Discussion for article #231203
Please - how many times does this point have to be made - this is a topic that deserves accuracy!
she did not say āI was nearly raped in collegeā or āSomeone tried to rape me in collegeā
That makes it sound like it happened on a college campus - and was a part of the college environment.
The point she was making was that she had this horrible experience when she was about 20-21 years old - when she was participating in an summer internship in labor relations at an automobile plant in Warren, Ohio. - during the summer break between her junior and senior year of college - it was a non-college campus environment experience -
Was this during the era of her life when she was a college student- yes ā¦ but did it have anything to do with her actually being a college student? no
Her story -
She was participating in an summer internship in labor relations at an automobile plant in Warren, Ohio. She went to shul. One family invited her over for Shabbat dinner. They also invited a young man. He was nice enough. This ānice Jewish guyā then invited her for dinner. A few days later, she went to his apartment. And thatās where it happened. He tried to rape her. She managed to get out after a struggle, but the emotional scarring was deep.
There are genuine problems on college campuses - and there are far far too many stories of college campus sexual assaults that have been ignored - the dialog deserves genuine & accurate discussion - but this is not a ācollegeā story -
So it wasnāt a ālegitmate rapeā attempt?
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"There are genuine problems on college campuses - and there are far far too many stories of college campus sexual assaults that have been ignored - the dialog deserves genuine & accurate discussion - but this is not a ācollegeā story "-
1 in 5? Maybe the true number is 1 in 6, or 1 in 3, or 1 in 10. We just donāt know. Whatever the true number itās too damned many. Rapists or rapists manqueā need to play a price if their socialization did not include a prohibition against forcing sex on a woman. And itās not āblaming the victimā to ask women to use a little common sense and at least try to avoid circumstances that make them more vulnerable. Some judicial prosecutions of these rapists might help, too.
Decades ago when I was in college we would hear that rape was epidemic on campus. Yes, sir, why a woman could hardly walk to the student union without being assaulted. Oh yes, and everyone had a friend of a friend on some other campus and yep, they had an epidemic of rape there, too. Thatās not to say no women were assaulted. Itās just to point out the part that urban legend plays in making a bad situation worse.
And please donāt tell me I donāt āget itā. Iāve known several women over my life who were raped. That includes a cousin who was raped at age 11 and one who was held prisoner in her own apartment by a serial rapist on parole for other rapes.
And once again a reminder that the RS story wasnāt about the rape, it was about the response of the authorities to it. Whether collage administration, which the RS story focused on, or the replay of many police departmentsā response to women reported actual or attempted sexual assault, we have got a long way to go before rape investigation is treated with the due respect and integrity called for.
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Please - Randi Weingartenās story clearly presents an assault and obviously an attempted rape. Have absolutely no issue with that. Have no issue with her lending her personal experience of her youth to the point that she was making .