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Was I fully convinced by the authors claims? No. Do I believe in parts of this article? Yes. A lot of the information being given during the course of the article checks out and what is being said isn’t false, but the overall conducted research doesn’t seem detailed enough for me to be convinced. The main objective when looking at a situation from a “sociologist’s perspective” is to remain objective, free of bias. I feel like the authors didn’t accomplish that. The whole text was very one sided, focussing mainly on how unfairly women were being treated during these events. As party rapes do occur, and as terrible as they are, never once was it mentioned or even investigated if there were any men being sexually assaulted in these dormitories. …show more content…

Basing the research on one single school, and on one single year, gives very little “accurate” information. There needs to be a diversification of the database to consider these numbers and these statements to be valid. Male victims should also be taken into account when tallying the numbers. The article focusses mainly on women being sexually abused by men, but there is a big possibility that men were also targets of sexual assaults, and them being male doesn’t make it any less relevant. This alternative side to the problem should be presented and further looked in to in hopes of not only bringing awareness to the issue of male sexual assault, but also of getting the proper numbers and the most accurate information out there to the public. All in all, the article brings up many issues regarding sexual assault on females, specifically those brought on by drinking and partying at fraternities, but there is a lot more information to gather concerning this issue: sexual abuse on men, rapes occurring for other reasons, fraternities’ rights, etc. A mix of education and awareness as well as bigger sanctions needs to be imposed when these events occur in hopes of bringing these elevated numbers

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