Sorry, but I can't help myself. Where's that dead horse?
In the midst of this Stanford rape story, I saw an article about campus rapes. (Forgive me but I didn't save the link and I don't remember what site it was on.) It seems that claims have been made that 1 in 5 women on college campuses have been raped. The article cited a study that debunked that claim and found that it's actually more like 1 in 50. Now, they were quick to point out that that's still too often, that just one rape is too many.
However, I'm even wondering about the 1 in 50. Maybe it's because I never went to college, I've never been drunk, and I've never raped anyone, but even that still sounds high. I mean, the typical university has something like 10,000 students? And over half of those are women? So, at any given moment, there are over 100 rape victims on the average campus and we're not doing anything about it?
It makes me wonder if instead of rape on our college campuses, we don't have a plague of regret. I mean, how unreasonable is it to think Girl gets WAY too drunk and loses inhibition, goes wherever she's led by Boy, wakes up in his dorm room the next morning not remembering how she got there or what she did, has to do the walk of shame, and utterly regrets getting so drunk?
I can certainly believe that 1 in 5 college women have experienced that feeling. But does that qualify as rape?
Again, I come back to my point of preserving the English language. If there's a blur happening between the words "rape" and "regret," do me a favor and let's stop it before it gets out of control.
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