It is 2016, right? Stanford did just go through an extremely high profile and damaging situation with the whole Brock Turner thing, right? The kid who sexually assaulted a woman visiting campus, blamed the assault on the "party culture" at school, and then got off lightly for it? Stanford seems to have taken the wrong lesson from the whole experience. Because, see, it's still all on the young woman getting raped, not the guy doing it.
The fix? Banning large containers of hard alcohol from campus undergraduate events and telling women to be careful about how they might be “perceived” by men if they drink. […]
A new website under Stanford’s homepage popped up shortly after Monday’s announcement, titled “Female Bodies and Alcohol.”
“A woman will get drunk faster than a man consuming the same amount of alcohol,” reads the page’s first bullet point. It goes on to detail how women should “optimize the positive effects of alcohol and avoid negative consequences.”
The page originally had a section specifically addressing alcohol and sex, but administrators have since deleted it. An archived version of the site holds the cut content.
That cut content? "Research tells us that women who are seen drinking alcohol are perceived to be more sexually available than they may actually be." Also "men who think they [women] have been drinking alcohol … feel sexually aroused and are more responsive to erotic stimuli, including rape scenarios." There is no corresponding page on the Stanford site for "Male Bodies and Alcohol," and no page saying "Men: Don't Rape." At least Stanford administrators realized they had a problem with the original content in their advice to young women. Too bad they couldn't also see the need to lecture their young men.
Standford law professor Michele Dauber is not impressed.