Peace Corps

I seriously considered joining the Peace Corps after college; it seemed a great way to visit another country while carrying the heavy burden of student loans (whenever you see people who decided to go backpacking for a couple years after college to "find themselves" they're either incredibly rich or from any other industrialized country, since none of them expect students to cripple themselves with college loans in order to get an education), but I ended up teaching ESL instead, the other workaround I thought of.

But the Peace Corps seemed like a good (if very institutional and pro-this-system) possibility. This story doesn't make that less true, but rather points to the general bullshit that our culture has about rape and sexual assault generally.

Jessica Gregg, who was drugged and sexually assaulted in 2007 in Mozambique, said a Peace Corps medical officer “made me write in my testimony that I was intoxicated” and suggested that “I willingly had sex with this guy.” She and a number of other women complained that a training video the Peace Corps uses places too much emphasis on the role of alcohol in sexual assaults...