Sunday, October 13, 2013

'Rapebait' e-mail reveals dark side of frat culture

      http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/opinion/foubert-fraternities-rape/index.html?hpt=us_mid
“You can expect well-meaning commentators and bloggers to wonder how such a horrible man could have done such a thing, much less have gotten into a good college.” After reading through this and even seeing the title I was way shocked about fraternity’s secrets. It’s shocking to me that after getting into a nice college those guys would be sending out emails on how to lure your rapebait. I would have no clue about this if I it weren’t for this article so clearly our public is a little uninformed about fraternity’s. Although when I am thinking about college big parties, drinking, and drugs comes to mind. Let’s not try to act dumb we all think that along with the education part, but my point is I can see where this could’ve turned into something so terrible.
“What was particularly remarkable about our study is that we found that it was the fraternity experience that led men to be more likely to rape.” I’m curious as to why this is happening, why does the fraternity experience led men to this? It makes you think if they are pushing them to think a certain way about women, like women deserve to be raped or that it isn’t a big deal. They could’ve taken a step to stop it because I’m sure the campus knew about these cases, how could you not? This is why I think that they may not think highly of women and men are superior. This definitely isn’t a good way to start off your life, leading them into this direction could cause them to continue with their habits and even abuse women even more.
“Rarely does a college discuss sexual assault with its students for more than 60 minutes in an entire college career, if they do at all.” This to me shows the lack of prevention for this situation. In every college, I feel they should bring it up and make sure every student is aware and even give support to women. Let them know they can come to anyone about the situation and to never feel like they deserved it so they shouldn’t tell anyone. I feel that they should also set up some discipline for the men that are raping females. The fact that they won’t take time  out of their day to make things get better, that have been shown in studies to help with the situation is crazy.  On the other hand women should be more aware of the possibility of being raped if she goes alone and has too much to drink and nobody is there to watch out for her. All in all everybody needs to just be smarter about things and take the actions needed to stop this.

                

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