Reply #84: If you are female, rape is a "fact of life" [View All]

[SoCalDem]

College in the late 60's was not all "free" love.. Lots of it was "stolen"..

There was not "polite term" for it.. Today we have "Date rape".. Back then we just had.. "Boy, was I stupid to get so drunk"..and then we all just went to class.

Times are different now, and even though I had only sons, I told them in no uncertain terms that NO MEANS NO..

They came into their teens knowing that I was sexually abused as a child, and they saw the meltdown I had over it as I came to terms with my life, so I think they have a realistic sense that "things that happen to a young person affect them for their whole life".