Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution Page #10

Grabbing and fondling her f***ing fun box.

[all] P*ssy! P*ssy! Hey, P*ssy!

[man] P*ssy!

[man] Why... why do guys feel

entitled to women's bodies?

Because it's--it's not even

the spring break mentality.

It happens everywhere. I can tell you--

[Loden] Bars.

I can tell you everywhere.

Especially we have a club

back in town called Coliseum.

Every time I go into this club,

I can count 100% some guy's

going to try and take

my clothes off, 100%.

Guys feel like-- And it's not even--

Media makes them think that it's OK

because women are sexual objects.

They're not like people.

[Loden] MTV, man.

It plays a big role in that.

I watched the MTV Spring Break

when I was a kid growing up.

And you watch that, like I watched

that a child growing up,

like MTV Spring Break.

And you watch that

and you're like, "Spring break,

you can do anything you want to."

[woman] Everybody ready? Yep, OK.

Um...

Well, guys, today we're here to talk about

probably one of the most

disgusting, repulsive,

sickening things that I've seen

this year on Panama City Beach,

and I've seen a lot of them.

Today, we bring a case forward

and--and publically of a gang rape

type sexual battery that occurred,

uh, during the middle of March

on the sandy white beaches

directly behind the Spinnaker Club.

Bay County Sheriff's

officials are continuing

to investigate a video that has surfaced.

An apparent spring break gang rape

recorded on a cell phone.

There is a screenshot

of the alleged assault,

it has been blurred.

[woman] The video shows

hundreds of beachgoers

continuing to party while

less than 10 feet away

police say at least

three men were gang raping

an apparently unconscious

19-year-old woman.

[Megyn] They say that her legs

are being held down,

the police tell us.

They say you can hear people saying,

"That's nasty,"

and, "She isn't going to know,".

The visual of everyone there

not doing anything about it

just shows how permissible it is

in our society.

A crowded beach, broad daylight,

and this apparently happening

and no one doing a darn thing.

How is that possible?

How do we explain something like this?

[Sean] How could this happen,

a gang rape in broad daylight

on the beach with people all

around this unconscious girl?

It's beyond my comprehension,

especially if it was behind

one of the super clubs.

This is not the first

video we've recovered,

it's not the second video,

it's not the third video.

There's a number of videos we recovered

with things similar to this.

And I can only imagine

how many we haven't recovered.

This is about something

endemic in our culture,

both in the spring break culture

and on our college campuses,

where we have

institutionalized binge alcohol

and hooking up culture.

And at spring break, this is acted out.

look, as the sheriff said,

more than he understood,

more than he imagined,

it's becoming normative,

so these kids don't even understand

they're engaging in criminal

behavior when people are

in a condition to not even be

able to defend themselves.

[Frank] Our culture, and our society

and our young people have got to the point

to where obviously this is

acceptable somewhere.

And we can wear t-shirts and say

save our beach all we want to,

but that is not going to restore this girl

who was viciously violated

by these individuals

last month on our beaches.

[Don] What are they thinking?

Like, what are these guys thinking?

And the answer is very simple,

they think it's OK.

They think that this is what

they're supposed to do,

this is the party.

This is what you do.

You have respectable businesses,

hotels and restaurants

and otherwise respectable businesses,

who are saying do that.

Let's have this night.

Let's do these kind of shots.

All right, it's a whole culture

that's saying do this.

And so they're just

acting out all those things

that they've seen in one way or another

through various forms of media growing up.

They were socialized in our neighborhoods,

they were socialized in our high schools

and our communities.

And we can sit there and watch that

and see this horrific scene,

"What were they thinking?"

They were thinking it was OK.

[Caroline] During spring break,

sexual violence is absolutely the norm.

the strange thing about all of this

is this happens every year,

and this happens

with hundreds of thousands

of people in hundreds of cities.

The fact that we normalize that

and let that happen

in a public setting I think

is a clear indicator

that we live in a rape culture

where we condone this sort of behavior.

So, when we ask ourselves

why is it that young people

are engaging in these things,

we have to look at ourselves

as well, because this is the culture

that we've created.

[Sut] What does it mean to be masculine?

What does it mean to be feminine?

What is the full range

of what it means to be human?

In popular culture,

men and women are encouraged

to be in the world in very,

very narrow ways.

We need to create a world

that's not this narrow box,

but there's this whole range of ways

in which girls can be girls

and boys can be boys.

[Robert] When you get men

away from the banter

and the bravado of trying

to impress other men,

you get a very different story.

You get a story of complexity,

of self-doubt.

Because I think at some level,

we all know as men

that this conception

of masculinity is undermining

our own ability to be full human beings.

If you really want to be

a person in the deepest sense

that we mean that, you've got to let go

of what we've learned as men,

which is to use women

for our own sexual pleasure.

[Don] You haven't challenged men

and boys to be better.

You haven't seen men challenge

each other to be loving

and caring and sensitive

and passive and submissive

and empathetic and vulnerable.

We don't allow other men

to be those things,

but that's the truth for us as men.

We need to be more honest

about who we are as emotional,

vulnerable human beings.

[Tony] I remember asking

a nine-year-old boy

if he didn't have to live

with these norms that

he has to negotiate,

if he didn't have to live with that,

you know, what would

the impact be for him.

And he said to me, "I would be free."

And I said, "Wow, he's not liberated."

So, these same notions

of manhood that are

holding women hostage

are holding men hostage.

It's important for men to see that it's in

our own self-interest to embrace

the dignity of women.

By embracing the dignity of women,

I'm allowing myself to be full,

myself to be whole.

When I embrace the dignity of women,

I'm no longer being held hostage

to these rigid norms

that define manhood.

So, when I'm promoting freedom for women,

I'm promoting freedom for me.

[Caroline] The system is completely

and profoundly broken for women.

And so it's good for young women to fight

to get away from the messages

that make us feel

that we need to be sex objects

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