[abelardx]

Boys need good women around them to become good men, and girls need good men around them to become good women.

We men should be policing ourselves. If you see this happening, step up and tell them it's not OK. Just stop them, it's that simple. This isn't a women's issue, it's a people issue.

[VLM]

About 90% right but rather than being divisive, as in forming or expressing division or distribution, you could just summarize it as "its a being civilized issue". As in you shouldn't act like a zoo primate, regardless of who is doing what to which gender, etc.

What those cons need is need is a bunch of moms and grannies not just young hotties (and no this is not blame the victim, keep reading) In that old women are a instinctual effective civilizing influence on young boys who are operating at a lower mental age for whatever reason. A stern glance from an old grannie is, oh, probably about 100x more effective at intimidating a jerk than a strongly worded article in Marie Claire. I'm sure that an entire nation of drunken childish frat boys is quaking in their boots knowing that Marie Claire magazine is not so happy with them. The presence of some father figures would help too, fathers of daughters of roughly the age of the harassed hotties tend to be kinda protective. I have no idea how a PR campaign "Take yer mom and grandpa to Defcon this year" would work.

Who would ever have guessed that it takes a cross section of all of society to act civilized, that some kinda weekend long lord of the flies re-enactment doesn't result in the revival of medieval chivalry or the revival of the womens lib movement or whatever.