[SteveMcMahon]

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From Rugby Road to Vinegar Hill, we're gonna get drunk tonight
The faculty's afraid of us, they know we're in the right
So fill up your cups, your loving cups, as full as full can be
As long as love and liquor last, we'll drink to the U of V
—"Rugby Road," traditional University of Virginia fight song

So what?

I sang much worse songs with the rugby team boys in high school and university. Including ones about tampon factories and kicking girls in the snatch and one that included the lusty refrain "rape, rape, rape the bitches!". I also learned some very politically incorrect songs in the army.

Number of girls who got raped as a result: zero.

Songs like these are just boys being boys, revelling in male bravado. It's crude and it's immature and it's intentionally offensive, but it's also harmless.

It's like gangsta rap or death metal. Gangta rap doesn't make young men more likely to get into a shootout with the police. Death metal doesn't make young men more likely to sacrifice people to their dark lord, Satan.

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Related: The Campus Rape Epidemic

Related: there is no campus rape epidemic, as has been explained at great length elsewhere. There is a moral panic about campus rape and "rape culture".

Regrettably, rape happens. So does murder and child abuse and all sorts of other crimes. But it isn't common. There is no epidemic. There is no culture in universities that is pro-rape.

Just like previous moral panics, like the satanic panic of the 1980's, the campus rape moral panic is bullshit. It's a false narrative spread by hysterical people with an agenda.

And the author of this piece, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, has an agenda too.

She writes emotional, politically slanted stories like:

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In Michele Bachmann’s home district, evangelicals have been waging war against gay teens. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back

Really? Sounds like bollocks to me. But in one paragraph she reveals her worldview: Tea Partiers (boooo!), Christian fundamentalists (boooo!), "waging war" against "gay teens" (boooo!), suicides (in the tear-streaked imaginings of the SJW, gay teens are always killing themselves because of evil Christian conservatives, it's amazing any survive to become gay adults).

The same story had this gem of a quote, also from an anonymous source. Erdely quotes anonymous sources a lot, they're always very articulate and dramatic:

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GAY STUDENTS DON’T FEEL SAFE,” SAYS ONE EDUCATOR. “THEY’RE BULLIED, SHAMED, AND NO ONE STANDS UP FOR THEM BECAUSE TEACHERS ARE AFRAID OF BEING FIRED.”

Again - really? This sounds like the exact opposite of what I like to call "reality".

So that gives you a flavour of what the authoress is all about. Back to her "rape culture" story.

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"Shut up," she heard a man's voice say as a body barreled into her, tripping her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table. There was a heavy person on top of her, spreading open her thighs, and another person kneeling on her hair, hands pinning down her arms, sharp shards digging into her back, and excited male voices rising all around her. When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. The men surrounding her began to laugh. For a hopeful moment Jackie wondered if this wasn't some collegiate prank. Perhaps at any second someone would flick on the lights and they'd return to the party.

"Grab its motherfucking leg," she heard a voice say. And that's when Jackie knew she was going to be raped.

She remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony, during which, she says, seven men took turns raping her, while two more – her date, Drew, and another man – gave instruction and encouragement. She remembers how the spectators swigged beers, and how they called each other nicknames like Armpit and Blanket.

As the last man sank onto her, Jackie was startled to recognize him: He attended her tiny anthropology discussion group. He looked like he was going to cry or puke as he told the crowd he couldn't get it up. "Pussy!" the other men jeered. "What, she's not hot enough for you?" Then they egged him on: "Don't you want to be a brother?" "We all had to do it, so you do, too." Someone handed her classmate a beer bottle. Jackie stared at the young man, silently begging him not to go through with it. And as he shoved the bottle into her, Jackie fell into a stupor, mentally untethering from the brutal tableau, her mind leaving behind the bleeding body under assault on the floor.

Now, I'm not saying this didn't happen. But it sounds remarkably convenient to the overarching "rape culture" narrative. Much like the famous Duke lacrosse hoax, or like a Law and Order script.

I'm not saying it didn't happen. But I bet it didn't.

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Two years later, Jackie, now a third-year, is worried about what might happen to her once this article comes out.

So... she was brutally gang raped by a jeering crowd of fraternity boys in the middle of a crowded party. Not one single person contacted the authorities. Her friends talked her out of reporting it because they feared not being invited to future rape parties, and here we are two years later, without a scrap of physical evidence and no witnesses coming forward to corroborate her story.

Allegedly she told the Dean nearly a year after the alleged event. The police have never gotten involved.

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But like most colleges across America, genteel University of Virginia has no radical feminist culture seeking to upend the patriarchy. There are no red-tape-wearing protests like at Harvard, no "sex-positive" clubs promoting the female orgasm like at Yale, no mattress-hauling performance artists like at Columbia, and certainly no SlutWalks. UVA isn't an edgy or progressive campus by any stretch.

So here we have a possible motive for this story. UVA needs to be forced to get with the SJW agenda.

But of course, they already have:

http://wgs.virginia.edu

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Women, Gender & Sexuality is an interdisciplinary program in which students study gender and sexualities with an emphasis on transnational perspectives.
By examining social issues, literary, scientific, and historical materials, students develop a critical, socially engaged sense of how gender and/or sexualities shape and are shaped by the world around them. Topics range from women’s political participation to body politics to lesbian/gay parenting and transgender concerns. Courses currently being offered focus on women's media, literature, and art, women in sports, queer theory, gender politcs, and LGBTQ Studies.

We're supposed to believe that a University that runs courses in Feminist and Queer Anthropology is some sort of rape factory where frat boys gang-rape girls without any censure.

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One in five women is sexually assaulted in college

No they aren't.