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Wesleyan: Proof That the Lunatics are Now in Charge of the Asylum
As you may have noticed, in desperation, Barack Obama and his minions are now beating another drum. There is, they shamelessly tell you, a crisis. It is a grave emergency. One in five young women on America’s campuses have been the object of a sexual assault.
It matters not that there is no evidence to support such a preposterous claim. It matters not that this would render our campuses far more dangerous for women than the worst and most crime-ridden neighborhoods in the land. Our President believes that the women of the United States are so gullible that they will fall for this nonsense, and who knows? He might be right. As the buttons worn by the harpies in attendance at the last Democratic National Convention asserted, “Sluts vote!” and let’s face it: in 2012, infuriated at the prospect that they might have to fork over $10 a month to pay for their own birth control pills, they did.
No one has with greater aplomb satirized the President’s latest ridiculous campaign than Glenn Reynolds (better known as Instapundit), as you can see for yourself:
There is now, however, a new wrinkle — something that not even Glenn foresaw. The lunatics in charge at Wesleyan University — who are, I realize, hard to distinguish from the lunatics now in charge at every traditional liberal arts institution (apart from Hillsdale College, St. John’s College, Thomas Aquinas College, and handful of other, similar institutions) — have hit a home run. They have announced that the fraternities on the campus must go coed within the next three years or close their doors.
Pause for a second and consider the following. There is a basis — fraudulent, to be sure — for President Obama’s absurd claim. An awful lot of young women on American campuses are getting inebriated and are late in the evening falling into the arms of similarly inebriated young men. Then, they wake up the next morning with a hangover, and a fair proportion of them find that they have something to regret. I am not among those who think that the young men involved are solely to blame. But…
But ask yourself this! Will introducing young women into fraternities make drunken rutting of the sort that is now all too common more or less likely? Then, ask yourself this as well: “What sort of young women are likely to want to join fraternities?” And “what is the likely consequence of mixing the two sexes in this fashion in such a setting?”
I have no personal connection with Wesleyan. It was once a respectable school — with some very capable people on the faculty. There may still be some fine individuals there. But the administration? The folks in charge have clearly lost their minds, and the trustees of the institution must be a piece of work.
I wish that I could tell you that Wesleyan is unique — that it is the only such school to have gone off the rails. But let’s not kids ourselves. At such institutions, the 18-year-olds generally have more common sense and decency than the folks in charge. No young woman of any sense with something in her past to regret would ever join a fraternity. Wesleyan’s new policy amounts to this: no fraternity that fails to turn itself into a brothel can be tolerated on campus.
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If the 1 out 5 figure were even remotely true, is it still right to call them universities anymore? Wouldn’t “rape camps” be more appropriate? How about Princeton Rape Camp, or Ohio State Rape Camp. Also shouldn’t every Admission Dept. be fired for such a colossal failure to weed out the potential rapists?
Or maybe the statistic is such a complete fabrication that even the administrators don’t really believe it.
Interesting post Professor. I am not quite sure what the logic is here, other than perhaps that the continuous presence of young women will have a calming effect upon the boys. I fail to see this logic, when the same would likely tell us that there is no practical difference between men and women.
Of course, these harpies would in one breath claim that the womenfolk are being sexually abused against their will, but would then tell you that they are not trustworthy enough to keep a pistol with them on campus. Seems to me that if one is not trustworthy enough to know not to murder someone, they might also not be trustworthy enough not to be believed if they cry “abuse!”
Someone should check to see if the organizations pushing the “campus rape culture” meme are funded by the University of Phoenix.
Having gone to college back in the dark ages when we had a 10:15 curfew on weeknights, 11:30 on Fridays, and 12:15 on Saturdays, to this day I am still flabbergasted at the idea of coed dorms.
But there is more to the idea of coed fraternities (an oxymoron if ever there was one). Besides denying men the opportunity to have something that is theirs and theirs alone (yes, it’s important), it is just one more indication that certain women want to have it both ways: They want to be treated like men (and act like men) but at the same time want to be protected from those ‘brutes.’
It also seems that this represents additional whittling away at the idea of femininity – and there’s not that much left these days. But then I just may be really old fashioned…
Is Wesleyan issuing an equivalent ultimatum to the sororities on campus?
Are these all local fraternities? It’s hard to imagine that ΣAE or ΣN national will go “Well, shuurrr, whatever the college wants, we don’t stand for anything…”
That would be THE Ohio State Rape Camp.
This weapon is currently being used against our military. Diversity offices flourish everywhere, with ridiculous conferences that put the IRS junkets to shame, forming a zampolit network of “trusted informers” whose presence constitutes a second chain of command to political offices elsewhere.
The shocking re-definition and smearing of terms means that the statistics for rape include an agreeable date with regret the next morning. This is the guilt weapon which suppresses organizational defenses against the rest of the political freight — the white male culture of the military is a baby-killing sister-raping travesty which must be reformed until the chain of command and any fighting spirit are broken.
Mission Accomplished.
It is my contention that the military is the best-behaved cohort of young people that America can muster. I have long said that on equivalent terms, our college campi must be worse off than the military. Unfortunately, the equivalent terms being applied are the equally specious claims.
This is the same drill with the “women earn only 77 cents on the dollar of what a man makes” stat. Oh, sorry – “stat”. A study is done. No one drills into the details of the data, because now they can run down the hallway with a stat.
Laughable. So the same schools that spend hundreds of millions in aggregate marketing their institutions fails to let students know that 20% of the women on campus will be sexually assaulted? Why aren’t there mandatory Rape Warning signs on campus then? How about some No-Rape Zones get set up, pronto? How come there’s no wildly overpaid Director for Rape Avoidance (the DRA) in place in every school in the country?
As for the fraternity, it’s a vehicle to get the frat boyz to quit. That’s it. And they will, or go off-campus. Then, the campus will become less rapey, and the DRA will get a big fat raise.
PS: Biden is creepy.
Apparently, not. I would not be surprised if the national office of one of these fraternities financed a lawsuit by the local chapter citing Title IX and demanding equal treatment of the sororities.
My first suspicion is that the War on Women meme worked well enough against Romney that Hillary intends to double down on the gambit. After all, it’s a lot easier to manage a fake problem than real crisis. The entire left/liberal axis is even now swinging into line behind the effort. It doesn’t surprise me that colleges are supplying the bait: young women, easy access, and inebriated young men. When the inevitable happens, the stories will be splashed across the media nationwide. You see how this works, right?
The two are not connected. This is part of the push to allow men no place of their own. Women invade male spaces and the demand men change.
The cries of rape are the normal feminist avoidance of responsibility. Everything to them is not the their fault. It is funny that women who say they want equality sound like negative female stereotypes.
Never was a big fan of what I saw fraternity culture. If I had a daughter going to college, I’d likely warn her to steer clear.
I believe in liberty, so I simply didn’t join and didn’t demand that fraternities disband or become “frororities”.
This leads one to think of the Soviets.
I seem to remember the 1 in 5 stat was being bandied about when I was an undergrad in the late 70s. My questions is why would any responsible parent send their daughter to an institution that had that kind of record? And pay for it. And yet, in the face of those odds, they still keep sending them.
Seems to me that all male and all female universities would solve the rape issue. Not sure why they are not that way already.
John Wesley must be turning over in his grave, laughing bitterly, or quoting Shakespeare: “What fools ye mortals be.”
You beat me to it, TR. That, plus the sorry state of the church he founded.
I was a frat boy in the sixties. Even then, the universities treated fraternities and sororities pretty badly … until the college administration wanted something from them Like organizing a charity event. I always assumed that the campus administrators were folks who were blackballed when they were students trying to join.
John Wesley was an Anglican. His admirers founded Methodism after he died.
If any of y’all know any campus Republicans personally, could you please pass along this suggestion:
Find out if there are any statistics regarding incidents of theft on American college campuses, and then launch a campaign to end the “Theft Culture” that is rampant.
“1 in # college students WILL be victims of theft. It is time to end Theft Culture.”
I originally had “The Ohio..” but I changed it to see if it would get a response.
The Ricochetti did not disappoint. :D
As ridiculous as this sounds, yes, the directive would apply to sororities at Wesleyan as well if they were residential. However, it actually has only two residential fraternities that would be affected and no residential sororities. The way around the rule would be to move off campus. One of the fraternities is already co-educational and has been for several decades.
When my daughter was a Portland officer her friends loved the fact that she was the designated driver for girls night out. They did not appreciate the observations she made after some of them complained about they way they were treated by some guys at the nightclubs they visited. She told them that if you want to meet a decent guy he won’t be found in a nightclub drinking away every Friday or Saturday night. The other observation was if you dress like a slut you’ll be treated like slut. I told her if you wanted to be loved you should have become a firefighter.
Great quote today from Dan Calabrese at caintv.com, which puts a spin on the whole “just teach men not to rape” trope:
Essentially, society used to “just teach men not to rape”, and to secure explicit consent in front of witnesses. It was cultural leftists that threw away that practice as “old fashioned”. You reap what you sow.
Source: http://www.caintv.com/with-sexual-assault-hysteria-c
Wesleyan has a great history of inappropriate mixing of the sexes. I visited the college for a couple of days in the early 1980s. It was already a hotbed of political correctness, before the term was coined. My friend’s dorm had unisex bathrooms. I figured back then the administration was made up of lunatics.
By the way, has a sorority ever been told to accept men or shut its doors? I doubt it.
The 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 number is bunk. Go here.