The disturbing truth about college football and rape

[Tennis]

At American schools with powerhouse football programs, college game day often brings hordes of rowdy visitors and booze-soaked tailgates. Students wake early and chug vodka with breakfast. Gift shops sell T-shirts that brag, “Never lost a party.”

Jason Lindo, an economic professor at Texas A&M University, wondered if this elevated revelry intensified the risk of sexual assault on campus. Alcohol, he knew, promotes aggression.

So, Lindo and his colleagues analyzed 22 years of FBI data to compare reports of rape to the law enforcement agencies serving students at Division 1 schools on game days to reports on non-game days, controlling for differences expected across different days of the week and times of the year.

They found a strong link between football match-ups and an increase in college women, ages 17 to 24, reporting rape. Such reports increased on the days of home games by 41 percent, according to a new study, published Monday. They spiked 15 percent during away games.

And after underdog teams unexpectedly beat higher-ranked opponents on campus, reported rapes on average surged a whopping 57 percent.

Overall, researchers conclude, football games are associated with 253 to 770 additional rapes per year across the 128 schools in Division 1A.

“Potential perpetrators,” the authors wrote, “may believe that the probability of being punished (and the degree of punishment) will be lower if they and/or their victims are inebriated.”

Campus rape remains prevalent. Earlier this year, an Association of American Universities survey of 150,000 students at 27 universities found that, since enrolling in college, 13.5 percent of senior undergraduate women and 2.9 percent of senior undergraduate men had experienced “non consensual penetration involving physical force or incapacitation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ball-and-rape/


This is getting out of hand. If this is the effect College Football has then it may be time to reconsider the activity.

[Revi]

"statistically when more people go in the water, more people drown"

More shocking research at 11.

[zorkuus]

This is getting out of hand. If this is the effect College Football has then it may be time to reconsider the activity.

So not alcohol then?

[Mehrunes]

So not alcohol then?

[Tennis]

So not alcohol then?

All routes need to be pursued to reduce the rates of women being raped.

[Fawkess]

What the hell is your avatar?

Looks like Captain Hindsight from Southpark

[nextormento]

What is the link in all these stories?
college!
education is to blame.
Teach people not to learn I say.

[PC2]

This is getting out of hand. If this is the effect College Football has then it may be time to reconsider the activity.

Nope, changing an activity for everyone because of the actions of a few bad individuals is just as fallacious as blaming guns and not the people who pull the trigger.

[Fawkess]

What is the link in all these stories?
college!
education is to blame.
Teach people not to learn I say.

Then we can go back to the medieval age
Settle things with swords and armor instead of words

Folks like Tennisance here get challenged to chivalry

[breadisfunny]

tennisace you are truly a defender of women's rights. keep fighting the good fight.

[Tennis]

tennisace you are truly a defender of women's rights. keep fighting the good fight.

The only way for things to change is by keeping the issue front and centre.

[Fawkess]

The only way for things to change is by keeping the issue front and centre.

The only way things can change is for you to get banned

Forever!

[Elegiac]

This is getting out of hand. If this is the effect College Football has then it may be time to reconsider the activity.

But without their circuses, how will the public enjoy their bread?

[breadisfunny]

The only way for things to change is by keeping the issue front and centre.

exactly this needs to be brought up so that things change.

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The only way things can change is for you to get banned

why are you so against women's rights?

[PC2]

All routes need to be pursued to reduce the rates of women being raped.

This is a very ignorant attitude. The point of life isn't to reduce the possibility of anything bad ever happening to zero. In this fantasy world of yours no one would be able to get out of bed, drive a car, play a sport, etc.

[Pann]

What is the link in all these stories?
college!
education is to blame.
Teach people not to learn I say.

It would appear that Gen OT is taking small steps to this goal each and every day.

[breadisfunny]

This is a very ignorant attitude. The point of life isn't to reduce the possibility of anything bad ever happening to zero. In this fantasy world of yours no one would be able to get out of bed, drive a car, play a sport, etc.

they could die in their sleep though.

[Fawkess]

why are you so against women's rights?

I'm pretty sure this guy does not fight for them

Maybe he fights for Fishtoes but no one else

[zorkuus]

they could die in their sleep though.

We need to find a way to cure sleep.

[Crissi]

Might as well ban New Years Eve, St Patricks Day, and any other occasion that results in an increase of drinking and partying. its not football itself, its the drinking that goes with just about everything in college