Posted on 09/27/2018 11:53:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Deborah Ramirez was sexually assaulted at Yale. That part, she’s sure of—she was on the floor, drunk and incapacitated, when a man exposed himself. As she struggled to get up, he thrust his genitals in her face, causing her to touch his penis. Bystanders allegedly taunted her to “kiss it.”
Then, it gets murky. Ramirez spent six days “assessing her memories” to determine whether the penis in question belonged to Brett Kavanaugh. She wasn’t sure. Apparently, it could have been anyone’s.
Many people wondered why Ramirez needed six days to “assess her memories” about such a bizarre and offensive incident. For answers, I suggest reading the 2012 book "Sex and God at Yale" by Nathan Harden.
Yale is governed by “leftist ideologues and free-love social revolutionaries," as Harden calls them. And at Yale, sexual assault isn’t a rare, unforgettable event. It's common.
I interviewed Harden in 2012 after reading his shocking expose on the sexual climate at Yale. An entire section of Harden’s book is titled “Yale’s War on Women.”
Yale women are constantly degraded on campus. Watching hardcore porn in class is often required. Female students are encouraged to take part in “porn star lookalike” contests during “Sex Week,” the biggest event of the school year.
The most shocking event Harden described was a screening of pornographic films in the Yale Law School. (Yes, the law school Kavanaugh and Ramirez attended in the 1980s.)
I interviewed Harden in 2012 after reading his shocking expose on the sexual climate at Yale. An entire section of Harden’s book is titled “Yale’s War on Women.”
Yale women are constantly degraded on campus. Watching hardcore porn in class is often required. Female students are encouraged to take part in “porn star lookalike” contests during “Sex Week,” the biggest event of the school year.
The most shocking event Harden described was a screening of pornographic films in the Yale Law School. (Yes, the law school Kavanaugh and Ramirez attended in the 1980s.)
In the mid-2000s, Yale made headlines for a string of incidents involving fraternities. Young men marched around campus chanting, “No means yes, yes means anal” and carried signs declaring, “We love Yale sluts.” The hostile, threatening environment brought Yale under federal investigation for gender discrimination.
“Ironically, by advancing a morally unbounded notion of free speech, Yale may actually be silencing women,” Harden writes. “No student wants to come across as a prude or a killjoy. If women are publicly demeaned, some will be less likely to feel empowered to speak up for themselves in the public arena. For this reason, Yale has taken a position that is utterly incompatible with the notion of women’s equality.”
And, of course, this hostile climate didn’t materialize out of thin air in the 2000s. It existed in the 1980s, when Ramirez’s alleged assault happened.
But from all we’ve learned about his life, it seems Brett Kavanaugh was an outsider to Yale’s culture. He attended a Jesuit all-boys’ school, where he was taught Catholic values like chastity and sexual restraint. Kavanaugh is adamant that he didn’t just talk the talk, but walked the walk, remaining a virgin throughout high school and “for a long while after that.” As Harden noted throughout his book, students like Kavanaugh are often ridiculed and treated like pariahs on liberal campuses. Does anyone remember the case of the five Orthodox Jewish students who petitioned Yale for permission to move off-campus, saying the sexually depraved atmosphere in the dorm was hostile to their religious values? Yale said no—and the students were widely mocked for being “narrow-minded” and judgmental.
From his and countless others’ descriptions of his life, Brett Kavanaugh has much more in common with those Orthodox Jewish students than with the students running around Yale naked, listening to “educational” lectures from porn industry honchos during “Sex Week.”
After Ramirez came forward, 600 women who graduated from Yale University between 1966 and 2018 signed a letter supporting her.
“We are coming forward as women of Yale because we have a shared experience of the environment that shaped not only Judge Kavanaugh’s life and career, but our own,” the open letter states.
In a way, they’re right: Yale’s environment does encourage sexual assault. In an environment like this, students—who face enormous peer pressure to participate in this free-for-all—have trouble saying “no” when they want to. Other students simply don’t respect a “no.”
When pointing fingers, perhaps Yale students and alumni shouldn’t be so quick blame all-boys Catholic schools or “white male privilege.” Instead, they might want to take a closer look at the left-wing sexual revolutionaries running the place.
That’s how long it took to deliver Soros cash.
I went to a couple parties at Yale in the mid 80’s…they were lame. Apparently the interesting ones were happening elsewhere.
-——”Sex and God at Yale” by Nathan Harden-——
That last name is one vowel off from being a most unfortunate word, in the context of the story....
You don’t assess your memories, especially those about an alleged sexual assault/abuse, by sitting down with a lawyer. As the Republican prosecutor stated today, the first thing that is recommended in cases with memory recall of sexual assault, is to sit down to a one-on-one, extended session with a qualified expert, where the “victim” does the talking. A lawyer is not a qualified expert to do this, and anything that came out of those six days should not be accepted as fact. Dr. Ford’s lawyers never recommended that she undergo such one-on-one sessions. Instead, they advised her to get a polygraph.
One thing that is much overlooked in the culture changes is the exit from so many institutions of the generation that came of age before the Vietnam War and their replacement in far too many cases by college educated leftists. An easy way to improve your chances of not getting drafted was to get a college deferment, thus post BS/BA programs had a strong over-representation of anti-war types. Many of the anti-war activists were barely hiding their communist sympathies (probably would not have succeeded at all without a sympathetic press). These left wingers hostile to the values of their upbringing, took control of institutions as their often quasi traditional and somewhat left wing elders retired/died.
The left projects. Always.
Most of the worst womanizers I have known - including my brother - were “liberals”: For liberal, substitute libertine.
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