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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You can teach men not to feel entitled to others’ bodies and it will still happen. We teach men they shouldn’t rob people at knife-point, and violent robberies still happen. Some people are predators who deliberately use violence or coercion to take what they want. That’s not going to change with educational messaging.
Having said that, there’s clearly someting pretty messed up with elite men’s sport culture and its norms around entitlement and sexual aggression. If anything good comes of this, it will be that it serves as a sobering lesson to younger hockey players that this kind of predatory pursuit of drunken women can ruin lives.
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I disagree.
The failure here is that there was a group of men who decided to commit sexual assault (allegedly). Educational messaging should tell at least one of those in the group to intervene and stop things before it became a criminal act. In my mind, this is abhorrent not because a single individual decided to rape someone, but because a group of men engaged in the act and not one of them said "hey, maybe this is a bad idea."
Messaging is not only about personal responsibility, but intervening when you see something wrong. More education WILL reduce things like this. The solitary predators may never go away, but if everyone is watching out for this #### wherever they are, those predators will lose opportunities to commit these crimes.