Male student gang-raped by muslim youth for cross-dressing. Uni bans cross dressing.

[Autumnlicious]

I see that someone in administration needs to be dragged out and shot.

As in the United States, student fraternities in Belgium have a long tradition of initiation rituals for new members, some of which include male students wearing drag.

Last month, a student that was on his way to an initiation evening dressed as a woman was set upon by a group of youths. They took him to a car park before robbing him of his mobile and gang raping him.
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The HUB advises its students that “certain groups perceive wearing drag as being provocative.” Consequently, the Institute of Higher Education that groups most the capital’s Dutch-medium colleges of higher education advises its students against dressing as a member of the opposite sex.

REF: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.en...6_HUB_drag

Can someone explain to me how raping a male is some how supposed to demonstrate one is not "gay" if one is a male?

I always thought if dick goes in guy butt, it's by definition "gay"...

[The Grand Nudger]

See what happens when you wrap your females up like human spring roles? The first time you so much as glimpse anything that looks remotely like a girl your dick ends up stuffed in one of it's orifices.

[Darkstar]

+ = how I feel about this.

[Angrboda]

It's unclear from this story precisely what the response of the uni was. The headline states that dressing in drag has been banned (which may or may not include cross-dressing), yet the story only references them stating that doing so might provoke certain elements. Perhaps the statement could be clearer, I don't know without more complete information. However, they have an obligation to try to protect the safety of their students, regardless of the cause of the threat to their safety. At many colleges, women are advised not to walk to isolated parking facilities or home without company or escort at certain hours. This isn't blaming them for doing so if they should be assaulted in that event, but alerting them to a tangible danger in the community, and what they can do to minimize their risk.

I'm not suggesting this is all to this complex issue or their response to it, just that there are valid reasons for a uni issuing such warnings beyond inappropriate moralizing.

ps. Please shorten your thread titles.

[Autumnlicious]

shortened title. forgot the software has an (idiot) bug where putting in max chars makes it impossible to reply due to "re: " being appended onto the string.

php - not even once.

(he says as he fights rails...)

[Dee Dee Ramone]

The victim (left)

[Darkstar]

Is that a real picture, or a joke? (Sorry if I sound stupid in asking)
If it is a real picture of the victim, then I stand by my 'uni blaming the victim' stance on the article. How can anything be less provocative? Well, okay, there is this:

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[Cato]

Whoa! Can't remember the last time I saw a picture of Ziggy.

[Something completely different]

Can someone explain to me how raping a male is some how supposed to demonstrate one is not "gay" if one is a male?

I always thought if dick goes in guy butt, it's by definition "gay"...

At the risk of sounding distastefull.

"Shoving" a object up a persons anus without that persons consent also is rape.

Other than that......... if "dick" was involved it might be suppresed homosexuality.

[Tiberius]

Misleading title. Advising against something is not the same as banning it. I agree with the rest of the article...it's a clear case of victim blaming.