Tina deVaron’s article “At Colleges Plagued with Date Rape, Why ‘No’ Still Means ‘Yes’” argues that the amount of date rape on college campuses is due to women feeling that they have to tolerate the lewd behaviors being exhibited by young college men. DeVaron starts the article describing a college a cappella performance. As part of their performance an all male group pretended to unzip their pants and then continued to “thrust their pelvises” towards a meek young female on stage. She explains how this type of lewd behavior is being allowed to happen on college campuses all over, enabling men to rape. She claims these unsafe environments are not being properly addressed. She then details her own sexual assault in college at the hands of a rugby captain she knew. She shows statistics that most women are raped by people they know and implies that women are afraid to stand up to men that they know. She ends the article with a plea for action from everyone in the college system to not let these lewd behaviors continue.
DeVaron uses this article to bring attention to an issue that most people, who are not currently in college, may think is starting to go …show more content…
She shows many examples of how male sexual dominance is still a current issue despite that it might not seem that way, due to what some may see on social media, or the news. Her first example is of the a cappella performance when the young men “pantomimed unzipping their flies, and bluntly thrust their pelvises forward at the lone young woman on stage”. She uses this example to not only show that college campuses still allow this kind of environment to be created, but to show how this environment contributes to young women's passive behavior. Because the majority of men at these universities are able to get away with this type of behavior it makes females feel they have to go along with it and remain passive, or become an outcast to their
DeVaron uses this article to bring attention to an issue that most people, who are not currently in college, may think is starting to go …show more content…
She shows many examples of how male sexual dominance is still a current issue despite that it might not seem that way, due to what some may see on social media, or the news. Her first example is of the a cappella performance when the young men “pantomimed unzipping their flies, and bluntly thrust their pelvises forward at the lone young woman on stage”. She uses this example to not only show that college campuses still allow this kind of environment to be created, but to show how this environment contributes to young women's passive behavior. Because the majority of men at these universities are able to get away with this type of behavior it makes females feel they have to go along with it and remain passive, or become an outcast to their