The Hunting Ground (2015) (documentary)

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WATCH (1h26m) YouTube version of the documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgoKuYIt1k&list=PLYbTaOBdS1W5T4XAOjyvsRoSnxsLsoJKo&index=3&t=0s

WATCH YouTube playlist of and about the 2015 documentary
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYbTaOBdS1W5T4XAOjyvsRoSnxsLsoJKo

A documentary about the rapes being ignored by American universities. The rapes are being ignored by both the universities and the local university-educated justice representatives who benefit from the university. The documentary shows the systemic way in which the universities are covering up the rapes because they are selling a product - education and sports tickets and TV - that would be tarnished by rape convictions or expulsions. There is a list in the documentary, see the video College Sexual Assault Statistics, in which they list roughly 200 rapes per university - yearly, and roughly 2 expulsions per rape - yearly. (Most expulsions are on a temporary basis, where the rapist is re-enrolled on appeal. Some rapists are assigned a term paper as punishment on how to meet women, or fined $75, and other overtly not-punishment punishments.) At the end of the statistics sequence, one of the universities that has 0 expulsions for rape, had 183 expulsions for cheating and other honour violations that year. Ironically, rape is not considered an honour violation. The women are also seen to ‘take back the night’ by launching, in 2015, a campaign to file a Title IX complaint against the universities and empowering women at other universities with their support. Title IX is a section of the education code that provides a guarantee of a safe educational environment for all. The documentary is an excellent example, although it is not framed this way, of the systemic nature of the patriarchy.

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