Thanks to Rolling Stone, Lena Dunham and others, I’m much more worried about my son than I am my daughter.
I can equip my daughter to, largely, take care of herself. Martial
arts and firearms classes, knowing the potential consequences of drinking to excess, knowing to never take a drink unless you are absolutely confident of where it came from (stick to canned or bottled beer or wine that you’ve opened yourself), etc.
But how do I equip my son to deal with the potential for frivolious but life-destroying rape/sexual assault charges that could come at any time from any point on the compass? I mean, as someone said on another thread “Barry” from the Lena Dunham story is, years later, having his life ruined for the simple crime of having been a Republican at Oberlin.
Good questions.