Today's editorial in our local paper addresses the larger cultural context. Excerpted:
Our young have absorbed these values in a society that continues to glorify violence and objectify the vulnerable.
College administrators and lawmakers are waking up and strengthening policies, but real change will come only when more of us consciously live and speak with the kind of integrity that makes raping, not being raped, the disgrace.
Joking about rape and ostracizing those with the courage to report it must become part of our ugly past. This shift must start at home. With each of us.
http://www.newsleader.com/story/opin...blem/19415149/
