The sexual revolution and “if it feels good, do it,” have given some young men the idea that they are entitled to get drunk and have sex. This has lead some to commit rape.
Since the cultural “authorities” do not want to admit this, guess who gets blamed. Men.
It’s true that everyone is responsible, and should be held responsible, for his/her own behavior, But those who have made hedonism a cultural priority also have to be held to account.
And then, there are the women. Blaming the victims? If the victim bears some responsibility, then the victim is partly to blame. A woman should have the right to expect that she can walk down the street half naked and not be raped, but, as Walter Williams once said, if you park your car in the worst neighborhood in town, leave the doors unlocked, put your wallet and car keys on the roof and walk away, it’s still wrong for someone the steal them, but, stupid acts bring about stupid results.
In other words, feel free to send young men into the university sexual assault Star Chamber if they don’t ask for and get verbal permission to take every single action they make when having sex, or if you said yes but were drunk and now are having second thoughts.
“”While we believe that the federal government has an important role to play, we also know that the government alone cannot stop violence on campus,” Cole said on Thursday. “It is essential to develop campus-based coordinated responses that include campus victim services; campus law enforcement; health providers; housing officials; administrators; student leaders; faith-based organizations; student organizations; and disciplinary boards. “
Translation from NewSpeak:
Attempts at criminal prosecution of so-called “date rape” have been uniformly unsuccessful, therefore it is necessary to employ extra-legal, fascist techniques outside of criminal law to enforce whatever it is we decide should be enforced against whomever it is we choose to enforce it against, all with a patina of judiciary fairness with which to veil the kangaroo courts that we will be using to do all of this with.