Writer Caitlin Flanagan has a problem with men

taufish · 2013-10-28T18:05:34+00:00

"Drunk young college woman [sic] are stratospherically more vulnerable to sexual assault than drunk young college men." It is now and will always be the case that women are disproportionately victimized by men when the definition of victimization is so bizzare.

Juxtapose "The young man got what was coming to him" with "the young woman — as always, in these matters — got the worst of things." What led to the situation where one was justly victimized and the other unjustly victimized? "A female student and a young male alumnus nursed their sorrow over the Bobcats’ loss by getting heroically plastered and then making each other’s acquaintance." However, despite both of them making the decision to drink themselves senseless, the alcohol appearently had wildly different effects on each: it transformed one into a sexual predator, and the other into a helpless victim. They were both drunk, by choice, and yet, "The young woman was out of her gourd on booze, and the young man was taking advantage of her drunkenness to assault her."

Drunk young college women will always be helpless victims of drunk young college men as long as we accept the idea that alcohol makes women blameless and makes men evil.

2013-10-28T15:52:36+00:00

Pierce, what I find interesting is that the feminists hate on Flanagan too, but you're right she certainly endorses two men 1) Not calling the cops when they see a rape, 2) Not stopping the rape physically, but 3) Waiting till it's done and beating the guy up. Bizarre.

How many times now has captured and uploaded video saved lives? Prevented abuses? Cleared the accused? Refuted "eye witnesses". Clarified how accidents, or crashes, or ... occurred?

Uploaded video may be distasteful, but it serves real a journalistic need of the public.

saint2e · 2013-10-28T14:30:58+00:00

Sounds like she's slut-shaming the guy.

wrez · 2013-10-28T18:28:58+00:00

Caitlin Flanagan supports ignoring the Rule of Law, while espousing vigilantism. Quite a tragedy in this civilized era.

She'd be at home in the antebellum south, in the middle of a lynch mob, holding a noose to murder an innocent black man.

andreipmbcn · 2013-10-28T15:47:06+00:00

If they were identified as witnesses, that means the police knows about them, right? Hopefully, their fingerprints are on his clothes now.

IHSigV · 2014-04-19T21:26:48+00:00

The most brilliant piece I've read as a rebuttal to Ms. Flanagan is TheFraternityProject.

HolySchmoly · 2013-10-28T13:43:36+00:00

I'm afraid I think this particular line of Flanagan's is well-written and exactly correct.

"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."

That's how they strike me. I especially like "august and moldering".

I duck and cover in preparation for the downvotes.

This line, however, is outrageous:

"got what was coming to him: By committing his act in public, he exposed himself to the swift judgment of men, and his ass-kicking probably won’t be the half of his problems."

Title	Writer Caitlin Flanagan has a problem with men
Author	PierceHarlan
Upvotes	68
Comments	27
Date	October 28, 2013 11:46 AM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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