The Real Sexual Double Standard -- The Meaningful One -- Is In Sexual Assault Accusations
From Ashe Schow at the WashEx:
Across the country, young college men are being accused of sexually assaulting young college women based either solely on an accusation or occasionally on flimsy witness statements.No one is arguing that sexual assaults never happen. But the degree to which the definition has been broadened in order to "fix" the "epidemic" has ensnared many young students who are not the monsters the media would have you believe.
...If two people get into a fist fight, both can file charges -- there's no "first to file" standard. If there is a clear instigator, the charges against them might hold up better. For campus sexual assault, all that matters is who accuses -- usually the woman, especially if she has had feminist professors or Title IX coordinators help her reinterpret a drunken hookup as rape.
...Schools go out of their way to prove that men who have been accused weren't too drunk to consent but that women who are accusing were too drunk. Policies are also written to ensure there are clear guilty and innocent parties, i.e., that the accuser is innocent and the accused is guilty, despite evidence showing that both were unable to give consent.
At some point this double-standard must be addressed -- and ended.
"At some point this double-standard must be addressed -- and ended."
Yes, I agree. I should live so long to see the day it happens.
Patrick at July 25, 2015 5:34 AM
"At some point this double-standard must be addressed -- and ended."
Why? Not because I disagree, but because I wonder what the result of continuing the double standard would be.
Is it more college men convicted by a kangaroo court suing the colleges?
Is it college men refusing any relationships with college women?
The double standard must be ended for justice to be involved in the process, but I'm not sure that men are unified enough to push back against the feminists (female and male).
Steamer at July 25, 2015 11:58 AM
It is good, although very painful, that men are being given the chance to see what a horror unrestrained femininity, i.e., feminism, leads to. Forewarned is forearmed.
The other casualties? Still-decent women who will never be given a chance by self-preserving men to prove that they are decent, and who will therefore end up lonely and unfulfilled -- along with their gun-shy male counterparts.
Only women can end this insanity, but I'm disheartened to be coming to the conclusion that they won't. The unearned and undeserved power they have been handed is too corrupting. This notwithstanding the voices in the wilderness of ladies like Karen Straughan, Janet Bloomfield, Cathy Young, and last, but not least, our lovely, feisty, flame-haired hostess, Amy.
Jay R at July 27, 2015 11:54 AM
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