Guns on Campus - Rape Culture Gets Another Weapon

Guns on campus. Guns at my workplace. Great.

What upsets me most about this debate is how it's being used as a defense against rape. 

Concealed carry on campus as a defense against sexual violence is problematic. It's another way of saying, "It's your fault you got raped." The dominant narrative is if you don't scream or fight, then it can't be rape - ignoring the fact that 73 percent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by a non-stranger. Now rape culture gets another angle, "Why didn't you have a concealed carry permit? It's your fault (again)."

The real villain in campus sexual assaults is the prevailing attitude that men are owed women's bodies. I have heard that "women are the keepers of sex." Bro attitude much? 

This narrative of women owing men sex and that if men just ask/pester enough they will be given what they are owed damages healthy relationships.

Men - women do not owe you a damn thing. If you're pissed that you paid for dinner and got no sex, then next time either go Dutch or tell her beforehand you'd like her to pick up the check. Your money does not entitle you to anything other than the service you paid for.

Don't replicate the patriarchy. Women are not property to be passed among the hands of men. We owe you jack. fucking. shit.

I don't need the water torture of "if I pester her enough, she'll change her mind." No, no, no.

I don't need conservative voices saying concealed carry is a rape-prevention strategy. I don't need rape culture getting yet another weapon to say women are at fault for the sexual violence perpetrated against them. Rapists are at fault and rapists do not need society giving their actions yet another excuse.