TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Recent incidents ignite sexual assault discussions.
Recently at Oswego State, a male student headed to the bar on Thursday night with his friends. There, he saw the female teacher assistant for one of the courses he was taking and began to have a friendly conversation with her.
During this time he was belligerently drunk. After spending time talking with his TA, he left for a calzone, only to be followed by the TA and her friend.
“Maybe I was too drunk to tell them where I live,” he said. “Then it became very apparent that she wanted to have sex with me. Her friend was hinting that we were going to have sex, kind of like a wing woman. So we were doing a tour of the house, so she was asking me to take off my clothes, to show off. Her friend showed me the bed where I was going to sleep. Her friend made the bed and I got in it, and then my TA came to the bed and got in it.”
The night left a bad taste in the victim’s mouth. When he woke up, he got his clothes on and she drove him home.
“I could taste cigarettes in my mouth for the rest of the day,” the victim said. He did not attend the following class and slumped in bed for some five days.
I wonder if the university would entertain his complaint, or send him packing in a shameful sexist double standard. Note that this story opens with a male victim, but goes on to talk about self-defense classes for women.