Today in the Daily, front and center, there was an article that caught my eye. The long and the short of it was that over the weekend a girl (who was pretty high) walked into a fraternity house, got naked, laid down on the couch, and started masturbating. Apparently the girl was quite calm throughout, talking not only to the boys who lived there but also on her cell phone. Well, after a half hour of that, the boys decided to call the police. And this got me thinking...
If that had been a guy who walked into a sorority, undressed, laid on the couch, and started touching himself those girls would NOT have waited a half hour to call the police. Why? Because they would have felt so threatened. Isn't the contradiction interesting? A guy basically sexually harassing a bunch of girls -- disgusting, scarring, threatening. A girl doing the same thing to a bunch of guys -- laughable, perhaps slightly confusing, a funny story.
So, why didn't these guys feel threatened, too?
1 comment:
i'm not exactly sure, but i bet it was something to do with the patriarchy. And probably the fact that 1 in 4 women are raped.
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