It seems to be a foreign concept to most people to empathize with female people unless maybe they're your daughters. Maybe.

Did you see this thing Dan Savage did recently? I have the usual set of problems with Dan Savage but this speech is pretty cool even if the concept is pretty obvious. Or should be. And he got the Christianists and FOX news all in a tizzy about applying any sort of critical thought to their "faith."

Also, sluts who demand contraceptives need to be put in their place and controlled.

They really need to start thinking seriously about why they believe it's wrong. Because their easily-disprovable fake stats about things like child abuse and their old testament stories aren't cutting it. They have to know it's all bullshit. That they're just making excuses.

There was a case here in California a few years ago where a bunch of college jock gangrapists challenged a teenage girl (there's a reason they like to focus on the youngest ones at the party) to a drinking game and secretly matched her shots of tequila with their shots of beer and water.

If a guy asks you for directions that you can't help him with, or offers you a stick of gum you don't want, you have to say no loudly and forcefully and kick him in the nuts when you say it. None of that mealy-mouthed no thanks or I'm not sure or not right now. You have to punch them in the larynx for them to…

Or just a garden-variety misogynist with fucked up ideas about sex. You don't have to be a psychopath for that.

And she didn't scream and kick him in the nuts so she sent the wrong signals so it's really all her fault.

Even if it already has.

I should think so. I don't see how it's legal for colleges to mandate that they should mediate rape accusations before the victim goes to the police. It's pretty transparently a grab for an opportunity to talk the victim out of pressing charges. I know it's a common university policy. And still. That's obviously what…

No it's pretty much the same thing only way more exclusive.

People keep repeating this thing about teaching boys to respect women and I mean no offense to you personally but it just doesn't sit right with me. It has a feel of the old princess-on-a-pedestal sensibility.

I agree. Another set of rolling goalposts for mothers to chase after, dictating that they should have their babies strapped to them 24/7/365 for like ten years is about as feminist as Phyllis Schlafly.

I'd be shocked to learn of a police department that wasn't discriminatory in practice.

She wants to cling to the erroneous idea that she can do something to prevent those guys from doing the same thing to her.

Well this particular example is crazy exclusive. Just because you haven't heard of a school doesn't mean the Skull and Bones set doesn't favor its alumni.

The tone of the attitude toward sexual assault is similar pretty much everywhere from what I've seen.

Oh I know. I was just noting how ironic and silly it is that we're supposed to take men in positions like the one this guy's in seriously. More seriously than anybody else even.

"What, exactly, is an all-male college giving men, aside from another bump up in a world where they are already ahead? Is that really necessary in our society?"

Yeah women are doing damn well in higher education but they're still not getting the same level of employment, the networking for which starts in college. There's a reason the schools with the most prestige are still all-male. I know it's a private school and they have a constitutional right and etcetera, but it does…