Posted on 12/08/2014 1:14:24 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".....Any woman who is raped, on campus or off, deserves a fair and thorough investigation of her claim, and those found guilty should be punished. But the new rules—rules often put in place hastily and in response to the idea of a rape epidemic on campus—have left some young men saying they are the ones who have been victimized. They are starting to push back. In the past three years, men found responsible for sexual assault on campus have filed more than three dozen cases against schools. They argue that their due process rights have been violated and say they have been victims of gender discrimination under Title IX. Their complaints are starting to cost universities. The higher education insurance group United Educators did a study of the 262 insurance claims it paid to students between 2006 and 2010 because of campus sexual assault, at a cost to the group of $36 million. The vast majority of the payouts, 72 percent, went to the accused—young men who protested their treatment by universities.
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I’ve read through the court filings and investigative reports of a number of these cases, and it’s clear to me that many of the accused are indeed being treated unfairly. Government officials and campus administrators are attempting to legislate the bedroom behavior of students with rules and requirements that would be comic if their effects weren’t frequently so tragic. The legal filings in the cases brought by young men accused of sexual violence often begin like a script for a college sex farce but end with the protagonist finding himself in a Soviet-style show trial. Or, as in the case of Drew Sterrett, punished with no trial at all......
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Have you been following the story of Lena Dunham on Breitbart, and here on FR?
The decay of our popular culture has removed the ideas of modesty and seduction - shattered ordinary, normal relations between men and women (who are, despite protestations from progressives, different). Children are being sexualized at a shockingly young age. Much of this cultural rot was sped when Bill Clinton brought oral sex into the oval office and the public square.
I went to an all-women's college, with all of the strict rules you describe concerning dorm and campus life. What's impossible to describe to anyone who hasn't experienced it is that the rules gave us much more freedom than current students experience.
Title IX is being used like a hammer by the Federal Government. All colleges are running scared.
I went to a Title IX briefing this year. Was told that any faculty member OVERHEARING talk about sexual misconduct was obligated to report it. Now think about that one. Faculty are being pressed into service as snitches. So when some pseudo-teenager brags about his conquest, we have to be prepared to report it and testify about it.
Good luck with that one.
It seems to me that this kind of thing would be excellent for us Conservatives. Take a good luck at Progressive ‘Justice’ - which is anything that advances the revolution.
I do wonder, though, how this Title IX will affect drunken homosexual encounters? If they are both men, and men are to blame- according to their policy- are both parties then guilty by “preponderance of the evidence” and will both be sanctioned in accordance with this policy?
Just wondering.
Wonderful assessment, thank you!
Your last paragraph sums it up nicely. Do the feminists really want to solve the problem? There are some rather simple solutions for most of what is called “rape” on college campuses these days, and they don’t want to implement them.
My daughter graduated high school earlier this year. We visited six campuses and she actually talked about the dorm policies, the safety nets available, and the safety records of all the colleges and universities which we visited.
She decided on a private Christian college (although she has since decided to become an electrician first, then go to college - I’m okay with that).
Some of the main reasons - gender specific dorms, no male visitors after 9PM, male visitors only in common areas, in house dorm mothers, free security rides all across the campus (5AM-Midnight). It was very good to know that she was already thinking about safety and security as much as she was about partying and fraternizing!
Bump!
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