How Our "Rape Culture" Came About

Parents can still alcohol-train their children at home, regardless of the 21 age rule.

Most states allow exceptions if it's private property, not a place where alcohol is sold and there's parental consent:

http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002591

Please don't forget the drug and marijuana culture that turns our kids into dullards. Nothing matters when you fare baked.

We are turning into a county of youthful zombies.

"Were there incidents of "severe trauma?" Sure, but not nearly as many as we have now."

This is the lynchpin of this article, but you provide no evidence for it at all. How do you know that there are many more incidents now?

Seems to me like it's simple common sense: back in the day, there were a) proportionately fewer women who b) lived in separate dorms watched over by c) older ladies rather than their peers. Obviously in those circumstances there would be fewer opportunities for unpleasant events - certainly not **no** chance, but a lot less.

Patience, on the other hand, it has been said that, back in the day, there was a lot more fear of ridicule and scorn when it came to reporting men for sexual inappropriateness. If reported at all, the administration would white-wash over it, often pushing the female out, to save face and reputation. Universities had a much higher male to female ratio. Females stood up for themselves much less than now. At least that is the narrative.

lfon, that is true. I think by definition it would be impossible to prove statistically, but I suspect that the underlying truth is:

a) In past times, women were far less likely to be abused
b) BUT for those unfortunate women who DID get abused, they were far less likely to have any kind of justice done on their behalf.

So that leads to a moral question. Is it better to have (say) 1 victim for whom nothing is done, or 10 victims, 7 of which get appropriate redress?

I just don’t know how anyone can chuck the rape culture up to just alcohol. Those of us who are mature enough to have been paying attention, also see the moral decay that underpins all of society now.
You take young people below the age of 45,which includes a very large number having been reared in single parent households where absolutely no responsibility was demanded, and you can see what the end results might look like.Add to that the fact that the country is saturated with illegal drugs that are popularized, glorified, used like candy, and kids are bullied and ostracized if they don’t use them.
Also, we can’t ignore an entire school system that spans 16 plus years and produces young people that are barely literate.
The dangerous truths that everyone should find disturbing is the realization that todays young people have no sense of right and wrong and no sense of respect for the sanctity of human life.
Just remember, a decreasing number of these people will also procreate.

There's another factor different from "back in the day:" more -- many, many more -- too many, in fact -- women in college.

The chief result of this is that each woman's individual value decreases with so many more all around; in other words, if this one won't give Joe College what he wants, there will be another one along in a minute. Combine this with the idiocy, selfishness, and short-sightedness of feminist culture, and you have a real mess on your hands.

Another change - the definitions of rape and the now encompassing sexual assault, with the larger umbrella of misogyny.

The last on the list, misogyny, has become the linchpin of rape culture. Every joke, drunken hook-up, look, comment, book, movie, sports team, fraternity, video game etc. become evidence of rape culture. That has fueled the expansion and blurring of the sexual assault definition.

We have a misogynist culture of rapists in training lying in wait to rape pretty young coeds (don't mention those non-college women - who cares if they are more likely to be raped). To prove our point, we simply redefine sexual assault to include pretty common behavior, including kissing, touching, revoking consent after the fact when the person is drunk, etc.

When we look at rape rates, as defined by the criminal definition, they are down nearly 80% since the early 1990s. But we don't want that to get out.

Yes, today's alcohol-lubricated casual hookup culture on campus has contributed to many so-called "sexual assault" claims, typically precipitated by next-day (or next month) regret.

But "rape culture" did not begin with the raising of the drinking age, because it's a myth created by a radical feminist movement more interested in securing additional privileges for women by denying fundamental rights to men and by demonizing men as walking libidos in need of restraint.

The most recent and most exhaustive DOJ study found that campus rape is quite rare (0.2% per year), that the campus is a far safer place for young women than the rest of America and that campus sexual assault has declined in frequency by 50% since the late 1990s.

For the backstory on the way the meme of "rape culture" was created from misandric feminist dogma and eventually insinuated itself into almost every facet of US society, including nearly every media story on the "epidemic" of campus sexual assault, Google: All Sex is Rape – All Men are Rapists

For an in-depth expose of the evolution of universities from institutions of higher learning into witch-hunt tribunals for the “rape culture” advocates, Google: New Puritanism – New Paternalism: The “Rape Culture” Narrative Demeans Women, Demonizes Men, and Turns Universities into Witch Hunt Tribunals

Of course it's a lie - how else ca liberals get power? They don't offer anything constructive.