PBS: Parents, use this Lady Gaga video to talk to your sons about rape

[ViviLittleM 3]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/10-things-tell-sons-rape/

The superstar singer has just released an incredibly moving video for “Til it Happens to You” — a song recorded for The Hunting Ground, a documentary about rape on college campuses. The video already has been viewed more than 7 million times on YouTube.

I am so grateful to Gaga for using her extraordinary platform in this way. As the mother of a daughter who will someday go off to college, the statistics — that one in four to five college girls will be s-xually assaulted during her college career — are as frightening as they are maddening.

Because if you are the parent of a boy between the ages of 11 and 18, Lady Gaga has just given you a golden opportunity to discuss this all-too-important subject. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but what you say today has the power to alter the course of a young girl’s life.

[Chic 20,830]

Castrate ha

[Head Empty 25,163]

I'm all here for spreading awareness, and I love the Gaga praise, but I'm not sure she'd have much of an impact on the minds of teenage boys . Or at least, not the ones who are likely to show that kind of s-xually inappropriate behavior.

Simply talking to them as a parent would be great though

[Bebe 17,094]

Yes! Unfortunately I think, as a culture, we spend more time telling women to watch what they wear, group together, watch their drinks and avoid walking in the dark rather than educating our young men about rape and s-xual violence.

It's also a topic I find is often left out in s-x-ed classes in schools, even if they are among the better s-x-ed classes.

[GagaMyBlood95 9,915]

It is true tbh, it's a great message  

[PartySick 160,334]

And the first thing that pops into my mind is not all victims of rape are women, not all rapists are men.

[ViviLittleM 3]

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[YCHofficial 5,293]

And the first thing that pops into my mind is not all victims of rape are women, not all rapists are men.

This omg 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Yes! Unfortunately I think, as a culture, we spend more time telling women to watch what they wear, group together, watch their drinks and avoid walking in the dark rather than educating our young men about rape and s-xual violence.

It's also a topic I find is often left out in s-x-ed classes in schools, even if they are among the better s-x-ed classes.

This  

The indirect victim blaming is disgusting  

I cant wait for a future where our culture doesn't tell men that they are entitled to s-x and women's bodies  

And the first thing that pops into my mind is not all victims of rape are women, not all rapists are men.

This wasn't what popped into my mind at all, because that seems obvious to me being raised feminist  but the documentary focused on campus rape, which is definitely a gendered issue disproportionately facing women.

[Jay.P 2,336]

(Most) teenage boys still think she's a man and being associated to her=gay.

[swordstalker 1,829]

It's weird how this article says "one in four to five college girls will be s-xually assaulted during her college career" but the music video says "one in five college girls will be s-xually assaulted this year" at 4:36. I'm going to assume the former is true, because the latter seems way too high. 

 

[Dominic 11,922]

Let's not forget that men can also be victim of rape too.  The article doesn't really display that, more so just pushes all the blame onto men.  Anyone can be the victim regardless of race, gender, s-xuality or location. 

[Bebe 17,094]

Let's not forget that men can also be victim of rape too.  The article doesn't really display that, more so just pushes all the blame onto men.  Anyone can be the victim regardless of race, gender, s-xuality or location. 

Your first sentence is of course true, of course men can get raped and that's terrible. There is a focus on women because the numbers show that women are far more likely to s-xually assaulted and/or raped.

It's also relevant to discuss that the vast majority of rape/s-xual assaults on men are committed by other men, so the need to educate young men on rape is enormously important.
 

[PartySick 160,334]

This wasn't what popped into my mind at all, because that seems obvious to me being raised feminist  but the documentary focused on campus rape, which is definitely a gendered issue disproportionately facing women.

Oh, yeah, I understand it's their specific cause and all, I just don't like the generalization of rape as a male on female crime or the portrayal of men as s-xually disturbed pigs who need to be trained to keep their hands to themselves (which this could easily be twisted into saying )

You shouldn't have to teach your boys to not rape. If you instill them with common decency and respect for other people then rape won't be an issue for them unless they end up being a victim.

[Dominic 11,922]

Your first sentence is of course true, of course men can get raped and that's terrible. There is a focus on women because the numbers show that women are far more likely to s-xually assaulted and/or raped.
It's also relevant to discuss that the vast majority of rape/s-xual assaults on men are committed by other men, so the need to educate young men on rape is enormously important.
 

Of course the statistics suggest otherwise but I think that is only because a majority of cases involving a man who has been raped rarely gets reported let alone documented.  We should teach both men and women about rape, it's not necessarily gender specific, there's not a 'rape switch' in the male brain so personally for me education on the subject should be for the masses.