Backlash? Hardly.
This political show will most likely result in -- maybe -- some extra protections for students accused of rape on campus. Conservatives and critics of feminists will praise this if it happens, as if a couple breadcrumbs dusted off the table of feminism is a victory. Campuses will continue to adjudicate sexual assault cases and terrify their female students with false specters of rape and sexual assault to keep them on the career track. Society wants single mothers, make no bones about it. Women exist primarily as consumers in America.
Sexual assault and rape should be prosecuted by the appropriate authorities: the police. Some comments show why feminists oppose this: they think the criminal justice system "re-victimizes" female rape victims.
Decades of reforms have dramatically changed how police deal with women who claim to have been raped: they get to interact solely with female officers, are treated with levels of compassion absolutely foreign to any other alleged victim of crime and generally have a system rigged completely in their favor. Do note that role of police at the outset replaces what families used to do. And no, its not rape culture
that causes women to not think to call their mothers or fathers first, if at all.
These are the sorts of liberals who fantasize about being born black in the 1940's and challenged de facto and de jure racism in the 1960's, not thinking of what actually what being born black in the 1940's means. In their fantasies -- we are talking about fantasies about reality here -- they are all-powerful, revolutionary and bad things that could happen to them because of their race
wouldn't happen to somebody like them. These are the sorts of people who get upset at a person getting injured at work and getting a huge payday.
I wish I could get hit by a bus and collect 3 million dollars. They fail to understand that the vast majority of blacks born in '40's were victims of structural vestiges of white supremacy and the vast majority of people hit by city buses either die or are crippled for life.
But that wouldn't happen to somebody like me!
Feminists
want female victims of rape to be miserable. Opposing rape is big business to them, so they need female victims of rape (real or imagined) in order to fill the coffers. Their proposed "solutions" do nothing to actually prevent rape or help victims. People don't need to be educated on rape and how to counsel victims, people need healthy families to draw on when things like this happen. When bad things happen to people, you know what they need? The unconditional love that springs from familial relations. True, secondary sources like spouses or friends are important, but what women who are raped need isn't some politically-charged social worker, but somebody who they know and trust to talk to and rely on.
Having been robbed at gunpoint and forced to beg for my life, I can relate to such traumatizing experiences. But you know what? What matters people in your life you can draw on as you process what happened to you. Crimes like robbery and rape have always had low clearance rates and will continue to do so long as people are innocent until proven guilty. To turn to administrative law to side-step the necessary and justified rules of criminal procedure is disgusting.