“Rape [is] rare in 47 percent of the societies studied and common in 18 percent of them. … In the more rape-prone societies there [is] greater sexual segregation, male social dominance, interpersonal violence, and the subordination of women” p4
“… in the United States, which is in all likelihood one of the most rape-prone societies in the world.” p9
“… the attitudes, language, behavior, and literacy levels of these [i.e., American] fraternity members are identical to those of young, underprivileged criminals” p23
“According to a recent study of adolescents, aged fourteen to eighteen, ‘more than half the boys and nearly half the girls thought that it was okay for a male to force (that is, rape) a female if he was sexually aroused by her'” p54
What? What? Parents, teachers, are you fucking clueless? Or just incompetent?
“… compassion for women implies castration” p63
And they say men are the rational ones.
And re “working a ‘yes’ out” … it’s not that women are so weak-willed; it’s that men have the patriarchy behind them because/so they speak with such authority. So ‘You know you want it’ is as convincing as ‘You need to replace the exhaust system’.
And on that note, ‘You know you want it’ suggests that they think consent is important, while at the same time, using alcohol, drugs, and intimidation suggests that they think consent isn’t important.
Again, they say men are the rational ones.
“Only once in these discussions with fraternity brothers, which spanned a two-year period, did any group of brothers mention love in connection with sex.” p143
Women, take note.
“The responsibility always belongs to the woman, never to the brothers [referring to things like ‘she brought it on herself, by the way she was dressed or acting…’] … Such attitudes display an infantile, concrete perception of responsibility [and I’d add one inconsistent with the view of break and enter and theft and vandalism, none of which become suddenly acceptable if someone leaves their door unlocked] … These men are not reflective; they are primarily reactive …” p145
“The price female students pay for their passive acceptance of the inhumanity of casualization [of sex] is an even greater sense of low self-esteem. … [W]hat women students think of as reckless freedom is in reality acceptance of t… gender inequality …” p218
“… she was surprised at the amount of time girls devoted to ‘primping’ starting at 6pm on a Friday night to leave around 10:30pm for a fraternity party” p204
Seriously? How shallow and superficial do you have to be to spend so much time on your appearance?
“Primping four hours before going to a party is flight from authenticity in the expenditure of capital to sell the self through the body.” p218
Okay, it’s that too.
“Verbal consent is neither prudish nor puritanical. it can be highly erotic.” p233
Yes. Yes.
