Posted on 12/10/2014 9:59:01 PM PST by smoothsailing
Sorry this column is late. I got raped again on the way home. Twice. I should clarify -- by "raped," I mean that two seductive Barry White songs came on the radio, which, according to the University of Virginia, constitutes rape.
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT!
Even the feminist-whipped media parted company with Rolling Stone magazine over Sabrina Rubin Erdely's story about an alleged fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia -- since retracted.
But while dismantling every part of this preposterous rape claim by a woman Rolling Stone calls "Jackie," journalists rush to assure us that "sexual assault at colleges and universities is indeed a serious problem," as an article in Slate put it.
It would be as if Republicans responded to the apocryphal attack on McCain volunteer Ashley Todd in 2008 by saying, "Physical assaults on McCain volunteers by Obama supporters are indeed a serious problem."
If we're in the middle of a college-rape epidemic, why do all the cases liberals promote keep turning out to be hoaxes? Maybe I'm overthinking this, but wouldn't a real rape be more persuasive?
Instead, all the hair-on-fire college rape stories have been scams: the Duke lacrosse team's gang-rape of a stripper; Lena Dunham's rape by Oberlin College's "resident Republican," Barry; and Rolling Stone's fraternity gang-rape at UVA. Two of the three were foisted on the public -- and disproved in public -- only in the last few weeks.
The only epidemic sweeping the nation seems to be Munchausen rape syndrome. What's next, college noose hoaxes?
Even Lady Gaga recently claimed she was raped, although, she admitted: "I didn't even tell myself for the longest time." How do you not "tell" yourself you've been raped?
Rolling Stone's fantasist rape victim told The Washington Post she didn't report her rape or go to the hospital because "she was new to campus and unaware of the resources available to her."
Unaware of the "resources"? Has she heard of "911"?
Who doesn't report a brutal crime? I had my right arm sawed off by an attacker several years ago, but I was unaware of the resources available to me, so I never pressed charges. I didn't even admit it to myself until several years later.
Although Jackie had spoken about her rape at a "Take Back the Night" rally, she told the Post that if Rolling Stone's Erdely hadn't approached her, "I probably would not have gone public about my rape."
Except for being imaginary, Jackie's rape should have been easy to prove. In addition to the fact that she would have been a bloody mess, it was supposed to have happened at a fraternity. That narrows the suspect pool down from "anyone who was in the Charlottesville, Virginia, area on Sept. 28, 2012" to "40 specific guys, 20 percent of whom are, by definition, guilty of rape."
The zealots aren't backing down from Jackie's Lifetime Movie-of-the-Week rape fantasy, even as every single part of it is proved untrue. Her "close friends," The Washington Post reports, insist that "something traumatic happened to her."
Similarly, Rolling Stone authoress Erdely told Slate, "There's no doubt in my mind that something happened to her that night" based on "the degree of (Jackie's) trauma." After all, she's been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and is taking antidepressants!
Another explanation for her trauma is: Jackie is a nut. Have you considered the possibility that your protagonist is out of her mind?
(The fact that Erdely is an "award-winning" investigative journalist tells you everything you need to know about modern journalism. Of course, her one award was from Rape Hoax Monthly, which should have been a tip-off.)
College must be difficult for white, straight coeds, because it's so hard to be a victim. You're not black, you're not gay, you don't have leprosy -- what can you do to acquire victim cool? Join the rape club!
On college campuses, two millennia of Anglo-Saxon law has been scrapped in deference to sexual assault doctrines that would embarrass Chairman Mao. Young men's futures are being put in the hands of the most closed-minded, reason-free, quick-to-accuse, unfair, standardless humans on Earth.
I'm sorry we were popular in high school! Can you stop accusing us of rape now?
In penance for publishing a book that falsely accused Oberlin's Barry of rape, Random House offered to pay his legal fees, suggesting that his law firm "donate all of the crowd-funding raised (to sue Random House) to not-for-profit organizations assisting survivors of rape and sexual assault."
Heads: rape hoax hysterics win; tails: men falsely accused of rape lose. How about donating it to organizations that assist survivors of false rape accusations?
The main threat to college students' physical and emotional safety these days comes not from athletes or fraternity members, but from the feminists.
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Is Mrs. Maher still on the innermenet ?
Thought she faded away to being a Faux news intern or somethin’.
Wasn’t she working as an intern for “Senator” Al von Frankensteen ?
“Fake but accurate. It does not matter if the story is true. Article after article is now about rape. It is simply a device to get the subject on the front page. Period. The next step will be pushing new laws, rules, etc. based on a lie.”
And the whole issue of what constitutes “fair and equitable” law enforcement is an analog. It’s like “we don’t really have a case by case description of “excessive force,” but somehow we are expected to “know it when we see it.” The matter, like rape is “issue driven” by each “side,” and the truth gets thrown under the bus. Seems as though we have devolved into everything being “political.”
No, but Bill Clinton was.
Meanwhile the suspension of fraternities at the University of Virginia remains in effect. The female president of the school remains committed to reforming the fraternity system. Never let a real or fake crisis go to waste.
I had my right arm sawed off by an attacker several years ago...
Love it.
This is the type of hyperbole that the Left regularly uses and their followers accept as fact.
WE need MORE in the media skilled at this...
As the man said: “Fine now where do I go to get my reputation back?”
Didn’t Ted Kennedy go to UVA for Law School?
Who bought and read “Fifty Shades of Grey”—women or men?
While there are a number of women-only universities, male-only universities are extremely scarce. Elite universities went coed in previous generations, and almost all the rest followed suit. Maybe it is time to create numerous male-only educational institutions at all academic levels. To help the men focus on learning, let us prohibit women from all parts of campus in any capacity.
We don't need man hating University presidents, faculty, campus cops, cooks or bottle washers. By keeping man hating speakers off campus, a nurturing environment for gentlemen can develop. The former folks can keep their hatreds away, publicizing or hiding them in the Hyde Park of their choice. Besides protecting the decent 99.999 percent of men from malicious abuse, intellectual investigation into the women's movement and women's programs could be done from a variety of perspectives. That would bring a true diversity of thought to campus.
Unfortunately the Equal Employment Opportunity Act is going to prohibit eliminating women from campus.
...”The main threat to college students’ physical and emotional safety these days comes not from athletes or fraternity members, but from the feminists.”...
So very true!
I was thinking Bill Clinton.
The evil, rapey white male and the evil, shooty white cop.
As best I can piece together, the victim is uncomfortable with the truth of the “assault” so she created a new story. So while she still believes she was the victim of sexual unwantedness, the actual story would raise skepticism in almost everyone.
That’s why she created this wacky narrative.
“It does not matter if the story is true”
Remember, the issue is never the issue. The issue always the revolution.
The author of the RS piece expressly admits that she targeted UVA because it “lacked a radical feminist culture.”
IOW, UVA lacked an on-campus revolutionary cadre. So they 1.) needed to be punished and 2.) needed to be incentivized to stand one up. Look at the placards held up by the “protesters” who occupied the fraternity’s front porch. They weren’t about rape or justice ... they were about organization building.
I want to say Harvard, but you may be right. He got tossed from Harvard undergrad for cheating on a Spanish exam. Daddy got him back in.
I regret to confirm that Ted Kennedy did, indeed, graduate from the University of Virginia Law School.
When the Albemarle Co. (VA) courthouse was being renovated several decades ago, someone opened an old desk drawer that had a handful of citations for traffic violations that the sheriff had hidden. Both Bob and Ted Kennedy were notorious party guys when they were in law school at UVA.
Another illustrious alum of the UVA law school is Sheila Jackson Lee (1975). She was born 18 years after Ted so they weren’t there at the same time.
You left out the one where she’s been recently spotted at 3 AM wandering the streets in magic poopy underpants dragging a sack of cheeseburgers behind her.
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