Professor KC Johnson has done more to publicize the plight of persons falsely accused of rape than any contemporary American, and I don't make that statement lightly. We rarely discuss Duke lacrosse here because that's his territory at Durham in Wonderland, and most anything we'd write would be superfulous. How important was Prof. Johnson's blogging in forcing the world to notice the plight of three seemingly unlikely victims in the Duke case? It's impossible to quantify, but significant. As but one indication, when the three young men were declared "innocent," Reade Seligmann thanked Johnson in a prepared statement.
In this post from yesterday, Professor Johnson notes the disturbing habit of the press to rush to judgment when it comes to rape claims -- something we constantly write about. He reports on how the press dubbed the rape accuser in the Sacred Heart rape case a "victim," and referred to the accuser as a "girl" while calling her same-aged alleged male attackers "men." He notes that a writer who uses the "victim" nomenclautre "has concluded that a crime occurred, since otherwise, how could the (unnamed) accuser be a victim?" Regarding the news outlet that seems confused about the age of adulthood for females, he wrote this: "It’s unclear if Newsday policy suggests differing ages of adulthood for males and females." Read it here: http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2009/11/victim-was-girl.html
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Rape hysteria and general attacks on men, further the gender feminist agenda.
Ah, right . . . now about this particular post: we need to step up the heat on the MSM about it's descriptions of the accuser and the accused.
The enabling of false rape accusations by women is an injustice to decent, law abiding men.
Women will continue to lie about rape until the legal system and society in general start to take false rape seriously.
RM
Women / girls will continue being enabled to lie to our courts..As long as the gender feminist / law enforcement ,misinformation Alliance continues.
It may in fact be the more christian conservative states who challenge this "gender feminist agenda" , and challenge this unconstitutional "Alliance" first.
My son's girlfriend said something that struck me as pretty profound the other night -
She said she preferred friends from stable two parent homes.
Kids from divorce were " spoiled and blamed everyone else for their faults".
My first reaction was "what a mean thing to say"....until I really started to think about it...
The news media has evolved from an information service where the reporters and anchorpeople told people the latest news, as well as following up on past reports. Now they are seen as celebrities.
Of course they enjoy their precious constitutional protections while defaming the innocent as well as the guilty.
this guy's Duke blog is pretty good - especially since he's been sticking with it from the beginning (in 2006) - it is important that we "never forget" (just like they say about the Holocaust.)
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