ML/NJ
That’s an outside criminal assailant, not a fellow student.
After my freshman year I took a small survey of my high school friends, and half of us had indeed been victims of sexual assault or attempted rape by fellow students. No completed rapes, thank God. When it happened to me I was stone cold sober and miles from a party - my friends had likewise been sober. I think only one of us reported it.
The problem as I see it, was co-ed dorms, aggressive hormonally-charged young men, and young women not taught to recognize and avoid dangerous situations.
Speaking of which, when the criminal is an outsider, again students aren’t taught sufficient caution - they leave doors unlocked, live in apartments with unbarred windows in bad neighborhoods, travel unescorted - and are taught to feel guilty if their instinctive alarms go off - they are judging by appearances or even...profiling.
The perp is a black local, not student and is a career criminal. Rape is rape but we're not talking about a drunken frat boy here.
gee, if the victim is white I wonder if there will be protests and vigils and a visit from Sharpton
I doubt anyone is saying to pretend it doesn’t happen. It seems to me that the point is a tendency to overstate the frequency. And the argument that women are not calling help lines means that the problem is worse that previously thought simply does not hold water.