UR guys march in solidarity — and heels

Unfounded claims of widespread RAPE of college women are legion, and so effective a shaming and coercive force that it gets some men in college to walk around in high heels.

I have my own ideas about how hard it really is to get *some* of those guys to do the women's shoes thing. But if that's their thing, fine; just saying for some, it's probably not such a big challenge to their self-images, that's all. Personally, I think men ought to be as free as women are today to dress in whatever mode of style they want w/out fear of criticism or assault, up to and including donning dresses, high heels, lipstick, make-up, whatever they want. Women in jeans and button-down shirts also having short hair cuts aren't assaulted, taunted, threatened w/ their jobs (provided jeans are acceptable workplace attire anyway), and it's not labeled "cross-dressing". A man wears a pair of high heels around, and the condemnation is instant. Sporting a dress and heels may not be my thing but if it is for other guys, I'm glad for them if it makes them feel more comfortable in their own skin. (I also think that transgendered women, or men who feel they ought to look like women since they believe that is what they really are inside, face a much harder time in society than transgendered men, or women who feel that they are men-in-women's-bodies. And I think it arises simply from the idea that men must conform to expectations from women and other men more stringently than do women, and I think it's simple nymphotropism in action. Not to say transgendered men don't face challenges, judgments, criticisms, etc.; just that they're less likely to get beaten up or harrased by homophobic jerks of either sex on the street in broad daylight than are transgendered women.)

But I do have little doubt a fair enough number of college men participating in these kinds of events do so for different reasons: befriending college women, trying to look PC, or they may have actually bought the story.

"Rape crisis" statistics repeatedly debunked, just like the wage gap myth. Still, on it goes.

Now a fairly big trend involving sexual misconduct is verifiable and does exist in a scholastic setting. I am of course referring to female teachers statutorily raping their students (mostly male ones, some female), and typically getting away with it. If caught, usually it's hushed up and the teacher merely moved to a different school or quietly dismissed. (Sound familiar? Google "church pedophile sex abuse scandal" and start reading.) When actually made public the stat. rapist is typically just fired and has her license revoked or suspended for X no. of years. Maybe she'll get put on a sex offender registry. Maybe she'll have a felony conviction, or maybe she'll have gotten a plea deal down to a misdemeanor. Maybe she'll actually do time, usually however she'll get probation and a stay-away order from the court with her victim and his family as the subjects.

If however she had been male... no such luck. Felony, sex offender, 5-15 years. Eligible for parole in 2-5. See you in the Folsom yard, punk!