Colleges Acting In Loco (Helicopter) Parentis
Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen write at Reason (in a broader piece) about some of the infantilization of younger generations that continues after they leave their helicopter parents and go on to college:
Under many of the new college consent rules, even the whiny entreaties of a would-be lover are considered so coercive as to negate the other person's ability to say no. Northwestern University, for example, expelled a student for "sexual assault" because he used "'emotional and verbal coercion,' apparently because [he] requested sex more than once that evening." On a similar note, a Title IX training slide at Boston University cites merely "poor communication" between college students as an example of something that can render sex nonconsensual.College consent rules that operate like this do not jibe with what the average American understands when he or she hears that someone committed--or was victimized by--"sexual violence." As a result, branding students as campus sex offenders, as if this were truly "sexual violence," amounts to a death knell for future educational and career prospects, even when the underlying conduct is not remotely criminal.
Occidental College, for example, expelled a student for having sex with a woman who was supposedly too drunk to consent, despite the fact that she texted him before the encounter to ask, "do you have a condom," and texted another friend, "I'm going to have sex now."
Brandeis University threw a student off campus and permanently branded him as a sexual offender after his ex-boyfriend complained, among other things, that he occasionally woke him up "by kissing him" and "looked at his private areas when they were showering together." Brandeis' special examiner determined that the complaining student "was not strong-willed or forceful enough" to stand up to these supposed onslaughts and condemned the ex-boyfriend for "serious sexual transgressions."
Meanwhile, the new campus sex rules give college students the message that they cannot be expected to rebuff cajoling or pressure, or to take proper responsibility for choices made under the influence of alcohol. The inflated statistics also make many of them fearful that sexual violence is much more common than it is.
There are probably a few friends you'd want in the cave with you if the apocalypse comes. Chances are none of them are people who were raised to be like this.
We're in big trouble.








Imagine paying $40K per year to live under this.
Oh, wait: the authors of this "study" don't even mention the fact that this is all a very expensive "opt-in."
No one has to "opt-in" for this, much less be dumb enough to pay for it. Instead, we get weepy essays about how unfair it all is, rather than the obvious: Don't play their game, and you don't have to play by their rules — and you'll save a boatload of cashish by doing so.
Kevin at May 21, 2020 12:31 AM
We're in big trouble.
There are still plenty of people not going to college who are a bit tougher than that. HK Prep (aka, the School of Hard Knocks) is still in business, and hands out free lessons.
Don't play their game, and you don't have to play by their rules — and you'll save a boatload of cashish by doing so.
Isn't "cashish" a controlled substance, especially if imported by the boatload?? ;-)
I R A Darth Aggie at May 21, 2020 8:11 AM
These "emotionally coerced" victims are in for a very rude introduction to the real world once they leave the nursery known as college.
Jay at May 21, 2020 9:11 AM
These rules seem to be based on a model of human sexuality that is not based on any real people. Women can be ambiguous about whether they want sex or not. They may want it but feel guilty at the same time. Men can be ambiguous about whether they have or want an emotional attachment. One party or the other may decide after sex that they are "in love" or conversely are done. Communication between men and women is universally confused. Women can be quite turned off by the guy overtly asking for sex. Women on campus are encouraged to view the college as a romance cop which is crazy. Getting your feelings hurt is not assault, it is something everyone goes through.
cc at May 21, 2020 10:58 AM
Strong and independent adults, or retarded children bereft of agency? Choose, and bear the consequences thereafter. The former earn and deserve respect. The latter can never earn respect, nor can they ever be trusted -- they can only be protected from their own incompetence and frailty.
Jay R at May 21, 2020 2:28 PM
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