Free Republic

‘Two, four, six, eight. Stop the violence. Stop the rape.” So chanted a group of Ohio University students calling themselves “f***rapeculture” at a protest a couple of years ago. Rape-culture activists have become a fixture on campuses throughout the country, and now, 55 colleges — including Harvard, Princeton, and Berkeley — are under federal investigation for mishandling sexual-assault complaints. Some of my conservative/libertarian sisters have pointed out that the statistics on sexual assault are wildly inflated. Christina Hoff Sommers notes that the “one in five women are victims of rape” statistic that the Centers for Disease Control popularized (and that...

DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire is investigating a possible case of discrimination in which a male student says he was asked to leave a public feminist poetry event where women wore scissors on their necks and talked of castrating rapists. But one of the student organizers of the event says the man was asked to leave because he was a journalist for a student paper — "not because he is a man" — and that some women wanted to be anonymous when sharing personal stories that included experiences with rape. UNH senior David Huffman, 22, of Hollis, said...