That's a pretty grim picture, wouldn't you say? But is it surprising, given that the Tribune set out to write the piece after hearing from the frustration of rape accusers who claimed they couldn't get justice?
The Tribune proceeded to act as their advocate, and to treat them as actual victims.
Chuck Haga, a reporter for the Grand Forks Herald, discussed the Tribune's survey in a story published yesterday, and pointed out the following fact about it, which is as disappointing as it is unsurprising: "A summary of the report posted on the Tribune’s website did not address the question of false accusations."
It's not surprising because -- and there is no delicate way to say this -- progressive news outlets often side with the rape accuser. Further, progressive news outlets are content to report on the prevalence of rape by relying on surveys designed to reach the conclusion that rape is rampant, including the "study" relied upon by the Department of Education in issuing its April 4 "Dear Colleague" letter (the letter that made it much easier to find men guilty of sex offenses on campus) which found that about one in five college women are victimized by a completed or attempted sexual assault. What's not well known about that particular "study" is that it was the product of self-selecting respondents.
For cases that are actually reported, however, the number of claims resulting in an adjudication of guilt is far lower than the number yielded in such studies. Why is that? Even the Tribune conceded the following: "By their very nature, campus sex crimes are difficult cases to investigate and prosecute. They often involve alcohol and conflicting accounts on whether the physical interaction was consensual, making it difficult for law enforcement to sort out the truth."
While conceding that pesky credibility disputes are inherent to sexual assault claims, the Tribune can't bring itself to state the obvious: in likely most sexual assault cases, we really don't know what happened, but it's reasonable to suggest that for a fair number of such claims, and perhaps a significant number, there was no actual sexual assault.
It trivializes rape to suggest in the abstract that not enough women are getting "justice" without talking about specific cases, and it does a grave injustice to men and boys accused of rape. Merely because a woman claims she didn't get justice doesn't make her a victim, but you'd never know that reading the nation's leading dailies.
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"Our review found that women who report sexual violence on college campuses seldom see their accused attackers arrested and almost never see them convicted."
Besides false accusations, and true accusations where there wasn't enough evidence, it also ignores the difference between what is reportable on campus and criminal law.
Even ignoring that "sexual violence" is this nonsensical umbrella term that includes things that are neither sexual nor violent, colleges have rules against sexual conduct that is simply not illegal. So even if the accuser is telling the truth, and the police believe her story, it does not necessarily mean that there would be any basis for an arrest.
The same goes for that Department of Education SLOP survey. What these feminists are eager to count as "rape" is absurd.
They get to college and are indoctrinated to believe they are entitled to lie about rape and to call anything rape and anyone a rapist.
By constantly baraging young American males with the accusations and inuendoes that all hetero-sexual males are rapists, it does something psychologically to them.
It "Breaks" them. Many older American males wander what happened to the younger generation of American males??? Folks, these young men are "psychologically castrated", Broken, by the ceaseless barage of propaganda from the American news media "constructionists".
This "psychological castration" of American males by a constant media barage of faulty and inflamatory agit-prop should be against international laws. Didn't the Nazi's do similar psychological castration shit to "Break" the resistance of the average German??
Femi-Nazi!!
I think there's something to what you say. Men below a certain age - and it might be 40 or 45 -- are the first generation(s) of males in history who've been taught to be ashamed of being male, that male-ness is somehow inherently flawed, that males are given resources disproportionate to the their entitlement, and that young men need to act "against type" in order to be decent people. While most young men can't articulate what I've just said, the entire culture sends those messages in all sorts of different ways, and it can't be healthy.
Archivist, i read somewhere that in lab experiments, constantly shocking mice with an electric shock while its trapped in its cage, will eventually leads to the mouse being resigned to a state of defeatism and helplessness, and will stay curled up in the corner of his cage long after the shocks stop.
Everytime the media insinuates that men and boys are beaters and rapists (when rape is the most shocking thing a boy could possibly imagine), this sends a sort of psychological shock wave through his system.
Over time, just like the mouse in the lab, the young men fall into a state of helplessness and shock. "Psychological castration".
@Anon and Archivist,
I think there is a fair amount of truth in the claim that a lot of men today have been psychologically castrated, and are simply too beaten down by all this to really fight back anymore. Over the last few decades there has been an endless drumbeat of propaganda along the lines that men are essentially evil victimizers, morally inferior, that males enjoy vast unearned privilege and resources, that men are to blame for all the world's ills, that everything typically male (hobbies, occupations, sexual desires, sports, whatever) is inherently bad, abusive and destructive.
For those of us who have come of age in the last few decades, it is as though misandry has been the wallpaper or background noise to our existence. This must have an impact on society and general psychology. For one, it must surely take its toll on the self-worth of many men and boys. It's funny how some people seem puzzled as to why, for instance, male suicide rates are so much higher than for females and getting higher. When you consider how the message is constantly reinforced that males are vile and worthless, what else would anyone expect?
I suspect that this is all part of a deliberate plan for social control. The elites realize that if the males in society are sufficiently marginalized and demoralized, there will be fewer people to offer resistance to their policies and changes to the order of things. Women never represent a threat to those who wield power, as they have a greater tendency to simply go along with fashionable views and please authority figures, and will always side with anyone that offers temporary, illusory, security.
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