I want to come at the Stanford rape story from a different angle. I wrote about it here but I also made a provocative post about it on my facebook wall. That started a conversation with a female friend who called me out on poor timing. A few days later, I also had a male friend do the same thing privately. What I found ironic is the number of women who privately applauded me.
In case you're in the dark, I took the opportunity to address the problems with rampant alcohol consumption on college campuses. Without excusing the rapist, I was pointing out that if the woman wasn't drunk to the point of passing out or if she had a sober chaperone, the incident wouldn't have happened.
The point here is that, inappropriate timing or not, nobody told me I was wrong. So why is booze such a big deal in our centers of higher learning? I'm not asking that rhetorically. I didn't go to college and I don't drink... I never have and at this stage in my life, it's likely I never will. So I honestly can't answer the question myself.
Also, it's apparent sex plays a large role in the lives of college students. That I can verify from some of the conversations I hear from my collegiate Uber passengers. Sometimes, I feel I'm invisible when I hear how openly they talk about it with each other... guys and girls.
All of this leads me to wonder about the nature of these institutions these days. Are our colleges and universities really about education or have they simply become the most expensive brothels in history? Wouldn't it be cheaper and safer to just let kids lay around and get drunk at home for four years?
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