like we live in a world where we are video game avatars spending our days just dodging the rapes that happen to fly our way.

We need to recognize that the reason these schools are on the the list is not because sexual assault is a greater problem in their student body than at other schools, but because their students and professors are more out spoken advocates.

Another commenter pointed out that as the area is mostly Muslim, calling them brides may be a conscious decision to help the girls avoid rejection by the community in the chance that they are recovered. A lot of communities still shun women who have sex before marriage, even if it is rape. If this is the reasoning…

And now I want to cry. This is just so incredibly awful. I don't really now how to process this. I'm going through something like:

This.

Why are these girls being referred to as sold off as "wives" instead of sold off as "sex slaves"?

much solution. so analysis.

I didn't say that I thought colleges shouldn't require the option of confronting an accuser, just stated the fact that many colleges provide less due process than actual criminal proceedings, which requires less participation by the victim. Never opined whether I thought that was good or bad, just that it's true, and…

I don't think this PSA is targeting hardcore misogynistic, abusive men though (not that they don't need to be targeted and held responsible for their actions, they absolutely do). I think it's targeting the regular dude who may not understand exactly what consent is. If he hears, "If she can't consent, it's rape." and…

Yeah, I gave them a pass on the "wives, sisters, daughters" thing because they're trying to be persuasive and inspire an emotional response. But yeah, ideally people realize that women deserve to not get assaulted because they're human beings, not because they might be important to another male person somewhere. On…

Hear hear, we have this debate monthly and it is so tiresome and predictable. The same exact comments and responses are given each time;

Of course you have a different worldview than women. Of course. They live in a different world than you do so to argue these points with women is inane. I do not try to talk to the experience of minorities or argue with them when they say racism still exists (but I don't experience it!!!), because that would be crazy…

You are doing some fucking insane mental gymnastics to blame women for a bunch of guys being violent douchebags.

I just dismissed like four people all at once. I can't always tell trolls from non-trolls, but I don't want to engage with people who honestly can't see the connection between this story and male entitlement.

Marget Atwood once recalled that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."

Replying to bump this up.

hey everyone please don't forget not to feed the trolls, LOVE YA, BYE

Why are we calling what they encourage "rapey behavior" and not "rape"? "Rapey behavior" seems minimizing/sing-songily abstract/less criminal. They are vocally advocating RAPE. They are encouraging and breeding rapists. A spade = a spade, please.

AU is doing alumni fundraising right now. Wonder how that's going.

"Hi, graduates! Were you raped or assaulted at AU? Please send us $20 so we can continue to do nothing about that sort of thing."

Future CEOs all of them.. This is how Corporate America Scum bags are bred! Looking forward to being disrespected by you in the future, as nothing will happen to you boys except moving on...