Young men need to evolve beyond animals . . . . Wow.

ManYunSoo · 2014-10-08T18:49:05+00:00

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Ultramegasaurus · 2014-10-08T18:58:09+00:00

Women need to stop rewarding men for acting like animals :')

DeaD_bAU5 · 2014-10-08T19:05:30+00:00

Huff post is a complete rag.

from lies , to stealing intellectual property, to horseshit like this.

It shouldn't even be called a news site.

MattClark0995 · 2014-10-08T20:07:21+00:00

Misandry no real tho...Feminists keep telling me this so it must be true.

MRB2012 · 2014-10-09T06:05:17+00:00

And yet, as another UVA co-ed goes missing, the conversation becomes singularly focused on examining an alleged serial rapist and killer. The media ignores that Morgan Harrington's abduction is also related to Yeardley's murder,

No, they weren't. There's no evidence the two murderers or victims had ever even met.

Instead, the vacuum is filled by voices like conservative columnist Camille Paglia, who chalked up Morgan's abduction to the constant nearness of savage nature -- e.g. men (at least some of them) are animals unable to control themselves.

That's kind of true.

And so, if college women can simply take all the responsibility and follow some basic instructions on how to avoid these evil men, then we can keep college women safe. Men can't help themselves, after all.

Can't or won't. Criminals don't care much for the rules, that's why they're criminals.

For every Jesse Matthews, there are innumerable college men neatly clad in J. Crew or American Eagle who have murdered, gang raped or incapacitated their classmates with a date rape drug -- to say nothing of the bystanders who captured the act on video just for kicks!

Even if we accept that 1 in 4 college women will be raped before graduating (it's a lie, but still), that does not mean 1 in 4 men are raping. It means a small number of men are committing a lot of rapes. Crime isn't something ordinary people just do one day. It's something criminals make a habit out of.

While there may be differences in degree of violence, there is also a commonality: The perpetrators are able to dehumanize -- sexualize and objectify -- the victim. She is no longer a classmate, a friend, that sweet-as-apple-pie girl he knows from American Lit class. She has been transformed into prey.

To the criminal mind she was never anything more.

Let's look at how and why our young men are able to make that dehumanizing transformation, and work to fix it.

Because some people are messed up.

I give enough credit to the male gender

"Male" is a sex.

to believe that, with awareness -- and guidance from us, their parents -- our young men are capable of not only being evolved beyond animals, but also of becoming good men and defenders of college women.

And plantation owners thought they were helping their slaves.

Most of us believe that our son, our friend, our neighbor could never do such things, so it must be somebody else's problem.

Most men are not rapists.

There's no way he could have learned that behavior given how we conduct things in our home, our community. What you're missing is that our young men are awash in entertainment media. Our teens consume, on average, 7.5 hours per day of television, movies, video games, music and so on.

So what?

Violence against college women has a symbiotic relationship with our media and popular culture.

Our culture considers violence against women to be even more heinous than violence against men. Some people just don't care.

If we want to move towards progress and change, we must start with awareness. We can warn our college women to be careful, and, as parents, we can worry sick as we send them off to school; but until we address the issue of violence against women directly with our boys and young men, we will never see change.

The rate of sexual assault has been falling for the past 30 years. We're already seeing change.

It's not enough to not be a perpetrator, our young men need to be part of the solution -- to stop and call out violence against college women when they witness it.

No, that's what the cops are for.

kchrist27 · 2014-10-09T15:15:56+00:00

comment on article posted here:

The singular point of view and bias in this article frankly shreds any claim to journalistic integrity by the Author. The core argument has a fatal fallacy; Claiming that the driving force behind the terrible and violent events the article begins with is an exclusively male culture of objectification is completely detached from reality. The fact is, human beings, men AND women, sexually objectify each other. Is this a positive force in our society? No; but it is absolutely not a gender issue, and attempting to make it one detracts from any meaningful discussion of how we can improve our culture. To aid in my point, I give with the lyrics of one of the most prominent current female recording artists, Nikki Minaj:

This dude named Michael used to ride motorcycles Dick bigger than a tower, I ain't talking about Eiffel's Real country ass nigga, let me play with his rifle Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil Now that bang bang bang, I let him hit it 'cause he slang Cocaine He toss my salad like his name Romaine And when we done, I make him buy me Balmain

...tell me again how a culture of objectification is a male only issue? oh right, that would actually be fighting for equality, not fighting for female dominance. Welcome to 3rd gen feminism; where facts don't matter, and equality is a word used as a thin veil for a special interest group aimed solely at garnering power and promoting their own interests at the expense of others.

rg57 · 2014-10-18T18:46:50+00:00

People need to recognize that humans, homo sapiens, are animals.

Biology. It's a thing.

Title	Young men need to evolve beyond animals . . . . Wow.
Author	PierceHarlan
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Date	October 8, 2014 6:33 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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