‘Withholding Sex’ Now Considered ‘Sexual Violence’ at University of Michigan

National Review ^ | 09/27/2014 | Katherine Timpf

[SeekAndFind]

The University of Michigan has released a list of relationship behaviors that it considers violent and abusive — including “withholding sex.”

“Discounting the partner’s feelings regarding sex,” “criticizing the partner sexually,” and “having sex with other people” are also examples of “sexual violence,” according to the list.

The school also offers definitions of domestic abuse. Under the section for “verbal or psychological abuse,” it states that not only is “insulting the partner” considered “abuse,” so is “ignoring the partner’s feelings.”

Janet Bloomfield, social media director for A Voice for Men, explained the dangers of such broad definitions of “violence” in an e-mail to the College Fix.

“When things like ‘withholding sex’ and ‘ignoring a partner’s feelings’ are framed as a pattern of behavior that is abusive, they are not only pathologizing normal relationship behaviors, but they are opening the door for vindictive or spurned partners to make allegations that can have profound effects for the accused,” she said.

[lurk]

If collectivism were bottled, the label would read You Must; You Must Not.

[Zathras]

This won’t go anywhere because its unlikely women could be labeled the “Victim”

[stars & stripes forever]

Will chastity become vogue again?

[GeronL]

Chastity is now also “sexual violence”

[Mike Darancette]

I was constantly brutalized in college. Who knew?

[bgill]

Sounds very muzzy. Old men forcing themselves upon little girls without regard for their feelings.

Who does UM think they are in making this ridiculous rule? One would think a publicly funded university would have to follow the laws of the state. I may be presumptive but I doubt any of that horse hooey is anywhere in the state laws.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That girl is not guilty and I would be proud not to withhold anything from her.

[octex]

That girl is not guilty and I would be proud not to withhold anything from her.
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I think Katherine Timpf is making fun of the Univ/Mich. in her article. ..........She sometimes is a guest on “Red Eye” and is very funny and a quick wit. She’s also one very good looking young woman!!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

I meant the Eurasian girl in the photo.

[Talisker]

On whose side? Both the female and the male?

Of course not, silly. No rule can contradict the First Rule or the Second Rule: 1) Females are never wrong, and 2) Females are always the victim.

[Teacher317]

“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”

[Impy]

Only if the man does it? Or either way?

[Fightin Whitey]

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

[KSCITYBOY]

Rational thought has left the planet.

[Flick Lives]

Good Orwell quote. I hadn’t heard that one before.

[equaviator]

“Minds in the gutter, soft as butter”...and it goes on.