with about an hour left
Mood:
chatty
Topic: News
I suddenly realized, with just an hour left, that I hadn't blogged today. I've gone since mid-December only having missed 2 days and both of them were accidental. So I have to write something, but what do I write?
Ah, yes...I remember what I wanted to write about this morning. Recently there have been an increasing number of allegations of rape by the University of Colorado's football team. One was by a female who was a kicker for the team around 2001. Others have been raped at parties thrown by the football team.
Today on MSNBC some female students at the college were interviewed about the party-based rapes. Granted that the reporters were trying to make a journalistic point, all the girls that they interviewed said that everyone knows what type of parties go on with the football players and that most of the girls that attend those parties go there to have sex. So they employed the, "they were asking for it," line. It was interesting to hear this from other girls. I thought that they would stick together against rape.
I believe that rape is the worst thing that can happen to anyone, male or female. It's a horrible and devastating act. No one deserves to be raped at all no matter what they do. It's an evil thing and rapists should be castrated. (Assuming that it's 100% sure they were the rapist)
That having been said, here's what I think about the two disjoint issues. For the football player girl, I think that she purposely put herself into a bad situation. Playing on the male football team is, to jocks, like being emasculated so they constantly have to assert their manliness. Unfortunately, one way to do that is to force someone to submit to you. This includes rape. (It's the same phenomenon that perpetuates racisms...perhaps I'll go into that one day)
So, while she definitely didn't deserve to get raped, I think that she should have known that there was risk involved. Typically coaches are also against this and only tolerate it so that they don't look like bigots. That causes the situation to be even more dangerous because they're more likely to turn the other way when something happens.
As far as the parties go, that's an entirely different situation. I think that people at a party expect that with so many people around in a "public" place that they'll be safe. However, people should know that intoxication mixed with lots of flirting can cause problems. I think the problem here is not the girls, but the "system" of the college party. Getting drunk and going off to a room is a common action for a lot of people and it tends to lead to bad things 90% of the time. However, people will always drink and do stupid things afterwards (not all people...but those that do drink) and so they should realize that the time to sleep with someone (if they like sleeping randomly - colloquially referred to as a party slut) then they should maybe do it when both parties are sober or at least not with the party atmosphere.
Again, let me reiterate that regardless of the signals one sends or the situation that they get into,
no one deserves to get raped. However, people should not be naive and expect that because no one
should get raped that no one does. Therefore they should take steps to distance themselves from such situations as much as they can.
There you go, a step away from the banality of my last few posts. Feel free to post comments...hopefully I explained things enough that you don't think I'm an insensitive bastard. I did say 2 or 3 times that rape is evil and that
no one should ever be raped under any circumstances.
Posted by Eric
at 11:17 PM EST
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