School set to punish over "rape chant"
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I think people are going way overboard about this, largely because neither the students doing the chanting, nor the people getting upset about it, understand what it is all about.
These kids are not advocating sex with 12-13 year olds, they are singing a verse that has been around on campuses for a long time.
IMO it started on the campus's of Californian Universities and Colleges as a way of thumbing their noses against authority. Why you may ask? Because, in California (and no where else in North America is it this draconian) the age of consent is 18 and there are NO exceptions, even if close in age. Sex before 18 is 100% illegal and will get you sent to prison for years as a sex offender if caught at it.
What age are typical students as freshman in college or university? 17. And with all the parties going on in their first year, they are making out like bunnies. This song/chant is a way of taunting authorities that they are going to do it no matter what the law says.
That is what it is about, not banging 12 year olds.
Why are Canadian students doing it even though they are all legal and this song doesn't apply to them? Because they are dumbasses who don't know better, they are doing it because it is fashionable to do it, not because there is a hidden message.
This whole episode just highlights how stupid people on both sides of an argument can be.
These kids are not advocating sex with 12-13 year olds, they are singing a verse that has been around on campuses for a long time.
IMO it started on the campus's of Californian Universities and Colleges as a way of thumbing their noses against authority. Why you may ask? Because, in California (and no where else in North America is it this draconian) the age of consent is 18 and there are NO exceptions, even if close in age. Sex before 18 is 100% illegal and will get you sent to prison for years as a sex offender if caught at it.
What age are typical students as freshman in college or university? 17. And with all the parties going on in their first year, they are making out like bunnies. This song/chant is a way of taunting authorities that they are going to do it no matter what the law says.
That is what it is about, not banging 12 year olds.
Why are Canadian students doing it even though they are all legal and this song doesn't apply to them? Because they are dumbasses who don't know better, they are doing it because it is fashionable to do it, not because there is a hidden message.
This whole episode just highlights how stupid people on both sides of an argument can be.
Tugela, that may all be true, BUT what about this part?
Also, as you put it, your "reasoning" is based on your opinion as opposed to some independent source:
some kids are born after september, and don't turn 18 til they are done their first semester in college.
If someone is underage and engages in consensual sex, the law does not recognize the consent. That is what the "N" stands for, not actual non-consent.
Are you seriously suggesting that they are openly looking for 12 year olds to rape???
This "chant" is apparently common from coast to coast, so it is likely being done everywhere. It did not come from Canada because if it did they would have to be talking about 12-13 year olds. That means it originated somewhere else, where statutory rape applies to college level ages, and the only place I can think of where that is the case is California. There are other states in the US with high ages of consent, but AFAIK all of those also have close of age exceptions. It is only in California where this would be a real problem for students at college.
Where I grew up you started school when you were 6 months either way of being 6 at the start of the school year. Half of freshman starting at University were 17, as was I. They turned 18 that school year.
funny and interesting
but being a dumbass, is no excuse.
it doesn't or never has worked for me.
