture for Northwestern University. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: SHAPE member http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/03/7430/how-to-keep-yourself-safer-at-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-37000 SHAPE member Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:54:47 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/03/7430/how-to-keep-yourself-safer-at-parties/#comment-37000 I don't have the time to write a long response now, but I'm very disappointed with this article for a number of reasons. The point I want to focus on, though, is that most sexual assault on college campus doesn't involve date rape drugs, or getting their partner drunk. The rapist who did not receive consent from the woman he was fooling around with assumes that because he didn't slip her a ruffie, he didn't rape her. He denies it and accuses the victim of lying, or really wanting it. Most men who rape women don't realize that they have committed rape, and it is exactly because of the way rape is handled in the media, like in this article. The relevant story to college campuses isn't for how women to protect themselves, but rather how to stop date rape from the rapist's side. I don’t have the time to write a long response now, but I’m very disappointed with this article for a number of reasons.

The point I want to focus on, though, is that most sexual assault on college campus doesn’t involve date rape drugs, or getting their partner drunk. The rapist who did not receive consent from the woman he was fooling around with assumes that because he didn’t slip her a ruffie, he didn’t rape her. He denies it and accuses the victim of lying, or really wanting it. Most men who rape women don’t realize that they have committed rape, and it is exactly because of the way rape is handled in the media, like in this article.

The relevant story to college campuses isn’t for how women to protect themselves, but rather how to stop date rape from the rapist’s side.

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