Quote: (10-15-2014 08:11 PM)Sombro Wrote:
Neo-Victorianism on Campus
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/n...?nopager=1
This article (by a woman named Heather McDonald) enraged me. And it did so despite being completely correct with respect to the facts. She recognizes them perfectly well:
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But isn’t this bureaucratic and legislative ferment, however ham-handed, being driven by an epidemic of campus rape? There is no such epidemic.
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If campus rape were the epidemic that the activists allege, there would have been a stampede to create alternative schools for girls. Instead, every year the competition among girls (and boys) to get into selective colleges grows fiercer. Sophisticated baby boomer mothers start their daughters’ preparation for college earlier and earlier. The Obama White House asserts that campus rape “survivors” suffer a lifetime of psychological and physical trauma, yet females are graduating from college in ever more disproportionate numbers, after which they go on to have lucrative careers, with no evidence of crippling mental injury. The bogus statistics thrown around by the feminist-industrial complex—a one-in-four to one-in-five incidence of sexual assault among undergraduate girls—dwarf any known crime rate, even in the most brutal African ethnic wars. In 2012, Newark, New Jersey’s rate for all violent crimes—murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault—was 1.1 percent; its rape rate was under .02 percent. Activist researchers attain their 20-25 percent rape incidence statistic by the strategic phrasing of questions and the exquisite parsing of definitions. In a 1986 Ms. survey that sparked the campus-rape industry, 73 percent of respondents whom the study characterized as rape victims said that they hadn’t been raped when asked the question directly. Forty-two percent of these supposed victims had intercourse again with their alleged assailants—an inconceivable behavior in the case of actual rape. Sixty-five percent of females whom a 2000 Department of Justice study deemed “completed rape” victims said that they did not think that their experiences were “serious enough to report,” nor did their alleged “victimization” result in physical or emotional injuries.
Despite all this, she draws the deranged conclusion that the current feminist witch hunt on college campuses has "no downside". Because apparently, even though there is no "rape epidemic", there is instead a "squalid hook-up culture", which turns out to be just as bad.
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The ultimate result of the feminists’ crusade may be the same as if they were explicitly calling for a return to sexual modesty: a sharp decrease in casual, drunken sex. There is no downside to this development.
She feels that dudes who pump and dump sluts are apparently so bad that they deserve "no sympathy" (even though she realizes that their lives can be destroyed for that reason!)
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There are no sympathetic victims in the campus sex wars. While few boys are guilty of what most people understand as rape, many are guilty of acting as boorishly as they can get away with. Sexual liberation and radical feminism unleashed the current mess by misunderstanding male and female nature. Feminists may now be unwittingly accomplishing what they would never allow conservatives to do: restoring sexual decorum.
And her blithe prescription to solve the problem? Easy, dudes and sluts should just stop drinking and fucking each other. What's the point of doing that anyway, right? After all, "conservatives" know it's bad, and so do "progressives", so we have everyone in agreement on this point. Just stop it...
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But the solution is not more complex procedural protections cobbled over a sordid culture, the solution is to reject that culture entirely. Just as girls can avoid the risk of what the feminists call “rape” by not getting drunk and getting into bed with a guy whom they barely know, boys, too, can radically reduce the risk of a rape accusation by themselves not getting drunk and having sex with a girl whom they barely know. Mothers worried that their college-bound sons will be hauled before a biased campus sex tribunal by a vindictive female should tell them: “Wait. Find a girlfriend and smother her with affection and respect. Write her love letters in the middle of the night. Escort her home after a date and then go home yourself.” If one-sided litigation risk results in boys taking a vow of celibacy until graduation, there is simply no loss whatsoever to society and only gain to individual character. Such efforts at self-control were made before, and can be made again.
To which I say: HAG. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Fuck you and your "conservative" ideas if, knowing full well that there is no "rape epidemic" and that guys are being expelled and their lives ruined on the basis of false accusations, you fail to see any "sympathetic victims". Fuck your stupid hagcunt that monstrously chatters about how an imagined "vow of celibacy until graduation" by "boys" -- "boys" -- is "no loss to society".
I've said it many times -- fanatical progressives and feminists are the ones driving this witch hunt, of course, but many "conservatives" are more than happy to join in, one way or another. There is a disgusting shared
prudery, a mincing fear and hatred of sex and of pleasure. And there is a frightening shared disregard for individual human lives and fates, a terrible willingness and even hunger to break the very same human eggs to make some (supposedly different) social omelets. The progressives are even worse, of course, and they are the ones in the driver's seat; but there is plenty of the same on the supposed other side.