But as I clawed my way through the horse dung of op-eds this morning, I came across a piece that was at once so lucid, so perceptive, and so true, it made it all worthwhile.
First, let me give you a taste of the horse dung.
Awful Caitlin Flanagan (you might remember her from this article we wrote) wants to shutter all frat houses for the protection of women. Flanagan reminisces about her college days and, in words dripping with misandry, recalls seeing the fraternity houses for the first time: "They are built of the same Jeffersonian architecture as the rest of the campus. At once august and moldering, they seemed sinister, to stand for male power at its most malevolent and institutionally condoned." Flanagan's piece is not an op-ed. It's pathology in news ink, with a massive circulation.
Or how about Drew Terhune, who gushes: "Sexual violence . . . is much more than an interpersonal crime. It's socially motivated . . . ." Sigh. Um, that's correct, Drew. But not for the reasons you think. The vast majority of rape is related to poverty and -- brace yourself, Drew -- fatherlessness. See here. Sorry, Drew, if that doesn't fit with what I presume is your narrative of white-lacrosse-jocks-as-rapists.
Shashwat Samdura wrote that "[s]exual assault needs more attention on college campuses." Right. So do lightning strikes.
Then there's this article, which quotes college administrators who brag about how their internal (higher) numbers of sexual assault are more reflective of reality than the Clery Act numbers. According to the school's internal numbers, 112 women reported being sexually assaulted in 2009, out of a campus of more than 20,000 women. Hmm. Let's see. Over four years that works out to 448 reports, which is about 2.2 percent of all college women reporting they were sexually assaulted during college. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's still a far cry from 25%, isn't it?
Isn't it?
But then I came across law professor Ann Althouse's take on the Flanagan article, referenced above. You need to read the whole thing, but I'll highlight one part.
Prof. Althouse quotes it: "A 2007 National Institute of Justice study found that about one in five women are victims of sexual assault in college; almost all of those incidents go unreported."
That's too much for Prof. Althouse. Read her next paragraph slowly, and then read it again. It is spot-on and brilliant:
"How did they find it if it was unreported? Much of life is ugly but not criminal. If it's a crime report it. If it's not a crime, what was it? What are these statistics that get thrown at us constantly? I've been seeing them since 1988 when 'I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape' was published. Over the years, college women have learned to call it rape, but why haven't they learned to report it, if it is rape or some other crime? You can chose to think of something bad that happened as a crime but are you willing to hold your opinion up to the judgment of officials who have the obligation to treat the accused man fairly? Almost all of those incidents go unreported. Exactly why?"
The second to the last sentence is as true as anything we've ever seen on this subject: "You can chose to think of something bad that happened as a crime but are you willing to hold your opinion up to the judgment of officials who have the obligation to treat the accused man fairly?"
You need to read the entire piece: see here.
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The one thing I cant help but feel , we are constantly told that its Mens job to stop rape, we have to take responsibility for it and end it .
By that logic every woman who doesnt report a rape puts another "potential victim" at risk from the rapist that hurt her.
That to me is equality and is needed , also as has been proven on here time and time again if feminist organisations reported accurately about rapes, rape levels and convictions more women would come forward and more would feel comfortable reporting rape. i still to this day and disgusted by groups who are willing to perpetuate lies that hurt the people the aim to protect to get more and more money .
"[s]exual assault needs more attention on college campuses." Right. So do lightning strikes.
--- That is a classic response! :)
"Over four years that works out to 448 reports, which is about 2.2 percent of all college women reporting they were sexually assaulted during college".
--- Funny, how that 2.2% number almost perfectly ties in with the feminist claim that 2.5% of all rape claims might be false. Feminists must using some new type of math that inverts results. Regardless, just because a coed reports a rape does not mean one occurred.
Many women have some type of emotional need to be seen as a victim for various psychological reasons. A feminist woman, in college, told me that if I ever talked a girlfriend into having sex when she was not 100% in the mood that is rape. So if that is rape so is a college man in a crowded bar touching a coeds behind. Is it rape when a female coed goes up to a male and gives him an unrequested hug pressing her breasts into his chest? If so then all of us men have been raped at some point.
Much of life is indeed ugly, but not criminal. That is an extremely pertinent article from a highly intelligent woman!
"Almost all of those incidents go unreported. Exactly why?"
by Prof. Althouse
Because of shame and humiliation. College rapists always count on the victim's silence, and they're usually right.
"College rapists always count on the victim's silence, and they're usually right."
That last sentence, no doubt, is correct. But college rape is rare. http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/04/college-feminists-morally-grotesque.html
Inner city rape is far more common due to poverty and the absence of male role models. http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/04/elephant-in-room-there-is-typical.html
As for why women don't report, see here: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2010/12/lies-feminists-tell-that-hurt-rape.html
How to reduce campus rape, see here: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2010/12/elephant-in-room-that-feminists-and.html
"Funny, how that 2.2% number almost perfectly ties in with the feminist claim that 2.5% of all rape claims might be false. Feminists must using some new type of math that inverts results."
That made me chuckle.
"Because of shame and humiliation. College rapists always count on the victim's silence, and they're usually right."
"That last sentence, no doubt, is correct. But college rape is rare."
That last sense is correct for the instances were rape occurs but is not reported, but the whole point of the article linked to is that is exceedingly rare. The low figures reported are merely reports of sexual assault, something that is broadly defined. We do not know how many of the reports actually lead to real findings of guilt. And of those how many were actual accusations of rape. Here is a great article on the topic published yesterday in The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/the-save-act-trading-liberty-for-security-on-campus/237833/
From all I've read on this blog, all the women I've talked to about sexual assault and all the reading I've done on the subject, honestly, women are their own worst enemy here. Why you ask?
--Evidence points to women don't report actual rapes (out of the 3 women I've talked to who HAVE been raped, NONE reported it despite all three knowing exactly who the culprit was).
--Evidence points to women reporting FALSE rapes at astounding rates
--Many women are pro-life even in cases of rape (a pro-rapist stance)
--Women are less likely to protect themselves from crime (A hardcore feminist who was deathly afraid of being raped told me she refuses to carry any defense implement on her person and expects instead for "society to change")
I could go on, but you get it. I could write an article on this.
Stownwhal
Sorry, but "pro-life" is not "pro-rapist." Many women have strong religious convictions that you obviously don't share.
As for women not reporting, sorry, I agree with Prof. Althouse: it's one thing to tell a friend "I was raped," and quite another to have the claim examimed by objective sources, and subjected to the well-honed scalpel of cross-examination by counsel for the accused. Of 100 reported "rapes," relatively few can withstand such scrutiny, and relatively few can be definitively called actual rapes with any reasonable assurance. Certainly no more than 20 percent. That does not mean that all the rest are false claims -- for most, we just don't know. That's the nature of a rape claim (he said/she said). But given that relatively few reported rape claims can be definitively called "rape," why should we believe that UNreported rape claims are somehow more reliable? Common sense suggests, if anything, they'd be less reliable.
I also think that the inflated numbers are because some of these femikook women's studies types claim that they were raped as some sort of badge of honor/solidarity...
I know it sounds sick, and it is. But I have heard (read) the "well, I was raped too" meme countless times with no evidence to back the claim up...
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