{"id":1317,"date":"2005-01-22T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/22\/girls-teach-coaches-and-rape\/"},"modified":"2005-01-22T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T20:39:39","slug":"girls-teach-coaches-and-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Girls Sports Coaches and Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com entitles this article about girl&#8217;s sports team coaches who commit statutory rape <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncaa\/news\/story?page=titleix\">&#8220;The Dark Side of Title IX.&#8221;<\/a> Two comments:<\/p>\n<p>First, I believe that men with jock mentalities, because they&#8217;re so much more likely to thoughtlessly buy into cultural norms of masculinity, are especially likely to be rapists. (Which isn&#8217;t to say that there aren&#8217;t a log of smart, non-macho jocks who would never rape, of course). Nonetheless, I found this statistic stunning: &#8220;In the first extensive study of its kind, sociology professor Sandra Kirby of the University of Winnipeg found that 22.8 percent of respondents in a Canadian sample had sexual intercourse with a coach or other person in position of authority within their sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Second: as the <a href=\"http:\/\/oftyieldingoptimist.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/aiming-away-from-target.html\">Oft Yielding Optimist<\/a> (who pointed this story out to me) argues, it&#8217;s ridiculous to suggest  that the problem here is Title IX.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand that they want a grabbing title that works with their headline, but in reality, Title IX gives more options to women. The more options one has, the more potential bad experiences. By following their headline&#8217;s logic, a story about a woman getting hit by a truck on her way to the polling station could be titled: &#8220;Negative Aspects of Women&#8217;s Suffrage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oftyieldingoptimist.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/aiming-away-from-target.html\">Read his whole post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com entitles this article about girl&#8217;s sports team coaches who commit statutory rape &#8220;The Dark Side of Title IX.&#8221; Two comments: First, I believe that men with jock mentalities, because they&#8217;re so much more likely to thoughtlessly buy into cultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}