https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...ons-kavanaugh/
The Kavanaugh business has highlighted just how impervious certain groups are to facts about sexual assault. They live in a different world cut off from the real one, a world where only black men and Muslim men rape women, where men aren't raped, where real victims promptly report being assaulted and where armies of women falsely accuse innocent white dudes for partisan gain. The vast majority of us know this is bullshit, but even then the true extent of these problems may be hard to appreciate. We assume we know what rape is and just go on from there.
But does everyone know what rape is? Have they always? I thought we'd made some progress, but the kinds of stories shared in this article remain common, and what disturbs me greatly is that, although most teens today appear to understand consent far better than many of their parents, there's still a widespread belief among teens that alcohol and exposure to "risk" somehow fundamentally change the nature of the consent problem. The only good thing about this stomach-turning affair is that it might energize the conversation among teens and help them come to a new consensus.