It’s the age of digital promiscuity where everyone it seems is swiping left and right, but it turns out the people who are the real problems in establishing what’s acceptable on campus are those still mired in the analogue world.
That’s right, people age 64 and up, about the age of most institutions’ senior officials.
Previously, I opined that maybe the young men and women on campus would be needing a new kind of sex education in this era when “no means no.”
Turns out that there is a new generation gap and the lead offenders are likely not the students but their elders.
YouGov and The Economist did a survey of 1,000 Americans Nov. 4, and asked: “Would you consider it sexual harassment if a man, who was not a romantic partner, did the following…”
The choices were “looking at breasts,” “placing a hand on the lower back,” and “commenting on attractiveness.”
Of course, females over males generally thought it was always or usually inappropriate. But the surprising difference was that younger males, 18-30 were always more prudish and respectful than those horn dog males aged 64 and up (not my demo).
