I certainly agree.
Ms. Dale, my wife worked with sexual assault victims in the 1980s. My oldest is working with them now. When I hear my daughters speak, they blow my mind about the pervasiveness of what they call rape culture. They say that in Ottawa there are “rapey bars”, and young women are told, “Don't go there: that's where you get raped.” I mean, I hung out with a lot of dumb doofuses when I was growing up, but I never heard of a rapey bar.
How do we start to address this? What my daughters tell me is that when one of their friends is assaulted—and these are young women with some levels of power and of education—their inability to even go forward with the complaint...because sometimes the people who are perpetrating these have power too. How do we start to address these issues? Incapacity becomes a central focus when young women have to bring their own drinks—with a top on their drinks—to a party. This is a much more pervasive problem. How do we start to deal with this crisis?