Column: Parents, use this Lady Gaga video to talk to your sons about rape
Can’t find the right opportunity to talk to your son about rape? Lady Gaga is at your service.
The superstar singer has just released an incredibly moving video for “Til it Happens to You” — a song recorded for The Hunting Ground, a documentary about rape on college campuses. The video already has been viewed more than 7 million times on YouTube.
I am so grateful to Gaga for using her extraordinary platform in this way. As the mother of a daughter who will someday go off to college, the statistics — that one in four to five college girls will be sexually assaulted during her college career — are as frightening as they are maddening.
Because if you are the parent of a boy between the ages of 11 and 18,
Lady Gaga has just given you a golden opportunity to discuss this all-too-important subject. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but what you say today has the power to alter the course of a young girl’s life.
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