Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon, quotes an Inside Higher Ed article and then ads her own interpretation

Overall, UNH has found that the number of unwanted sexual experiences on campus declined significantly from 1988 to 2000, during which time the university established a crisis center and put a number of prevention programs in place. However, there has been little change since 2000 — prompting a need for more creative, broad-based responses, said Victoria Banyard, an associate professor of psychology and a co-author.

I find this interesting, because the reduction in the rape rate that’s been national and somewhat continuous ever since feminists made rape a big issue shows that the primary criticism feminists have—that ours is a “rape culture”, i.e. that rape is a product of a culture that is tolerant or even approving of it—was right, and when you change the culture, you change the rate of rape.

The traditional, conservative explanation for rape is that it’s built into men’s biology, and therefore the only way to slow it or stop it is to put the onus on women to avoid being a temptation or to keep yourself out of harm’s way. Obviously, the facts do not support this contention, because if anything, women are more and more flouting the rules that have always been put on us with the ostensible purpose of stopping rape and the practical effect of limiting women’s freedom of movement. ... Turns out the feminists were right after all—the best way to stop rape is for men to stop raping, not for women to try to get men to stop raping. Men, it turns out, were equal to the task, largely defeating man-hating anti-feminist nay-sayers who portray men as brutes whose dominance can’t be challenged, much less stopped. [emphasis here is mine —fl]

Read the quote here.

Is it working everywhere? Um, no. Is it working at all? Well *something’s changing (after following this link scroll down to official replies) Is it working overall? Well, if rates have held steady for eight years after falling quite a lot, and if the secondary assault on Melissa Bruen at U-Conn could still happen, then… we need to be doing something else that… probably also involves creating expectations for them/us/me/men to rise to rather than allowing anti-feminists to set them as low as possible.

And just one again what’s wrong with those people who go around saying men are just so “Great Race, the Romans” superior we can’t tell the difference between, for instance, “yes” and an alcohol coma?