Ex-College President: Women Should Drink Less To Stop Men Who 'Misbehave'

[DonViejo]

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 27, 2014, 5:55 PM EDT

The former president of The George Washington University on Tuesday joined the chorus of individuals telling college women to simply drink less in order to avoid sexual assault.

During a discussion of Greek life at U.S. colleges on The Diane Rehm Show, Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg weighed in on the issue of sexual assault, Jezebel noted on Wednesday.

Trachtenberg tried to hedge his remarks on drinking and rape by first noting that sexual assault victims should not be blamed, but he still asserted that women really need to learn to drink less.

"Without making the victims responsible for what happens, one of the groups that have to be trained not to drink in excess are women. They need to be in a position to punch the guys in the nose if they misbehave," he said. "And so part of the problem is you have men who take advantage of women who drink too much and there are women who drink too much. And we need to educate our daughters and our children in that regard."

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[Skittles]

1. the majority of college men are able to refrain from raping women who drink too much

raping is not MISBEHAVING - it is CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR - shame on this asshole

[nomorenomore08]

4. +1000

[salin]

13. d*mn drunk college girls - not doing their job to protect

themselves from the poor misbehaving drunk college boys. Leaves us so much work at the U. to do to cover for the boy... be ellusive and provide minimal services to the girl and avoid calling the police to report a crime.

[Skittles]

15. SALIN!!!

HEY!!

hoo boy you are sooooo correct

[salin]

16. Hey Skittles...

I was going to propose that perhaps you and I should go up there and Kick some Ass!

[gollygee]

2. We need to educate our daughters to prevent rape?

Really? No mention of educating our sons at all?

[elleng]

5. Right,

and teach them how to punch guys in the face!

[MattBaggins]

3. Not to blame the victim but [blame victim]

[Skittles]

9. notice how he doesn't tell the "misbehaving" men not to drink so much

you know, the ones drinking and raping

[sheshe2]

6. What an ass.

Blame the victim. It's her fault!

I know who I want to punch in the nose or better yet, kick in the balls!

[leftstreet]

7. Stay sober so you can beat the shit out of people!

What a fucking moron

Sexual assault is 'misbehaving?'

[Initech]

8. God what is wrong with these people???

[seabeyond]

10. Misbehave? He means rape. Just punch those rapists in the nose. It is all good. Nt

[anti partisan]

11. Uh if you "misbehave" (code word for rape) when drunk it is your RESPONSIBILITY to not drink!

This guy is 90% asshole, 10% pea brain!

[Wella]

12. Does this college president ENFORCE drinking laws on his campus?

This college president is a hypocrite. Like so many others, he pays lip service to the drinking problem but does NOTHING about it. Think about it? How many of these overpaid but underwhelming college presidents actually enforce drinking laws on campus? Around 3/4 of any given student body is under the legal drinking age, but does this college president ever have campus police bust up parties where underage kids are drinking (usually to excess)?

You know the answer is "NO!" (unless you go to some hyper-religious school). So, this college president is saying to young women that it's a woman's job to compensate for negative male behavior, whether it is a male who rapes them or a male who doesn't bother to protect them from (drunken) conditions under which rape can take place.

Sort of like Graham Spanier at Penn State, who was required BY LAW to report the sexual abuse of those boys and did nothing. College presidents have the ultimate responsibility for what goes on in their institutions of learning.

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Hmmm....seems it should be the ASSAULTERS who need to drink less.

The victim is NEVER responsible for being sexually assaulted. PERIOD! I don't care if you are drunker than Cooter Brown or buck-ass naked. "No" means "NO!" PERIOD! Perhaps they should offer classes that explain "NO means NO" and provide people with other alternatives:

AFRIKAANS nee
ALBANIAN jo
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ARABIC laa
ARMENIAN votch
AZERI xeyir
BASQUE ez
BELARUSIAN Не (nie)
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BURMESE ma hoke phu / hmar te
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CHEROKEE tla / hla
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ESPERANTO ne
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OCCITAN non
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PERSIAN kheyr / na
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RUSSIAN Нет (niet)
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THAI ไม่ (maï) / ไม่ใช่ (maï chaï)
TURKISH hayir
UDMURT oevoel (with nouns) / ug (with verbs)
UKRAINIAN Ні (ni)
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ZULU cha
http://www.freelang.net/expressions/no.php

In any language it means "NO!"