DATE RAPE

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"Everyone wants to know what's happening in the world, but

not everyone has the time or patience to sit down and read
through a bunch of news articles."
In this podcast there are a few college students who recaps
the most undebated stories from around the globe every
month and if you want to know the real horrors of life after
school this is the podcast for you.I made the decision to listen
to this podcast due to the recent stats of rape happening
around world the subject would be a burning issue at colleges
and in the media-and that some critics in comment sections
observed by me would say that even by using the label "date
rape" the speaker was lessening the crime and blaming the
victim."Rape is rape," the staunch feminists insist. They make
no distinction between pathological criminals
leaping from behind bushes and college students who find
themselves in situations where sex goes wrong on a
date.Date rape is a dreadful, disturbing crime. But I believe
that if we place the solution in the hands of extremists with a
rigid political agenda tailored to blame men as the historic
victimizers of women, we could end up souring the
relationships between a whole generation of our young
people.Before we go any further here, what exactly is going
on? Did an epidemic of date rape suddenly break out
across the country? Some social observers say date rapes
have always been under reported and we're finally
hearing the bad news.Whereas the speaker of the Podcast ,
says the only epidemic is of media coverage-that date-rape
surveys are seriously flawed and that rape is being redefined
to include behavior that isn't rape at all. The logic which I
used makes me beileve that more young women are now
willing to come forward and say they were raped, and that
date rape, a relatively new designation, catches in its net
behavior that was never so identified in years past.In my
novel a character says, "One rape is too many." That's pretty
much how I feel about debating the
numbers. The real issue is how to eliminate the crimes. I think
one reason young men persist when they don't have consent
is that in these sexually liberated times some simply refuse to
hear the word "no." They say to themselves: "What's the big
deal? She's not a virgin anyway." And
Some have been so indulged in their lives that they're not
accustomed to hearing any kind of "no."But what of young
women? Don't they bear any responsibility? This podcast
indicated that in nearly half the alleged campus date rapes,
the woman had been drinking. If you raise that issue,
however, many activists regard it as blaming the
victim.Yet,there was a comment in comment’s section that
"Every woman must be prudent and cautious about where
she goes and with whom. The only solution to date rape is
female self-awareness and self-control. A woman's number
one line of defense against rape is herself.

"Well, I strongly believe we should include men in that line of

defence. To involve women and men, schools and colleges
need to do what they are in business to do: educate. You
need a true dialogue between the sexes on campus. You
need discussion of the nature of consent. You need to raise
the question of drinking and self- control. You need to do this
with all students.I don't see how we can succeed with that
educational process if you begin with the view that "rape is
rape," pure and simple- that men are historic victimizers and
women always their victims. It seems to me the goal
should be changed, not blame. How are you going to get any
young man to change his thinking, to raise his
consciousness, if your starting point is to equate him with a
stranger wielding a knife? Inevitably, the result
there will be resentment and anger on both sides, and this
comes at a very impressionable time in the lives of young
men and women. I would like to tile this as Rape - A Two Way
Problem Involving Men & Women