Reply #25: the boys were rapists. [View All]

[jdj]

and they knew they were.

I just wish someone had warned me, somehow, about college. Why can't we tell young women the truth about this stuff. Maybe they know now, I didn't. I came from a religious background, never drank or had alcohol in the house at all. I remember the first time I got drunk at college and "it" happened, I was drinking with friends. This one guy kept handing me beers. He would open one and hand it to me just as I finished the last one. I was unbelievably naive. I remember actually thinking "wow, college boys sure have good manners". I passed out or blacked out, and when I came too, well you know the rest. Same old song and dance. I can't believe I was sent into that enviroment as young and stupid and naive as I was. I think many girls now are more astute. At least I hope so. I know if I had a teenage daughter, I would really really try to get her not to go off and live in a dorm. I would be the parent teens love to hate.

And I do believe that these men knew what they did was wrong and they will pay for it, though maybe not in this life.

What we don't talk about is that there is tacit permission given to these young men to do this. Somewhere there is a green light given. There were some ancient cultures where the penalty for rape was death. We don't live in that kind of culture.