Is the Campus Rape Crisis Overblown?

Ma99ie · 2014-07-12T05:50:02+00:00

Is that a serious question? It's not only overblown, it's almost wholly made up. There is no "rape culture". One in five college women are not getting sexually assaulted. This is the same type of hysteria as the child molestation witch hunts of the 1980's. The "research" that supports the activists is advocacy research created by whack jobs and ideologues. People trained in "sexual assault response" are on a crusade, despite the equities. These are the type of people who arrest and charge 7 year old boys with sexual assault.

Methodius_ · 2014-07-12T05:34:38+00:00

The details of what McCaskill will propose are not yet fully known, but the expectation is that the legislation will call for consent every step of the way in a sexual encounter. The consent doesn’t have to be verbal. It can be implicit and it can be body language, but it must be clear and unambiguous.

This worries me. Because it still comes down to a he said/she said scenario. There is no way to prove consent, unless you tape record it or get a woman to sign something before any sexual contact. Every single time it happens. And as it is, if it comes down to he said/she said? Most people are more likely to believe the she.

IS44 · 2014-07-12T07:13:42+00:00

Let's pretend that 1 in 4 women are raped, and that 80% of these rapes go unreported, as so many feminists claim.

~~That turns into a "statistic" that 5 in 4 women are raped.~~ Dyscalculia and wine are not friends.

Problem? Just a tad. The real problem here is that people often look for some easy-cut stat they can drop into a conversation. They want the shit you can easily outline, without further investigation; that's how these things work. It's simpler to claim 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 or 1 in 6 than it is to say, "Here are the actual stats, and here's the real issue, and here are some studies surrounding the controversy. Also, here's the statistic for men who are raped, which doesn't get added, because hey, who cares, they're men."

To make the point short: Mainstream radical feminism is fucking lazy as hell. Take it from a woman who got tired of that butchered statistics shit a long time ago.

BatmanBrah · 2014-07-12T12:31:22+00:00

Whether this is true or not, (though several factors strongly suggest it is overblown), the fact that conversations can be had here without insults and abuse being thrown at those who simply question the biased statistics they've been told being a primary viewpoint is truly a great thing.

hippo_canoe · 2014-07-12T14:56:50+00:00

I cannot imagine what it must be like for men of college age right now. The suggestion that they record consent at every point of the encounter almost seems like a rational response to the very real possibility that at any point in the future, the woman may choose to reclassify the event into rape, and condemn a man to rape at the hands of the system. Unfortunately, such a recording, even were it not explicit, could probably be recast as some sort of perverse intrusion into the woman's privacy with all the incumbent repercussions.

Does anyone know of more reliable statistics about rape, and campus rape in particular? I know a young lady that admitted her biggest fear was getting raped on campus, and I'd like to reassure her that this 1 in 4 statistic is vastly out of proportion to the realities. TIA.

baskandpurr · 2014-07-12T16:31:53+00:00

Nomenimion · 2014-07-12T23:06:59+00:00

There is no "rape crisis." Rather, there is a false reporting crisis.

Title	Is the Campus Rape Crisis Overblown?
Author	EvilPundit
Upvotes	17
Comments	13
Date	July 12, 2014 3:25 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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