Topic: Liberal Fascism
That there exists on America’s university campuses something called “rape culture” is a feminist doctrine that only a bold man would question. Because it’s not simply doctrine—it’s a principle of Ingsoc, a never-to-be-questioned dogma that to doubt or criticize exposes the skeptic to charges of oldthink, if not crimethink.
Well, that was the situation until yesterday, when Rolling Stone’s shocking expose of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity blew upin that ridiculous magazine’s editorial face.
But why the surprise? We’ve been here before, after all. Any time campus feminists and their media enablers have a shot at a group of privileged young white men who happen to be white, they take it. Just ask certain former members of the Duke University lacrosse team. So now, in the face of Rolling Stone’s well-deserved humiliation, we’re bombarded with pious reminders that, er, well, maybe this story isn’t true—but so many others are! Quite frankly, this is a claim that strains credulity.
The uproar over campus rape is largely based on a leftie con game: defining sexual assault down. Here’s a typical scenario. A female student gets blitzed at a party and has sex with an equally blitzed male student whom she just met. Next morning she wakes up feeling remorseful and used—which she was—and decides, with the hearty backing of the campus feminist establishment, that she was raped! Usually no charges are leveled against the young man concerned—but the young woman has made herself a statistic, very serviceable to male-bashing radical feminists. This is how the claim that one in five women on campus have been sexually assaulted. It’s as bogus as a 2008 Obama campaign speech.
I can’t help but wonder what young women who actually have been raped on campus—it happens, of course—feel about these frivolous charges, and about such fairy tales as the one retailed by Rolling Stone. You’d think that they’d be pretty damned upset…
