It's Always the Woman's Fault

Direct your letters to Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former president of George Washington University, and apparent expert on Greek life and women’s drinking habits. While appearing on the Diane Rehm Show, this beacon of higher education said we should not blame the victims of sexual assault. Then he proceeded to blame them.

“One of the groups that have to be trained not to drink in excess are women. They need to be in a position to punch the guys in the nose if they misbehave,” he said, perhaps thinking he was being clever, or kind of cool for that nose-punch line. “And so part of the problem is you have men who take advantage of women who drink too much and there are women who drink too much. And we need to educate our daughters and our children in that regard.”

Wait, did we miss the part where he said young men should drink less, and stop raping people? We must have.

  Salon

And, to my surprise, Diane didn’t call him on it. Or if she did, it was edited out of the program.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.