Feminism-Driven Hippie Puritanism On Campus
Heather Mac Donald, in the Dallas Morning News from November, has a terrific piece about the absurd new feminism-driven combo of sexual liberation and sexual puritanism on campus:
The new order is a bizarre hybrid of liberationist and traditionalist values. It carefully preserves the prerogative of no-strings-attached sex while combining it with legalistic caveats that allow females to revert at will to a stance of offended virtue.Consider the sexual consent policy of California's Claremont McKenna College, shared almost verbatim with other schools such as Occidental College in Los Angeles. Paragraphs long, consisting of multiple sections and subsections, and embedded within an even wordier 44-page document on harassment and sexual misconduct, Claremont's sexual consent rules resemble nothing so much as a multi-
lawyer-drafted contract for the sale and delivery of widgets, complete with definitions, the obligations of all (as opposed to both) parties, and the preconditions for default.
"Effective consent consists of an affirmative, conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed upon (and the conditions of) sexual activity," the authorities declare awkwardly. The policy goes on to elaborate at great length upon each of the "essential elements of Consent:" "Informed and reciprocal," "Freely and actively given," "Mutually understandable," "Not indefinite," "Not unlimited."
"All parties must demonstrate a clear and mutual understanding of the nature and scope of the act to which they are consenting" -- think: signing a mortgage -- "and a willingness to do the same thing, at the same time, in the same way," declare Claremont's sex bureaucrats. Never mind that sex is the realm of the irrational and inarticulate, fraught with ambivalence, fear, longing and shame. Doing something that you are not certain about does not make it rape, it makes it sex.
As I've been saying recently, women now no longer demand to be treated like men's equals but like eggshells. More from Heather:
Females are now considered so helpless and passive that they should not even be assumed to have the strength or capacity to say "no." "Withdrawal of Consent can be an expressed 'no' or can be based on an outward demonstration that conveys that an individual is hesitant, confused, uncertain, or is no longer a mutual participant," announce Claremont's sexocrats.Good luck litigating that clause in a campus sex tribunal. The female can allege that the male should have known that she was confused because of what she didn't do. The male will respond that he didn't notice any particular nonactivity on her part. Resolving this evidentiary dispute would not be helped by bedside cameras -- the logical next step in campus rape hysteria. Pressure sensors would be needed as well to detect asymmetries in touch.
With or without cameras, adjudicating college sex in the neo-Victorian era requires a degree of prurience that should be repugnant to any self-respecting university. A campus sex investigator named Djuna Perkins described the nauseating enterprise to National Public Radio in June: "It will sometimes boil down to details like who turned who around, or [whether] she lifted up her body so [another student] could pull down her pants."
Rather than shrinking from this Peeping Tom role, college administrators are enthusiastically drafting new sex rules that require even more minute analysis of drunken couplings. Harvard, also assuming that delicate co-eds cannot summon the will to say no, now allows females unfettered discretion after the fact to allege that they were sexually assaulted by conduct they silently regarded as undesirable.








The word "no" was made ambiguous because of puritan sensibility. A woman could say "no" to preserve her honor while giving in to her desires. This has entirely confused men. Sex needs a new "safe word".
I suggest "bunny". If either person, or any one of the people, say "bunny", then all sex stops immediately. They can say "yes", "no", "maybe", "oooh", "not there", or anything else. The word "bunny" is serious, and is the new "no". And no laughing.
Andrew_M_Garland at January 13, 2015 11:01 PM
Sigh. It's so much easier just to throw the guy out of college when the girl complains 6 months later when he didn't call (or even if he did).
Bob in Texas at January 14, 2015 5:26 AM
I, for one, am delighted society is dispensing with this ridiculous notion that women are adults that can take care of themselves. Clearly, the only way women can function is by being wrapped in a cocoon of appallingly sexist legalese backed up by brutish white knights and Big Sister apparatchiks. Best of all, women's own preferences are causing this to happen. This is what they want. Come back to childhood, ladies. You've come a long way baby.
A Chauvanist at January 14, 2015 6:29 AM
Fast-forward to 2025. Japanese-made Sex Robots have been on the market for 7 years now.
Thanks to the legal environment (and the dropping price. . .), young Johnny typically arrives at college with a Sexbot now, and doesn't bother with college women, purely to avoid the legal and academic minefields.
And now a new cry goes out from Campus Women: "Neglect Rape". Not to mention complaints that all the sexbots are cute, thin, young-looking, and generally white or asian in features. . . .
Bet on it . . .
Keith Glass at January 14, 2015 6:36 AM
"Fast-forward to 2025. Japanese-made Sex Robots have been on the market for 7 years now."
Fast forward to 2015 when technologies like the Oculus Rift connected with various masturbation devices and 3-D pornography become a vastly superior option for male sexual satisfaction compared to dealing with spoiled children with adult bodies who treat men like utilities and support female supremacism.
Oh wait, that's this year! Don't say we didn't warn you, ladies.
Robot Love at January 14, 2015 7:09 AM
There is an common desire to separate rights and responsibility. Freedom from consequences is very tempting. But the reality is these cannot be separated for long. When a person has to shoulder all the consequences and gets nothing in exchange don't be surprised when they bow out of the deal. Keith above describes one way to bow out but there are many others.
And the campus sex issue is just one part. US child custody/support laws are flagrantly sexist in both content and application. Should it be any shock that men are increasingly bowing out?
Ben at January 14, 2015 7:16 AM
Even more to the point: young Johnny gets his education over the Internet, through a virtual university based in Mexico to avoid punitive U.S. taxes on for-profit education. Traditional universities, other than a handful of STEM-centric schools that haven't yet been closed down by Title IX enforcement, are 95% female, together with a handful of sociopathic men who say the right words but secretly see the women as nothing more than easy conquests. Johnny knows nothing about any of this. He does his coursework during the day, and in the evening he plays for a club hockey team, and then he goes home and entertains himself with online gaming and music. Other than his mother, he has little contact with any women. When he graduates, probably with a STEM degree of some sort, he'll either go into one of the handful of fields where American males have become concentrated (e.g., petroleum engineering), or he'll move overseas.
Cousin Dave at January 14, 2015 7:31 AM
Thanks to the legal environment (and the dropping price. . .), young Johnny typically arrives at college with a Sexbot now, and doesn't bother with college women, purely to avoid the legal and academic minefields.
And Johnny soon finds out that the college has rules about sexbots on campus. He will have the wrong kind, and will be required to buy (or rent) the right kind. The whole issue will be handled, for obvious reasons, by the college book store.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at January 14, 2015 11:24 AM
These rules apply only to man and women who attend college.
So...College men: Organize a campus-wide boycott of all college women. Date only women who do not attend college. The sex is just as good and you do not have to worry about regret sex becoming rape. No worries about being expelled.
College women: Part of going to college is learning how to cope in the real world of the dating/sexual market place. If you voluntarily accept these new rules, you will graduate into a world where all those rules no longer apply. You will have learned nothing about real man/woman relationships.
Nick at January 14, 2015 11:35 AM
Nick,
To an extent that is already happening. It is just not worth it to date a fellow student.
Ben at January 14, 2015 11:53 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/01/hippie-puritani.html#comment-5770559">comment from NickMy suggestion is that college men band together to time-share an escort.
Amy Alkon
at January 14, 2015 12:37 PM
"Date only women who do not attend college. [...] No worries about being expelled."
Until the schools start inviting rape charges from townies. I give it maybe a year.
dee nile at January 14, 2015 1:35 PM
Well SOMETHING had to kill the bloated industrial education machine to make way for something that works.
Maybe this will be it.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at January 14, 2015 9:51 PM
Hmm. Women cannot act in their own best interests to defend themselves?
I have your solution right here, ladies: the burqa.
Put it on. Instant solution. Don't worry about feeling like property. You don't have any rights if you don't take any risks yourself, especially if you refuse to let anyone else speak or act in your behalf about rights, but now you don't have to worry about rape. Except from your owner, when your helplessness flowers fully.
Radwaste at January 15, 2015 1:04 AM
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