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Trauma and Truth: The feminist movement has shifted the definition of rape to include regret
City Journal ^ | October 7, 2018 | Heather MacDonald

Posted on 10/07/2018 2:30:00 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left

Even before the sexual revolution destroyed the norms that once governed the male libido and that steadied the relationship between the sexes, sex was the realm of ambiguity and indirection. The #BelieveSurvivors contingent asserts that survivors rarely if ever lie about their experiences—meaning, they rarely make those experiences up out of whole cloth. This assertion is mostly true; in most cases of alleged campus rape, something did happen between the accused and the accuser. The issue is how to classify what happened. (To be sure, there are rapes that go unreported, but there are also outright fabrications, such as the Rolling Stone University of Virginia campus rape hoax....). The #BelieveSurvivors movement claims unique authority to interpret women’s experiences, even if that means ignoring a woman’s own classification of her experience as not rape.

The rest of us need not accede to this assertion of monopoly interpretive power. Our booze-fueled hook-up culture has made relations between men and women messier than ever, leaving many girls and women with pangs of regret—but those regrets do not equal rape. If we were actually in the midst of an “epidemic of sexual assault,” as New Jersey senator Cory Booker asserted the evening of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, we would presumably have seen women and girls take protective actions, such as avoiding frat parties and flocking to single-sex schools. None of those protective actions has occurred, however. Either women are too clueless to avoid patent danger, or the epidemic of sexual assault is a fiction. All evidence points to the latter conclusion. Judge Brett Kavanaugh may be the latest male to have his life torn apart by that fiction, but he won’t be the last.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; feminism; kavanaugh; liberalism; liberals; mediawingofthednc; mentaldisorder; mgtow; nonplayercharacter; nonplayercharacters; npc; npcs; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; pua; rape; redpill; sex; smearmachine
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Interesting article, mostly about the drunken "hook up" culture on college campuses and how many feminists have been trying to grossly distort what happens. This is not directly related to the Kavanaugh issues since (I maintain) probably nothing whatsoever occurred between Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford, but the article does raise some interesting points about the extent to which feminist agendas are distorting the understanding of contemporary society.
1 posted on 10/07/2018 2:30:00 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

It won’t stop there. The crime of the future will be “intent”. Even Jimmah Cawtuh would be in big trouble because he lusted in his heart...

Though crime, imagined crime, made-up crime, actual crime - leftists don’t see much difference, just believe the woman.


2 posted on 10/07/2018 2:34:05 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Trauma and Truth: The feminist movement has shifted the definition of rape to include regret

Mind games and word games is what The Left is selling.

3 posted on 10/07/2018 2:34:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

Who started the sexual revolution in the 60’s?


4 posted on 10/07/2018 2:35:24 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
Maybe in America. It looks to me that Europe, despite its fatal faults, still gets it (at least among white people). As much as I disdain May and Merkel, they've never claimed victim-status as a woman. Probably because of their Parliament system in which they rise from lowly worker to leader instead of being boosted into positions of power from an electorate far removed from power.

How far we've come since Ibsen's groundbreaking, earthshaking “A Doll's House.”

5 posted on 10/07/2018 2:37:32 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Don’t look, don’t touch. Don’t even think about looking or touching.


6 posted on 10/07/2018 2:38:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: bigbob

George Orwell predicted this in “1984”. The actionable prosecution is based on “thoughtcrime”, even if it is never once voiced. Something in the furtive manner of the perpetrator of such a “thoughtcrime” was reason enough to bring an indictment and almost certain verdict of “Guilty”.


7 posted on 10/07/2018 2:42:48 PM PDT by alloysteel (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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8 posted on 10/07/2018 2:43:50 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

“#BelieveSurvivors”

Are we permitted to be skeptical before it is determined that they are indeed survivors? And then we believe everything they say? No matter what?
Feminists are the best evidence that women are irrational and unfit to participate in the political arena. I did say evidence not proof.


9 posted on 10/07/2018 2:45:25 PM PDT by all the best
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To: all the best; Trump_the_Evil_Left
"Feminists are the best evidence that women are irrational"

Nope. Feminists are the best evidence that feminists are irrational."

Reconsider your generalizations.

"...and unfit to participate in the political arena."

Nope. Factor in the 30 million American women who voted for DJT.

Reconsider your conclusions.

10 posted on 10/07/2018 2:56:59 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What people will submit to, equals the exact measure of injustice which will be imposed upon them.)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

And then women complain about not being able to find Mr Right. They have scared all the decent ones away!


11 posted on 10/07/2018 3:00:08 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

The “Rape replaced by Regret” became the norm on college campuses and in Obama’s military. Everyone else is finally catching on.


12 posted on 10/07/2018 3:03:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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We continue to ignore that impact of underage drinking on this subject. Schools and parents have given up any attempt to control it.


13 posted on 10/07/2018 3:07:52 PM PDT by Oldexpat (C)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Took them long enough. The anti-Clinton crown has been playing that card for what 30 years.


14 posted on 10/07/2018 3:12:10 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: bigbob
Though crime, imagined crime, made-up crime, actual crime - leftists don’t see much difference, just believe the woman.
Only if it advances their narrative. (see Juanita Broadrick or the ex-girlfriend of Keith Ellis)
15 posted on 10/07/2018 3:16:46 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Before they played the Race Card. Nowadays, liberals play the Woman Card.


16 posted on 10/07/2018 3:34:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: all the best

There are men who vote democrat as well. Are you going to ban them from voting as well and declare all men as being unfit for the political arena?

And you do realize that when you broad brush women like that, you include ALL CONSERVATIVE women as well, don’t you?

And militant feminism is not representative or all women any more that metrosexual men are representative of all men.


17 posted on 10/07/2018 3:35:30 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: all the best

Attitudes like yours are exactly what fuels feminism, FWIW.


18 posted on 10/07/2018 3:36:10 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: bigbob
Though crime, imagined crime, made-up crime, actual crime - leftists don’t see much difference, just believe the woman.

It's got nothing to do with gender and everything to do with political affiliation.

It's only believe the woman if she's a democrat and she's accusing a republican.

Any other scenario and it's dismissed with the bottom of the heap being a republican woman accusing a democrat politician.

19 posted on 10/07/2018 3:39:05 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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(I maintain) probably nothing whatsoever occurred between Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford
The preponderance of the evidence is that Ford’s testimony of her memory of 1982 is a conscious construction designed for a purpose, rather than a memory of an actual event. Alone, the fact that nobody corroborates any of her “memory” makes it highly improbable that it is a memory of a real event.

It could be a “recovered” memory - it came out of a psychanalysis session, after all - but the chances of that sort of thing being probative are on the order of buying a winning Lottery ticket.

What we know for sure is that the Democrats have exploited her tale for all it was worth - and doubled down with even more outrageous claims. The Democrat’s handling of this thing cries out for investigation. And, IMHO, prosecution.


20 posted on 10/07/2018 3:40:58 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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