War victim Lauren Burk found death preferable to letting war criminal Courtney Lockhart rape her, though he was probably going to murder her, anyway
[Also at WEJB/NSU:
“The Campus Rape Myth”;
“According to the Obama Administration and Feminist Scholars, Coeds Get Sexually Assaulted on Campus Over 100 Times as Often as Women Not Attending College!”;
“Feminist/Eunuch U.: Wesleyan University Uses Campus Rape Hoax Hysteria to Impose Death Penalty on All Campus-Based Fraternities”;
“Read the Eye-Opening Article that Forbes’ Feminists and PC Eunuchs Sent Down the Memory Hole, and Whose Author They Immediately Fired”;
“Rape Culture: An Honest Definition”;
“Totalitarian Feminists Seek to Force Every Faculty Member in Every Class to Make a Loyalty Oath to the Over 20-Year-Old Campus Rape Hoax Culture, and the Even Older Feminist Power Structure”; and
“Obama: ‘It’s on Us’ to Spread the Lies of the Campus Rape Hoax!”]
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
This is what happens to a writer who wants to be considered both “conservative” and “respectable,” write for powerful communist media outlets, and get invited by communist/socialist/whatevers to their dinner parties. You have to turn yourself inside out, and become the antithesis of what you claim to be. You support their hoaxes, which corrupts everything you say on such topics, and causes you to lie and/or avoid saying anything of value about real problems.
Here, Douthat is offering “solutions” to a non-existent problem: White college students raping white coeds. He does not mention at all the real problem of black men raping white coeds on and off campus, and of feminists who lie about the reality, terrorize innocent white men, and empower black rapists.
If Douthat were honest, he’d point out that the non-existent “debate” on campus rape is based on fraudulent rape statistics, fake rape accusations against white men students, and on ignoring very real black rapists.
See also: “Nicholas Stix` Absolutely Definitive Account of the Incredible Disappearing Duke Rape Hoax.”
Stopping Campus Rape
By Ross Douthat
June 28, 2014
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New York Times
IN the debate over sexual violence on college campuses, two things are reasonably clear. First, campus rape is a grave, persistent problem, shadowing rowdy state schools and cozy liberal-arts campuses alike.Second, nobody — neither anti-rape activists, nor their critics, nor the administrators caught in between — seems to have a clear and compelling idea of what to do about it.The immediate difficulty is that what many activists want from colleges — a disciplinary process that leads to many more expulsions for sexual assault — is something schools are ill equipped to offer. As Michelle Goldberg acknowledges in a judicious article for The Nation, dealing with serious crimes in a setting that normally handles minor infractions risks a worst-of-both-worlds scenario: a process whose lack of professionalism leaves victims more “devastated than vindicated,” even as its limited protections for the accused lead to endless lawsuits claiming kangaroo-court treatment.
The deeper problem, which applies for courts of law as well, is that even with a near-perfect justice system, sexual assault on campus often happens in a context that by its nature defies easy adjudication. Most campus assaults involve incapacitation, usually involving alcohol, rather than brute force; most involve friends and acquaintances and partners and exes; and most women assaulted while under the influence do not themselves use the word “rape” to describe what happened. [Because they weren’t raped!] As long as these patterns persist, it is difficult to see any disciplinary or legal change that would inspire substantially more formal accusations, let alone clear and airtight verdicts.But this does not mean our society is helpless against sexual violence on campus. Rather, we’re searching ineffectively for better after-the-fact responses because we aren’t willing to deal with some of the root causes, or upset the underlying legal and cultural status quo.
[The way to deal with the fake campus rape problem is with the truth.]
As examples, here are three shifts I suspect would, in combination, do more to reduce the rate of sexual assault than any disciplinary change being contemplated. The first would require action by legislators; the other two, by administrators. Probably none of them will happen; all of them, in theory, could.First, our lawmakers could reduce the legal drinking age to 18 from 21. The key problem in college sexual culture right now isn’t drinking per se; it’s blackout drinking, which follows from binge drinking, which is more likely to happen when a drinking culture is driven underground.Undoing the federal government’s Reagan-era imposition of a higher drinking age is probably too counterintuitive for lawmakers to contemplate. [The drinking age was changed, due to pressure from insurance companies, who felt they were paying out too much on claims for car accidents caused by drivers under 21 years of age.] And obviously it wouldn’t eliminate the lure of the keg stand or tame the recklessness of youth. But it would create an opportunity for a healthier approach to alcohol consumption — more social and relaxed, less frantic and performative — to take root in collegiate culture once again.Second, college administrators could try to break their schools’ symbiotic relationship with the on-campus party scene. This is not an easy task, mostly for financial reasons: The promise of Blutarskian excess often attracts the kind of well-heeled kids whose parents pay full freight, and the “party pathway” through academe involves two intertwined phenomena — big-time sports and wild Greek life — that basically define college for many deep-pocketed alums.[What about the well-heeled coeds who make false rape accusations, and whose parents pay full freight?]
But what Murray Sperber has dubbed the “beer and circus” atmosphere around college athletics, combined with what Caitlin Flanagan’s recent Atlantic article terms “the dark power” of (some) fraternities, are the deep forces shaping the vulnerable trajectory of many campus nights. Weaken those forces, rein in their often-misogynistic excesses, and what’s lost in alumni dollars would probably be gained in lower rates of sexual violence, and a safer campus over all.[Douthat is despicably perpetuating the feminist war on frats.]
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Finally, colleges could embrace a more limited version of the old “parietal” system, in which they separated the sexes and supervised social life. This could involve, for instance, establishing more single-sex dorms and writing late-night rules that apply identically to men and women. Bringing a visitor to your room after 10 p.m. or midnight might require signing in with an adult adviser, who would have the right to intervene when inebriation seemed to call consent and safety into question.This need not represent a return to any kind of chastity-based ethic. [Then there’s no point to it.] The point would be to create hurdles for predators, clearer decision points for both sexes and — in the event that someone sneaked an intended partner in, and the encounter ended badly — a reason short of a rape conviction to discipline or expel.
[This will not create hurdles for predators, because they are aimed at young men who are not predators, and will have no effect on those who are, because the latter are not entering dorms with their intended victims. They are either raping young white coeds outside of the dorms, or wandering the dorms alone,in search of prey—think black racist predator Orange Taylor III, who raped and murdered white coed Laura Dickinson, at Eastern Michigan University, which then sought to cover up the crime.]
Colleges have gestured in this direction with programs encouraging bystanders to step in if a pairing-off seems to be turning sour or violent. But taking on a formal, chaperone-like role themselves would cut against the ideological spirit of the modern university, and no doubt would be widely denounced as puritanical, heteronormative [?!], reactionary.
Embracing such a role, though, would probably make the typical campus a place of greater safety than it is today.
[No, it wouldn’t, because it would target imaginary predators, instead of real ones, leaving the real ones free to do what they do.]
So as this [non-] debate continues, it’s an alternative worth pondering. There are ways, apart from ineffective tribunals, to reduce sexual violence on campus. We just aren’t ready to embrace them.
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As my favorite blogger likes to say,
"‘Rape culture’ is how the left blames white men for black men raping white women on college campuses.”
FK
This is the first time I have ever read someone advocating lowering the drinking age back to 18. Unfortunately, it is 1000% necessary. I was...
tom
It is very easy to stop campus rape: stop lying about it.One in five women on campus are not raped.And if we stopped redefining sexual...
Lukey
Odd that Douthat would take on this topic without acknowledging the outrage that George F. Will so deservedly met when he chose to...