Hypocrisy in Sexual Assault Law
By Matthew Carrigan | March 7, 2006In a recent op-ed, "Sexual Assault: The Culture of Protection" (Feb. 28), the author describes a deficiency in campus-wide dialogue regarding sexual assault, namely that people tend to disregard the role of men (and the Greek system as a whole) in perpetrating crimes and instead focus on what women can do to protect themselves from assaults. While her point is ultimately correct, perhaps it would be useful to examine why some men tend to disregard vitriolic feminist rhetoric when it comes to the sensitive subject of sexual assault. Now, I will not claim to speak for all men, or even for all men who oppose views such as those that the author of last week's op-ed espouses; instead, I would like to present one masculine opinion about the state of affairs of sexual assault discussions at Dartmouth. First things first: the crime of "rape" no longer exists under New Hampshire.