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In reply to the discussion: The truth about what young men knew about rape years ago. [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)9. I got the talk to be careful at parties
and not drink too much because someone might take advantage of me. My dad said it was wrong but he knew it happened and didn't want me to be a victim.
If you had to be taught it was wrong to do it, then there was also an acknowledgement that it was happening. Obviously not everyone is getting the message, and we learned in this past election that there are people who consider some rape to not be legitimate, or forcible, or think some rape is "gray rape" or whatever. Those men could have used a class or lesson or something to teach them that rape is rape.
It's great that you got that lesson but that doesn't mean that young men in general knew that years ago, only that you did.
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The many dismissive posts about rape even here on DU indicate that not all men got the message.
yardwork
Nov 2012
#1
One thing about group psychology, sociopathy, and rape that needs to be considered.
Springslips
Nov 2012
#55
i am a mother. i had the talk. doesnt have to come from the father, though that is good stuff.
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#34
My daughter and I have already been educating my 11yo grandson. Thanks MM. nt
Mnemosyne
Nov 2012
#18
If he ever harms a woman, his mother will explode and he might not survive it! nt
Mnemosyne
Nov 2012
#58
both my boys have had that "talk" also. well before they got into a position of making their own way
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#29
What an ugly, uncalled-for reply. Perhaps you should avail yourself of the *ignore* feature,
apocalypsehow
Nov 2012
#69
as you said, most men and boys know. but I was thinking about that cretin rivard, whose father
niyad
Nov 2012
#49
Remember that group of popular high school boys some years ago who named themselves the
tblue37
Nov 2012
#70
In any situation in which there is an imbalance in power, the greater the imbalance, the greater the
patrice
Nov 2012
#76
Considering the statistics on rape... maybe not most but many boys did and do rape.
KittyWampus
Nov 2012
#77