Seven football players try to STOP a rape.

[Demovictory9]

Demetrius Mayes, 18, has been arrested on a charge of sexual battery to a physically helpless person.

The victim told police she met Mayes at an off-campus party on Saturday and that they went back to the dorms on UCF's campus with a group of people, including several of his teammates.

She then remembered waking up to the sound of someone banging on a door and saw that she was completely naked and being penetrated by Mayes, according to the arrest affidavit.

The victim said Mayes blocked the door when she put on her clothes and tried to leave his dorm room.

Seven of Mayes' teammates saw him take the victim to his room and realized she was intoxicated.

They tried to get Mayes to stop, banging on the door and telling him he was making a 'big mistake'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6185869/University-Central-Florida-football-player-arrested-allegedly-raping-woman.html

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Me, too is getting allies from young men

I am sickened by this story but heartened by the actions of the teammates who came to the woman’s aid rather than look the other way.

[GulfCoast66]

2. We have always been there

I was in a fraternity that did not allow our fellow members to take intoxicated women to their room.

The worse beat down I ever saw was when we caught a nonmember at a party in a room trying to disrobe a passed out girl. Horrible way to handle it, I know. But in retrospect had we called the university police they would have done nothing.

I am not saying that there were not some guys who would have practiced that behavior. There were over 80 of us. But it was not the culture of the fraternity.

This was in the 80s. Lots of they guys actually went to church on Sundays(I am no long religious) and I know several were virgins. I would guess there was only one other fraternity out of 30 or so where that would have happened. Most fraternities were horrible. I generally hate them now.

And the guys that abused women at 19 will do it at 49. Of that I have no doubts.

[MaryMagdaline]

4. Your headline brought tears to my eyes.

It’s the most encouraging thing I’ve read in a long time.

(The rest of the post was also encouraging and fills in a lot of gaps).

I trusted my contemporaries when I was young. I’m glad I was able to do so.

[GulfCoast66]

5. We were hardly saints! Like most young men we wanted sex!

But even at 19 years old in 1984 we knew sex without consent was rape.

I retrosect I have no idea how that culture developed. It was long before I joined and was one thing that attracted me. And this was a SEC school; large public university. Maybe like attracts like and at some point in the 50s or 60’s we had an unusual collection of young men. Never really thought about it before.

[MaryMagdaline]

6. Non-toxic masculinity!

We need to come up with a better term but you get what I mean

[mnmoderatedem]

3. most male athletes, professional or otherwise, are good people

they tend to get press only when it's bad press. it makes for better ratings when the negative is reported..

Athletes doing good deeds, charitable deeds and such, which they do a lot, don't get good ratings. Thus the negative stereotypes.

Kudos to these young men, despite the obvious perp.