Title 9

The school recently required the Greek community to attend a lecture with the intent to help prevent rape on campus. Honestly, I went into this thinking it'd be very straight forward but it was actually pretty thought provoking. For example, it turns out that legally no one is held accountable for the crimes committed against them under the influence, however they are accountable for all their own actions when they are the ones under the influence. On paper this makes perfect sense as the basis for a law, however it doesn't account for many grey areas within the serious issue of rape. In the hypothetical situation the man was being pressed with rape charges when he was very drunk himself, and the girl had said "i'm ready" although she was drunk as well. I in no way think it was the girl's sole fault and she should have been expected to not get drunk, however I do not believe it is fair for the man to be convicted of rape in the situation necessarily either. This class to me is about equality, and statistically women are the victims of rape far more than men however there are the occasions that the laws are particularly biased towards men when rape is involved. Overall the strictness of the laws and these biases probably help do more good by putting true rapists behind bars but the topic of some people being lawfully convicted is very interesting to me and would be curious to discuss it in class.