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.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
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.
Mind games and word games is what The Left is selling.
Who started the sexual revolution in the 60’s?
How far we've come since Ibsen's groundbreaking, earthshaking “A Doll's House.”
Don’t look, don’t touch. Don’t even think about looking or touching.
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”.
“#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.
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.
And then women complain about not being able to find Mr Right. They have scared all the decent ones away!
The “Rape replaced by Regret” became the norm on college campuses and in Obama’s military. Everyone else is finally catching on.
We continue to ignore that impact of underage drinking on this subject. Schools and parents have given up any attempt to control it.
Took them long enough. The anti-Clinton crown has been playing that card for what 30 years.
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)
Before they played the Race Card. Nowadays, liberals play the Woman Card.
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.
Attitudes like yours are exactly what fuels feminism, FWIW.
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.
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.
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