Schools don’t bother themselves with bullying either. I always find it odd that victims of sexual abuse and bullying are seen as being in the wrong while rapists and bullies are protected.

Very few people think that but many people do treat sexual assault as boys being boys rather than treating it as the serious crime it is. It’s known from studies that about 4-5% of males are sexual predators. Those 4-5% have numerous victims, so ignoring their behavior puts a lot of people in harms way. So while most…

No, but all boys have the capacity to become rapists if they’re not correctly taught what rape is and why consent is most important. Which is why this shit has to be better handled by school admins. Downplaying the ugliness and permissive nature of sexual assaults in schools is a failure to boys, girls, and all other…

Considering that girls in that age range are more than likely to be raped by a family member, a close family friend, or a intimate partner it’s an even more scary statistic.

When I was in Jr. High, a group of boys backed me into a corner and pulled out their dicks to shake/wipe on me. When a teacher caught ‘em, she sent us all to the principal’s office. “Boys will be boys” was pretty much the excuse the principal used to erase the fact that these little shits had done anything wrong. None…

...I wasn’t disagreeing with that? I was saying that that was an attitude admin/law enforcement/the public tend to have about sexual assault in educational settings.

She knocked out teeth??? I’m grinning at my computer screen so hard right now. That’s not easy to do.

I’m sure I already know the (depressing) answer, but why in the HELL was a girl expelled for giving a blow job while the boy receiving it was only suspended, even ignoring the fact that he forced her, and oh, yeah, filmed it, which, unless she was part of the small minority of high school students who are over 18,…

Your daughter sounds rad!

And then what happened?!

My daughter faced something less horrible but still bad in 8th grade. A boy touched her breasts and vagina in class and was saying some really inappropriate things. It had been going on for months and that was her last straw. She punched him, breaking his glasses and knocking out a few teeth.

The “boys will be boys” attitude and protection of athletes/star students plaguing our colleges? It has its root here. Couple that with the stats on the gender disparity between teachers and admin, local pressure, and general lack of resources (physical and monetary) in our school systems and you have an environment…

Imagine all the future money and above all pain for victims that could be saved if these kinds of crimes were properly investigated the first time they were committed...

With so much attention payed to sexual assault on college campuses (which is of course important), there’s been so little attention payed to high school. I’m really glad this article exists, but also appalled and saddened that it’s necessary. I wonder if the same in-school rules and protections (or lack thereof) apply…

While you are right, the problem is this

I don’t even have anything funny to say. This is happening because the law does not care about women, their safety or their comfort.

I think Canada inserted a proxy mandate for this subset of crimes. Dude wants to represent himself, fine, he can do that. But he MUST have a court officier handle the questioning of the accuser. He can do all the other stuff on his own, and he can confer with the court officer about what questions he wants posed but…

This is happening to a rich, famous, successful woman. It has been happening to her for years and she is still fighting it in court.

And/or she told herself that. Which is exactly that which I would have done. Told myself that if I didn’t engage, his tiresome game would eventually lose steam; told myself that if I blocked him, he might escalate; told myself that this was his escape valve, and that to close it might lead to increasingly dangerous…

Oh, Ashanti. They told you not to engage, didn’t they, and now he’s saying that your failure to engage was just proof that you wanted all that harassment. Fuck that guy, fuck the assholes who gave you bad advice, and here’s hoping he’s found guilty on all charges.