During my trip to Missoula, I was shocked by how many UM students found it inconceivable that an illustrious football player—a quarterback, no less—would ever rape anyone. “Those guys can sleep with anyone they want,” people told me over and over again…. For example, everyone agrees that, in the words of a man I meet under the disconcertingly fluorescent lighting at a divey sports bar called Missoula Club, football players in particular “don’t need to rape to get fucked.” This is despite the fact that at least six of the school’s football players were involved in the cases currently being
...more
