Very, very sad

Recently I assigned as a homework assignment to all my Priests. I had them read the following conference talk and then return and report on it:

The Sanctity of Womanhood by Elder Richard G. Scott

If you haven't read it in awhile, I recommend you review it because what I'm about to share highlights his point very well.

Today in my Human Sexuality class the topic was on rape. It is a touchy topic, but one that I was looking forward too since with a goal to be an adolescent therapist, I think that treating rape victims will be in my future.

At one point during the class our teacher talked about a very typical rape scenario, which is that a woman, on a date, has been flirty and permissive right up to insertion, then tells the man to stop. The teacher then asked the class two questions:

1) Does this constitute rape?

2) Was it the woman's fault?

To be very clear up front, the answers are: 1) YES 2) NO

The teacher then engaged the class into a discussion about the second question. He really wanted us to think about the situation, the definition of "fault," etc. Believe it or not a couple of guys said that the girl would be a bit at fault. Other people mentioned that at any time a woman should be able to say "no" and expect the situation to end.

I decided to say something and raised my hand. When the teacher called on me, I believe my exact response was "I want to make sure that I say this right. It is not the woman's fault, and no one should blame her. However, people in their lives occasionally make bad decisions that lead to unfortunate and unexpected consequences, that are not their fault. At the same time the decisions that led to those consequences can serve as an example to others to help them avoid similar circumstances."

It was the answer the teacher wanted, but a girl in the class could not have been angrier about what I said. She yelled out, "what, so girls aren't supposed to date?" I retorted that dating is one thing, but naked foreplay on the first date is usually a bad decision. At that point the class somewhat exploded and it took a few moments for the teacher to calm everybody down. He then moved on so that we could get through all the material for the day.

More happened then I can put into this whole post, but suffice to say this clearly illustrates the unfortunate state of womanhood in today's modern society described by Elder Scott. So many women nowadays only describe themselves in terms of their sexuality, and don't even know how to relate to men outside of that context.

Unfortunately, women will not be able to fix this problem themselves. It can only be done by men rising up to the higher standard set by modern prophets and then helping women reach their divine potential.