What young men still don't get about rape

builtbro · 2012-09-03T17:02:48+00:00

Asking men -- who after all are 99% of the rapists -- to role play as if they have been raped by a woman is very unlikely to work. However, my colleagues in the psychology department tell me that men, especially young men and those who are not particularly athletic, are very sensitive to the notion that they may be raped by another man.

Role playing in which a man is cornered by someone who pretends to be, say, a football coach is likely to evoke in them what women feel when they are cornered.

Boys are animals, boys don't understand reason. So let's create an educational curriculum where boys are required to enact role-playing scenarios that evoke the stress and fear felt by a rape victim. And then we tell them that this is being done to them because they're all potential rapists, and that they should feel individually and collectively guilty of any rape that's ever been committed.

What this article proposes is wholesale psychological abuse. Do the professor's "colleagues in the psychology department" recognize this?

mayonesa · 2012-09-03T16:01:32+00:00

This article blows my mind. They're blaming rape entirely on men.

SpanishGuy · 2012-09-03T17:51:35+00:00

Asking men -- who after all are 99% of the rapists [...]

Nice try.

That's not true, but even if it were, that old trick is designed to be confused with "99% of men are rapists" -which is a completely different statement-.

OK; let's push further. Due to the lack of distribution figures, these assertions are as true as the quote above:

All U.S. presidents have been men, who after all are 99% of the rapists.
443 members of the U.S. Congress are men, who after all are 99% of the rapists.
All the dads in this world are men, who after all are 99% of the rapists.

...and so on. Sounds heavy? Well, that's what Amitai Etzioni said in CNN.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-09-03T17:20:20+00:00

It's a very worrying idea that there is an experience that can't be understood rationally but only through initiation from previous converts. Religion and crime are a bad mix.

CptSeaCow · 2012-09-04T06:20:14+00:00

"Apparently Jo Bob did not read the part where it says 99% of rapists are men. Maybe if he was raped in prison he would be thinking a different tune." There is almost no female on male rape, fool!... and folks... this is what we are up against. Pure unfiltered stupidity. Oh I forgot criminals were sentenced to life in prison, as well as to be raped. These comments are a cesspool of stupidity.

DavidByron · 2012-09-03T21:07:18+00:00

They lie and say that rape is 99% of men (alluding to some police crime statistics). What that means is that police are about 100 times more likely to pay attention to a woman raped than a man.

Title	What young men still don't get about rape
Author	mayonesa
Upvotes	6
Comments	25
Date	September 3, 2012 4:01 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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