Instead, as Melissa points out, what we get is more bullshit and excuses.

Melissa’s put up another post about this, in response to another Mail article (from Peter Hitchens, who seems to be even less delightful than his brother Christopher):

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/part-ii-geez-when-will-women-stop.html

The amount of misogyny in the article is so thick that it might be triggering to some.

A particularly bad quote:

Of course she is culpable [for being raped while drunk], just as she would be culpable if she crashed a car and injured someone while drunk, or stepped out into the traffic while drunk and was run over.

Getting drunk is not something that happens to you. It is something you do.

… of which a Shakesville commentator called pennylane said “not only is he comparing the victim of a crime (rape) to the perpetrator of a crime (drunk driving), it appears the analogy goes so far as to imply that the rapist is the one who has innocently stumbled into the path of the drunken woman, and is unable to get out of her way before he rapes her.” possibly amounts to the worst rape apologism I’ve ever seen.

One minor consolation: the women that lied to the girl to get her to admit to a party, I made her cry with my words when I accused her of re-victimizing the girl and sending the message to other women that if they are attacked they have noone to turn to.

I’m still seeing red about the situation if you can’t tell.

Damn straight you should be.

Sorry, unlike Cara, I don’t have anything to say that’s actually helpful. But I can at least throw some agreement your way.

You can also threaten them with the Clery Act, since I’m positive that if they’re reporting a 0% statistic they’re not following it, and that can get them into a whole shitload of legal trouble. I hear that often works, and I’m pretty positive that SAFER has info on that too.

I completely agree, however, there’s a reason my alma mater has a 0% rape statistic and It’s not cause of the upstanding men. I believe they pressure the SAAFE house director to discourage reporting and blatanly tell women that if they are underage, drinking and get assaulted they will be arrested for drinking….but please report your assault. This girl was promised by a higher up in the University’s administration that nothing would happen to the sorority if she reported what happened, she did and two days later the sorority was suspended for having an unregistered party…and the girl was told it was her job to handle her assault situation, without help from the SAAFE office or administration. I’m still seeing red about the situation if you can’t tell.