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I am sad that my college is among those who reported this figure.
Most hetrosexual men will push themselves on to women they are attracted to and most white folks have prejudice against black/non-white folks.
I hate it when men and white people act like this isn’t the way it is. They know it is and I don’t know why they think the people this crap is being done to will believe it isn’t being done to them if they deny it.
A survey like this is useless without specifics. One reason freshmen women may feel more victimized is that their parents and feminists teach them to be hypersensitive about anything that might be in any way sexual. After a little time out in the big bad world they figure out that being inadvertently bumped in crowded situations is not sexual assault, and a guy showing interest in them is not a prelude to rape.
Most lazy generalizations are horseshit.
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That is a unique theory. Usually the accusation is that college is a hotbed of feminist and radical thought which leads women to accept such worldviews. You seem to be suggesting that the women come in with the victimization world view from their parents and high school feminists, and get cured of it during their time at college.
I suppose something like that is necessary because the evidence here does not fit with the increasing radicalization hypothesis. It does fit with the fact that freshmen are more vulnerable than upper classmen, and so more likely to be victimized. But if one wants to reject the obvious explanation then I suppose something like your unconventional explanation would be necessary.
You overlook the fact that feminism is now many generations old; it is no longer something a young woman “discovers” in college, it’s something she learns at her mother’s knee. But I can understand how radical feminists would like an " increasing radicalization hypothesis"; it inflates their own sense of self-importance.
This is not news to any woman that went to college.
Nor to any woman that lives in society with males.
It’s just not news.
Your comment is ridiculous.
Most men will say they are better than average drivers too.
I understand the reason behind that claim better.
I’m not surprised, though disheartened, by this report. I was an undergrad more than 40 years ago, and I can still remember the pressure men put on each other to be sexual, and the clumsy and offensive ways we went about it. You’d think we’d learn.