Here's a 2015 recording of a campus town hall on rape hosted by the president of @BardCollege, Leon Botstein. Transcript below. drive.google.com/file/d/1LkGcsQ…
Here's the transcriptdocs.google.com/document/d/1hw…
"Consent is the most dangerous part because we have had cases where people retrospectively go back to a consensual relationship. Let's say they did it in their freshman year, first year, when they're juniors, the seniors and look back and say that wasn't consensual."
"Are we in a position to regulate your private life in a way that gives us assurance that nothing is going on, would essentially put a secret police, a surveillance system in place. You follow me?"
"We're caught between the respect of your privacy in your adulthood and our absence of intrusion in your private life. And then being held by the state and by you."
"We also are very uneasy about opening the entire campus to the free rein of police."
"Even though the person said yes, not drunk and not impaired, they can claim that they felt the pressure. So the image of the male as the seducer is an inherently dangerous idea. My advice is to tell all the men, 'Don't talk, let them ask you and document it.'"
"The interpretation of what is violent is subjective, is not objective."
"Now I may be an idiot, but I have actually never been involved in a... I can say this in an intimate circumstance where I actually thought it was about power."
"Sexual violence is not only about power."
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