If you have someone heading to college, it's a MUST read.
If you don't have time to read it all now, print out a copy for future reference.
The victimization of women (and using college campuses to carve this notion in stone) is a cause celeb for the White House, the Department of Education, the Dept of Justice, Title IX, and feminist groups.
I imagine many people have jumped on one bandwagon or another in an emotional knee-jerk way because they don't have much information and/or haven't followed the history of how college sexual conduct is currently being adjudicated on campus -- believing that if they merely put their finger into the politically polluted air of liberal media bias, that they will be politically correct (and safe) -- ignorantly (and dangerously) believing that being PC is all that is necessary to address (and be prepared for and comment on) this frightening phenomenon.
If this is all some BIG issue...fine, let’s fix this. Remove colleges from handling this, and just hand the rape case over to the local prosecutor and let them use real state laws to handle the situation. The idea that college chancellors are somehow in the middle of this? No. Let the legal system handle what it’s built to handle. Same way with the military rape reports....hand it over to state prosecutors, and federal prosecutors overseas.
Rape is a horrible crime. You don’t pretend to have been raped to get attention, nor do you pretend to have been raped in order to get revenge on a person. I think people who falsely accuse others of rape deserve to be fined and receive jail time. It’s an insult to anyone who has ever been raped, and it makes it harder for society to take rape seriously. Furthermore, it can destroy the reputations of those who are accused. Even if you’re proven innocent, people will still stigmatize you and treat you as if you are, indeed, a rapist.
This sure hits home here in Virginia where Rolling Stone Magazine appears to have failed to provide a minimum level of competence in the gang rape accusation at University of Virginia. The university leadership and even state legislature are out in the streets looking for young single males to “lynch”.
Do you see the insanity of this? On one hand feminists want full equality with men to the extent that justifies same sex marriage, that justifies women serving on submarines, fire fighting teams, and in combat roles.
On the other hand women admit that they are the weaker sex and want special protections? The want government provided birth control, abortions, and special treatment.
As a result we have chaos thanks to feminists with disordered minds.
These show “trials” on campus give a window into the way Leftists would run a judicial system on a larger scale, if given the power. You would be guilty based on “white male privilege”; end of story. Off with your head. This is madness, and the only way to stop it is to sue the pants off universities that think they can destroy anyones constitutional rights.
It’s the AL Sharpton 1st step in a career of socialist rabble rousing.
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.
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!