Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Rope Bridge: A Parable for College Men (Who Do Not Commit Sexual Assault)


You're hiking near the village of Husaini in Pakistan and you come up to the Borith Lake. The only way across is a rickety old rope bridge.  It doesn't look strong enough to hold you, and you're having some serious doubts about this. 

You look to your guide, who's had lots and lots of experience with rope bridges.  He tells you with both a smile and the utmost sincerity, "I'd give it a better than even chance that you'll make it across."

"Better than even chance" you think!  "So there's -- what? -- a 49 percent chance that I won't make it across?!!"

I'd say that's more than a little doubt; that's substantial doubt.

Are you going across that bridge? 

Let me answer it for you: not a chance in hell. I know you -- you don't take risks that huge about important matters.
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Well, young man, the Obama administration, for one, is willing to take a risk with you, about something pretty damn important, too. It is willing to let you be expelled from school -- and have your future forever marred -- if you are found responsible for committing sexual assault, even though you didn't do it, and even if they have substantial doubt about whether you did it. 

Read that last part again. It's not hyperbole.

If you've been hiding under a rock since last spring, or playing too many video games, or studying female anatomy a little too intently on the Internet, you may not know that the Obama administration changed the law last April 4 for colleges: if you are accused of sexual assault while attending college, even if you are factually innocent, the school needs to find only a slightly better than 50% likelihood that you did it in order to expel you. Good luck getting into a good school, much less going to grad school, if that happens.

You see, when it comes to your life, they have no problem taking a substantial risk that the school might just get it wrong. They're willing to let you go plummeting into that river just so they can be sure they are catching all the real bad guys. You are collateral damage in their more important war on rape.

Don't take my word on it. Read about it here.

10 comments:

Axel said...

We need to work on the GOP candidates to have this reversed when Obama is booted out.

ScareCrow said...

...If Obama is booted out.

The self-preservation instinct in men - young men - will over ride their instinct to pursue women on college campuses.

I would wager a guess that this will make college campuses more dangerous for young women, as their best protection from "real rapists" is to hang out with the young men.

Also notice, this is sexual segregation of a sort too.

Back to the dark ages anybody?

All this thanks to the enlightened, modern and evolved "feminists".

Anonymous said...

Hetero-purging.

Anonymous said...

I wish I remembered the article but there was one awhile ago talking about how traumatized women were bc there are now so much less males at universities. They seriously went on to discuss how since there were less males the dating roles were almost reversed. So guys didn't have to chase girls and buy them drinks and take them out to dinner bc there was such an abundance of them. They went on to describe how unfair and emotionally traumatic that is to girls and some never found the strength to get over not being coddled all the time after they graduated.

It's the par for the course women wanting frozen fire. When men are around they're evil and have to be persecuted bc the women are traumatized. When men are not around to serve women then they're still traumatized for not being put on pedestals and having everything done for them.

Rocco said...

And people think, oh well, I'm a nice guy, no way a girlfriend will get that pissed off at me....

Well, IMO it won't be you or your girlfriend. It will be one of her friends, family or the resident director at her dorm.

You see all you have to do is have sex with a girl that get's drunk. She doesn't even have to be drunk at the time your with her, it could kick in later or she could drink later.

As long as she appears wasted and admits to sex with you your a rapist and that's all you are you peace of sh@t so stop smelling up this campus and get back home to McDonalds and your future as a handy man, because no college will take you now, smelly.

This is what the new law says, think I'm kidding? Think again.

Anonymous said...

Proposal would ban accused rapists from driving cabs

And what happens if a police believe they have enough evidence to charge a cabbie with rape but it turns out he was innocent?

Traini replied with a question of his own.

“How often does that really happen in the real world?” he said. “It doesn’t happen that much. My concern is public safety.”

I’d like to hear what cab drivers – and their customers -- think of the proposal. Call me at 257-4334 or email khopkins@adn.com if you’d like to talk.

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Anonymous said...

Anon, I have also heard that since society does not encourage male scholarship and achievement like it does females, young men feel college is "just not for them" anymore.
At some universities 2 out of every 3 students are female, and yes, this is changing the dating dynamics to a staggering degree.
Girls looking to find a man in college; are left with the option of finding another girl, or finding nobody.
Dramatic sexual/social re-engineering are under foot, and I predict soon, the college girls are going to start to rebel against the gender-feminist constructionists.

Anonymous said...

They say they're using the standard of the preponderance of the evidence as would be used in most civil cases but in reality they're not even using that. Even if you had only to show that something was more likely (51%) you still have to prove that in court with evidence. If a female claims that she was raped and could provide no other evidence other than her word, and the man claims he did not rape her than that's a wash. No real evidence has been provided and even by the preponderance of the evidence you couldn't win that case.If some crazy jury awarded a judgement here the judge would have to vacate it or it would be lost on appeal.These college committees are really acting like a kangaroo court because they are generally biased against the male and unlike a real court the "defendant" cannot challage any juror for bias. What you really have here is not even at the level of the preponderance but merely some female accusing a male with no other evidence and some biased committee deciding based on who's the better actor.Sort of like that maid who is still swearing up and down that she was raped even though the cops showed by examining the videos,door key records etc that she was lying.This female will put on the same act if there's a civil case but none of her acting is evidence.Does anyone trust some college committee to decide these cases?

Anonymous said...

ScareCrow, there is no rape on college campuses committed by male students. The VERY few that have occurred were usually by men from the nearby town whcih may be an area with crime. Yale is a good Uni but is located in New Haven which is sort of dumpy and where there is crime.

Anonymous said...

Rocco-the problems with the new lawsis that things like sex between a husband and wife or even boyfriend/girlfriend who are having sex with each other were never put in the rape category.I you were having sex with someone how could 1 particular time be considered rape? It's insanity and is being used to control men in the new police state and these 2 types of "rape" must be removed from the books. And incapacitated always meant someone who was unconscious not merely someone who was drinking.
I know that some people don't like terms like "she was asking for it" but in reality many females are asking for it by their actions. Don't behave in certain ways and then there will be no doubt as to our wishes. Don't behave in ambiguous ways that are only likely to confuse men, especially young inexperienced men who may really believe that you desire sex.