We don’t live in a rape culture, but we do inhabit a culture saturated with gender propaganda. Call it a Ms.Information culture. And nowhere is Ms.Information more rampant than in the area of sexual assault. On this week’s episode of the Factual Feminist: The two biggest myths about women and sexual violence:
Read moreThe great campus rape hoax
An excerpt from this article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/14/campus-rape-uva-crisis-rolling-stone-politics-column/20397277/ Americans have been living through an enormously sensationalized college rape hoax, but as the evidence accumulates it’s becoming clear that the entire thing was just a bunch of media hype and political opportunism. No, I’m not talking about the Rolling Stone’s lurid and now-exploded fraternity gang-rape story. Whatever the…
Read moreYoung men’s guide to campus secessionism, part 2
by Ron Collins @framersqool August 31, 2014 An excerpt from this article: http://antimisandry.com/blogs/rof-l-mao-esq/713-young-mens-guide-campus-secessionism-2.html ….Consider an America with each college or university functioning as its own nation-state, where laws and their applications – literally from one side of a street to another – are subject to differing and contradictory authority: On one side of that street, anywhere…
Read moreBacklash: College men challenge ‘guilty until proven innocent’ standard for sex assault cases
An excerpt from this article: http://washingtonexaminer.com/backlash-college-men-challenge-guilty-until-proven-innocent-standard-for-sex-assault-cases/article/2551863 Kevin Parisi is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and barely weighs 120 pounds. He’s hunched over and walking with a cane after back surgery earlier this year. He suffers from severe anxiety and digestive disorders, along with extreme allergies and panic attacks. But in his junior year at Drew…
Read moreDue Process, Clarity Suffer As Feds Tackle Campus Sexual Assault
An excerpt from an article written by Robert Shibley, an attorney, is Senior Vice President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). On Tuesday, the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault unveiled its first report. Created after a record number of complaints filed by students against universities about their handling…
Read moreVerbal or Written Permission Could be Required For College Sex
You’re in the heat of the moment, rounding third, but then you must stop and ask, Can I have your verbal or written consent to have sex with you? Sounds quite unspontaneous. But a law co-authored by L.A. state Sen. Kevin de Leon would have state-run college campuses establish an “affirmative consent” standard for its…
Read moreWhen You Are Wrongly Accused
From this website: http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/217 When You Are Wrongly Accused – Dr. Phil False accusations and gossip can destroy lives, even if the accused is innocent. If your reputation is under attack, Dr. Phil has advice on taking your power back: Accept that there is no way you can erase what has happened. Even though the…
Read moreDoes Hookup Culture Hurt Women?
An excerpt from here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/15/does-hookup-culture-hurt-women.html NOV 15, 2013 10:00 PM – BY PEGGY DREXLER Women say they’re happy having no-strings sex, but new research casts doubt on how ’empowering’ casual trysts really feel. In the current season of Parenthood, Berkeley freshman Drew develops a crush on a girl in his dorm. He tells her how he feels, but she…
Read moreThe Hookup Culture
The “hookup culture” on college campuses has been discussed a lot in recent years, with a particular focus on female students. Are women being empowered by the ability to pursue casual sex just like men, or exploited by a false ideal of liberation that ignores their romantic desires? Read more here: http://feedly.com/k/12YFnXt
Read moreHooking Up
I’d love to get the same group of women together at age 35 to see how they feel about “hooking up” then.
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