It’s a fundamental lack of empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) that makes men say women should avoid parties,where they’d never say drunk driving victims should avoid roadsToday Ohio Republican governor John Kasich presented a “solution” to sexual violence that is more flawed than his losing presidential campaign. At a town hall in Watertown, original York, and he told a female college student that to avoid “sexual violence,harassment and rape” she should not “go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol”.
His flawed logic should not be surprising. After all, Kasich’s comments are only the latest in a long tradition of Republican victim-blaming, or which includes Todd Akin’s view of “legitimate rape” and more recently,Ben Carson’s opposition to abortion for sex assault survivors. Yet the fact that so many influential men still fail to grasp the basics of rape culture is both intellectually baffling and incredibly uncertain for women. To decrease the rates of sexual assault, we need men to fight misogyny.
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Source: theguardian.com