Yesterday she was gripped in an emotional paroxysm of rage at what she perceived to be the trivialization of violence against women. More specifically, the news coverage from some sources interpreting what has come to be called "rape culture" that seems to pop up aggravatingly within the halls of academia with some male students apprehended in juvenile fantasies appearing to regard their female student counterparts as bait for the realization of those violent imaginings.

That in an age where society has finally focused on a high awareness of the power imbalance between men and women, with programs designed to give women greater confidence and men greater understanding of equality and respect. That there remains such abysmal holdouts where young men in group-think feel it is perfectly all right to be sexual predators is disheartening to say the least.

In our conversation of yesterday, emotionally charged in her outrage against the phenomena and peoples' propensity to invoke the 'boys will be boys', rather than 'boys should grow up' on their way to becoming men argument, we turned to consoling one another, and casting blame on familial environments where young boys pattern themselves after those closest to them, acquiring all the attitudes of male dominance.

And then came a following news story, where one of five male predators who had targeted the female president of the University of Ottawa student federation in a Facebook conversation -- in a salacious, disgustingly verbally graphic back-and-forth threatening her with rape -- was the son of a highly respected local police chief.

The young woman in question had received an anonymously-dispatched email containing the five-way Facebook conversation, and she courageously confronted the five men, all fellow student leaders within the student federation. Expressing her anger and disgust, she spoke in no uncertain terms of her feelings. They apologized, while citing privacy and intrusion into their privacy, assuring her that no real harm was meant to come to her; just boys spouting off.

When she indicated she was appalled at their behaviour and considered their response inadequate in explaining their attitudes and meant to go public with it, they then threatened her with a lawsuit that would turn on their right to privacy which she was invading. The absurdity of the situation doesn't appear to have occurred to them, that they were victimizing a female student counterpart twice over.

The son of the local police chief, whom his father in private anguish, reached out to the public to ask that his son be given some space, was on the cusp of graduating from his criminology course, following in the footsteps of his father who had in his time taken the same course at the same university. And he was one of two men who had verbalized the most seriously violent sexual fantasy, interpreted as an incitement to rape.