The "Acceptable" Ruin Of Men
Since due process for accusations of sexual assault has been removed from California campuses, men's lives can be ruined by a mere accusation.
In an Ashe Schow piece at WashEx -- "California continues descent into campus sexual assault madness" -- she reports that community colleges are about to join in:
Now the state wants to allow community colleges to expel students for sexual misconduct even if the accuser isn't a student and the alleged incident occurred off-campus.This would bring community colleges -- which generally have fewer resources -- in line with traditional four-year universities in California, which already abide by this law. Currently, community colleges must expel or suspend a student only if the behavior was directly related to college activities.
The California legislature on Monday sent the bill to Gov. Jerry Brown, a leading proponent of putting more responsibility on universities for handling sexual assault accusations.
Yes-means-yes policies already define sexual consent in a way that will lead to more students being accused of sexual misconduct for non-criminal activities.
What this means for men who are accused -- and note that this doesn't mean that they're necessarily guilty -- is that they're being shut out of any sort of future...on the strength of mere accusation alone:
As one male student told Buzzfeed: "At first I thought they didn't want me to participate in campus activities. Then I thought they didn't want me to graduate. Now they don't want me to have a job or be part of society. Do they want me to commit suicide? Is that what they want me to do? What is the endgame?"
No one who is truly for equal rights and fairness can be in favor of what's happening on college campuses right now, with the removal of due process from men.








Yes. Kill yourself. Only women are qualified to run businesses, nations, even the world, and the Patriarchy, of which you are a member even if you do not know it and regardless of what you speak, is the only thing keeping that from happening.
Radwaste at August 19, 2015 10:25 PM
Consider the above comment that recommends suicide. This person isn't kidding. And people *are* commiting suicide as a consequence of public shaming. Am I the only one that finds comments like this repulsive? This new low of moral depravity frightens me.
Ccziv at August 20, 2015 12:20 AM
The solution seems readily obvious to me.
Restore the use of men's only universities. Do not accept public funds from the state or federal authority.
Restore the creation of men only clubs and organizations, which exist as private nonprofit organizations sustained by dues paying members.
If the problem is that women cannot bear to be treated as adults...and due process is not possible because women cannot bear the burden of having to prove allegations...
Then simply create a space where the problem does not exist.
Robert at August 20, 2015 3:30 AM
No one who is truly for equal rights and fairness
IOW, about 1.3% of feminists
dee nile at August 20, 2015 3:46 AM
@ Robert:
Damn straight. We gave 'em the vote in 1920 and we've been taking on water ever since.
But seriously, it does seem as if hyper-sensitive, over-educated, aimless women are stacking the deck.
Canvasback at August 20, 2015 4:15 AM
I don't think Rad would encourage someone to commit suicide. I'm probably his least favorite person on this blog and he never told me to do that.
Patrick at August 20, 2015 4:54 AM
P.S. Wait until this starts to affect black men in college.
Canvasback at August 20, 2015 5:48 AM
I'm going to have to amend the rules I've written about previously for men attending college. Here is the new rule #1:
1. Don't attend college in California.
Cousin Dave at August 20, 2015 6:17 AM
And yeah, Raddy was being sarcastic, but he has a point. Actually, as postmodern/premodern Western society moves to systematically exclude men, you know what starts looking attractive to them? Radical Islam.
Cousin Dave at August 20, 2015 6:19 AM
Do they want me to commit suicide? Is that what they want me to do? What is the endgame?
Potentially, yes.
And more than a few will choose "suicide by cop", after first dropping their accuser(s), and then moving on to some Title IX coordinators that made their lives a living hell.
If you keep telling someone they're a monster, eventually they'll come to believe, and then act in the manner of which they believe a monster behaves.
Ye have sown the wind, ye shall reap the whirlwind.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 20, 2015 6:37 AM
Reading that Buzzfeed link: Kevin's "crime" wasn't the sexual texts. No, his "crime" was that he dared to disagree with Melanie on making Frats co-ed.
And, since he didn't toe the party line, then the accusations started - even going back 4 years prior to dig up old stuff!
Not unlike the old Soviet Union, if you don't agree with the party then you must be found guilty of something. Their favorite accusation was that you were crazy and needed to be committed to an insane asylum. So, some folks today prefer to accuse others of sexual assault/rape.
I'm not saying that this is the underlying cause of every false accusation on campus; but, it seems to be the case with Kevin's accusers.
charles at August 20, 2015 8:06 AM
"This person isn't kidding."
It bothers me that you are so far from reality to take that comment seriously, even absent knowledge of my comment history!
Realistically - a regime of thought seldom visited, if that comment is to be believed - there is no number of suicides, of any class of people, which would bring the putative scenario to pass.
And Patrick is right (this time). I would never wish him harm, even as I may consider frequently that his purpose is to serve as a media tool, to illustrate a fallacy or perhaps provide a bad example... ;)
Radwaste at August 20, 2015 4:50 PM
The rise of alternative educational pathways for men can't come soon enough. Not only will this free men, it will hasten the decline and fall of the university gulag as we know it.
Lastango at August 20, 2015 10:44 PM
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