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Best Way to Fight “Rape Culture” Hysteria? Embrace It
Reason has an article about California Governor Jerry Brown signing a bill mandating that colleges police their students’ sex lives. In addition to instituting some awful concepts of due process, the law calls for students to refrain from sexual activity until their partners give “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement… [which] must be ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can be revoked at any time.” He opines:
Some congrats are in order, I suppose? To collectivist feminists, doomsayers of the “rape is an ever-worsening epidemic” variety, and other puritans: Your so-called progressivism has restored Victorian Era prudishness to its former place as a guiding moral compass. Well done, liberals.
“Hmm,” I sez to myself. “Isn’t Victorial Era prudishness precisely the thing that social conservatives seem to want?”
After all, religious colleges also have strict codes of conduct regarding student sexuality, albeit with very different motivations than those of their leftist counterparts. What would turn progressive students against the new prudery faster than campus Republicans and campus Christian/religious clubs embracing sexual conduct regulation, and lobbying to make sexual conduct codes even more strict?
In that vein, Dan Calabrese offered the following suggestion at Caintv.com:
“Meet a girl. Do not have sex with her yet. I’ll tell you when. Get to know the girl. Let her get to know you. Do not move in with her at this point! I’ll tell you when. And no sex yet either. OK. Now, determine whether this might a girl you could commit to for the rest of your life. If so, ask her if she would be interested in such an arrangement. Not yet! Wait for it. OK, now, if she is agreeable, marry her. Spend a year planning a big wedding or elope this weekend, I don’t really care, as long as you make your commitment before God.
OK. You ready? Now . . . move in together and have all the sex you want. Follow this plan and you will not be accused of sexual assault.”
This seems like a way more effective strategy for getting progressives to step down from this particular hobby horse than the current (apparent) strategy of belittling feminism and denying that there is any real “crisis” (even if that denial happens to be true).
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Except they fired a guy from Forbes who actually went about advocating putting drunk women at fraternity parties in a cab and sending them home, because teaching men not to rape is now officially misogyny.
But if you do respect women’s agency and her right to get loaded and make bad choices, you are a dirty no good rapey s**tlord.
So, we are back to Man = Bad and all PIV sex is rape. yada yada yada.
I like it. Geese, ganders, and all that.
Nothing makes someone run faster from notions of social control than realizing it might end up in their opponents hands.
Not if you’re lobbying the men around you to remain celibate.
Think Lysistrata in reverse. “We men will remain celibate until rape culture is eliminated.”
FYI: As much as I appreciate being promoted to the main feed, I think Ricochet should ask permission from a member before making additions to their article that go beyond simple proofreading.
The only way we will win this War on Women is if we turn on women.
Do you mean “turn on women” or “turn women on?”
The speed at which barbarity re-established the marital presumption of consent is somewhat staggering -albeit under a different name and a more cumbersome system.
There may be hope for us yet.
Man with the Axe-
Yes.
Mama, don’t let your boys grow up undergrads
Don’t let ’em pick hook-ups or leave it to luck
Let ’em have lawyers draw contracts and such
Let ’em stay home and be always alone
Or buy ’em a horse and let ’em be cowboys
Welcome to California!
Are you perhaps considering the possibility of engaging in carnal relations in the Golden State? Well slow down there buddy! It would be wise have the appropriate forms signed in triplicate before proceeding, you see California girls cannot be trusted to make these decisions for themselves unless you enunciate your intentions S.L.O.W.L.Y.
So make certain you have yourself covered, get it in writing.
Mis,
“Hmm,” I sez to myself. “Isn’t Victorial Era prudishness precisely the thing that social conservatives seem to want?”
The fallacy here is assuming that the progressive solution is just as bad as the thing it is trying to correct. After Stalin’s gulag and the Cambodian killing fields I think it safe to say that progressive solutions are far worse than the thing they are trying to correct.
They will make (if not already) heterosexuality illegal and homosexuality legal & encouraged. They will solve the zero birth rate problem first with illegal immigration and then with full scale human cloning.
Doesn’t that sound more likely.
Just trying to help.
Jim
It was many years ago, but I still remember the night when I asked a college girl at a party for her consent to a sex act. I received a tongue lashing that I will never forget.
K…
You know, actually, I’m going to let that one sail over the plate.
I remember when a girl I liked invited me over to her place for sex, and was so “hurt” when I said no that I never heard from her again.
That incident taught me (wrongly) that it is very poor form to ever turn a girl down.
Charles Cooke made this exact point not long ago.
Well isn’t that special? Did Californians realize they were actually electing the Church Lady when they voted for Moonbeam four years ago?
Apparently, pre-marital sex is illegal in at least 11 states.
I wonder what the codes-of-conduct are like on those states’ university campuses…
Ummm, say, wasn’t that always the law? Or was I doing it wrong back in the 1970’s and 80’s?
Well you see. One used to be able to reasonably assume that if she initiates the sexual activity she was consenting to the activity she initiated. Not anymore.
You see, at brown university, if she says no (which you respect), and then later changes her mind and initiates sexual activity, you are still a rapist.