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In reply to the discussion: No, I will not feel gender guilt [View all]cherish44
(2,566 posts)But education should be early and often about respecting women as human beings. There is often a time in lots of men's lives, especially when they are young, that they do go through a women as "bitches" and "hos" type of thing (especially when they're in a group of other young males). Most grow out of it. I remember going to a screening of the movie "The Accused" in college. All college aged kids there. A group of guys started cheering during that disturbing rape scene. (Yeah they were kicked out). But it left me and several other of my friends (even some of my guy friends who were there) VERY upset and pissed off. These weren't uneducated yokels, these were COLLEGE students. And when I was in college there were enough incidents of campus rape that there were guys who would volunteer to escort any female who needed to go somewhere on campus after dark...you know walking back to your dorm at night from the library, that type of thing. But the fact that this was necessary is scary and hopefully educating boys and young men at an early age about respecting women will go a long way.