Henry Dampier

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The Middle Class Campus Rape Craze

We seem to be going through a period of hysteria around the phenomenon of the purported rapes of middle class girls on co-ed college campuses.

Less than 40 years after feminists broke down gender segregation in the academy, lowering standards and blowing up the doctrine of in loco parentis, many of those feminists have come to decrying their unique project, the co-ed institution of higher learning, as a place where rape is endemic.

In the words of activists, these aren’t typically violent rapes. They are instead rather more rapes via intoxication and seduction, which are not necessarily obviously rape for everyone involved until later on, when there is no evidence or eyewitness testimony to corroborate the reports. It is a subjective conception of rape that never meets the evidentiary standard that American courts require to convict someone of a crime.

UVA: Educating the a future generation of leading group sex fans and permanently damaged therapy patients

 

The latest article on the topic is a feature for Rolling Stone about a ‘gang-rape’ at one of the most prestigious public universities in the country, the University of Virginia. UVA was founded by Thomas Jefferson.

The article recounts a scene of the dean responsible for investigating rape complaints:

If Dean Eramo was surprised at Jackie’s story of gang rape, it didn’t show. A short woman with curly dark hair and a no-nonsense demeanor, Eramo surely has among the most difficult jobs at UVA. As the intake person on behalf of the university for all sexual-assault complaints since 2006, it’s her job to deal with a parade of sobbing students trekking in and out of her office. (UVA declined to make Eramo available for comment.) A UVA alum herself, Eramo is beloved by survivors, who consider her a friend and confidante – even though, as only a few students are aware, her office isn’t a confidential space at all. Each time a new complaint comes through Eramo’s office, it activates a review by UVA’s Title IX officer, is included in UVA’s tally of federally mandated Clery Act crime statistics, and Eramo may, at her discretion, reveal details of her conversation with the student to other administrators. (Jackie was mortified to learn later that Eramo had shared her identity with another UVA administrator.) After all, a dean’s foremost priority is the overall safety of the campus.

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When Jackie finished talking, Eramo comforted her, then calmly laid out her options. If Jackie wished, she could file a criminal complaint with police. Or, if Jackie preferred to keep the matter within the university, she had two choices. She could file a complaint with the school’s Sexual Misconduct Board, to be decided in a “formal resolution” with a jury of students and faculty, and a dean as judge. Or Jackie could choose an “informal resolution,” in which Jackie could simply face her attackers in Eramo’s presence and tell them how she felt; Eramo could then issue a directive to the men, such as suggesting counseling. Eramo presented each option to Jackie neutrally, giving each equal weight. She assured Jackie there was no pressure – whatever happened next was entirely her choice.

Like many schools, UVA has taken to emphasizing that in matters of sexual assault, it caters to victim choice. “If students feel that we are forcing them into a criminal or disciplinary process that they don’t want to be part of, frankly, we’d be concerned that we would get fewer reports,” says associate VP for student affairs Susan Davis. Which in theory makes sense: Being forced into an unwanted choice is a sensitive point for the victims. But in practice, that utter lack of guidance can be counterproductive to a 19-year-old so traumatized as Jackie was that she was contemplating suicide. Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of a school offering to handle the investigation and adjudication of a felony sex crime – something Title IX requires, but which no university on Earth is equipped to do – the sheer menu of choices, paired with the reassurance that any choice is the right one, often has the end result of coddling the victim into doing nothing.

“This is an alarming trend that I’m seeing on campuses,” says Laura Dunn of the advocacy group SurvJustice. “Schools are assigning people to victims who are pretending, or even thinking, they’re on the victim’s side, when they’re actually discouraging and silencing them. Advocates who survivors love are part of the system that is failing to address sexual violence.”

We ought to perhaps consider, that whether or not these sexual acts are actually rape, whether or not this is the kind of culture that is capable of maintaining a global empire of any significance, or really a country of any significance at all.

These are what, in the historical context, we would call show trials. There is no evidence presented beyond hearsay. In many cases, as with the recent charges leveled against Bill Cosby in the media, there’s nothing but a long parade of hearsay, with no evidence presented, amid an ideological climate that states that the testimonies of women should be trusted no matter what, whether or not it meets the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard.

The press has also become comfortable repeating thin non-evidence in a libelous manner, and the government does not seem to care that major television stations, magazines, and newspapers are making a mock of American laws around libel and defamation.

What do we really get out of co-education?

 

Given that co-education has not delivered the promised results, as with all socialist programs, there must be a set of wreckers to be blamed for the institutional failures. In this case, the failure of co-education to do anything but deliver vastly damaged standards of public intellect and lowered public morals, the wreckers blamed for this failure are young male pseudo-rapists, who are really more accurately termed fornicators.

Having driven out older norms and rituals around sexual behavior, the left expresses shock that the result has been widespread unhappiness. Having lost the language to call women ‘ruined’ with fornication, or for calling promiscuous young men rakes, or for even distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate sex, there is only the language of therapy and trauma to take its place.

Regrettable, morally-damaging sex falls into the only legal category that seems to hold the moral weight that contemporary liberals haven’t destroyed: rape.

Whereas before there was a wide taxonomy describing different forms of sexual misbehavior, today, we only have ‘harassment’ and ‘rape.’

Women are supposedly strong and independent, but even the girls who attend some of the most selective institutions in the country are neither strong nor independent enough, apparently, to enforce their own consent, or to make intelligent decisions about protecting themselves from unseemly sexual encounters.

If so among the most intelligent and socially well-positioned young women, what does that say for the gender as a whole? These are students that are at least in the top 5%, IQ-wise. It is perhaps more likely that the ancient philosophers were more correct about the limitations of this sex than we tend to give them credit for today, even by the piously trumpeted admissions of the feminists.

This has always been a major philosophical problem for assigning legal rights to women: it makes a whole lot less sense when someone else always has to enforce the rights of that entire class of human being. Almost any man can clobber any woman in a physical struggle, and given the vulnerability of their sex, the law before the revolution had different expectations for women.

Going back 60 or 70 years, this set of consequences was foreseeable and was foreseen.

Diminished standards, diminished morals, and ruined graduates

 

‘Jackie’ from the article was most likely not raped. But the damage done to her is certainly real, as is the emotional ball of screw-up-edness that she and whomever is stuck marrying her is going to wind up having to clean up.

“Everything bad in my life now is built around that one bad decision that I made,” she says. “All because I went to that stupid party.”

Who cares?
Did Jackie’s family get their money’s worth? Did the state of Virginia get its money’s worth? Was this education worthwhile for her? Was it terribly worthwhile for the men who ran a train on her? Do we want people of such low moral quality leading the country? Why are we still assigning to much weight to these institutions if, by the loud admissions of liberals, they are churning out ‘rapists’ of this type?
Out-of-state tuition at UVA is over $18,000 per semester. Are their parents getting a good return on their investment if this is at all representative of the moral level of the student body?
The influence of the ‘party culture’ is perhaps over-rated, as there are many students who choose to opt out, but in my estimation it isn’t by much. If you host a party with kegs of cheap beer and have plenty of solo cups, you won’t lack for attendees.
Calling the problem ‘rape’ or ‘rape culture’ is not accurate.
The sexual revolution has more unpleasant consequences than has been advertised. It is common to hear American men say that they don’t particularly want to marry or have relationships with American women. One of the reasons why is that they tend to accumulate all sorts of baggage as they pick up a dozen or more sexual partners by the time they hit their early 20s, whether or not they’re educated. For our grandmother’s generation, that would’ve been unthinkable, the sort of experience that they would expect a prostitute to have and not a respectable young woman.
Whether or not Jackie deserved to be ruined, what kind of idiot would want to marry her?
There is this sort of idea, promulgated by the revolutionaries, that women are simultaneously hyper-durable, people who gain in vitality and worth as they accumulate sexual experience, while simultaneously saying that women are hyper-delicate creatures who can be emotionally scarred for life by an unhappy sexual encounter which might not meet the legal standard of rape.
Like in many other cases, our ancestors had more accumulated cultural knowledge than we give them credit for. Discarding historically accumulated morals and rituals as if they were worthless and ‘irrational’ has caused an enormous amount of human suffering that liberals only seem capable of acknowledging in such a way that blames everyone except themselves and their own proudly trumpeted doctrines of the sexual free-for-all.

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Your Wife, the Suicide Bomber

Because I always pay attention to and click ads on the internet, here comes this trailer for a television show that I’ll never watch on a cable channel that I don’t have access to called ‘Bar Rescue.’

In this trailer, we witness the story of a successful bar which was earning $15,000 per week (that’s $780k in gross annual revenue — not bad for a new bar in Pennsylvania)… until the entrepreneur’s wife elected to divorce him, sapping the man’s motivation and much of the cash flow.

This is actually a fairly common story, a story common enough that most American men in their 20s either had it happen to their family, or know someone whose family it happened to. Wives will often try to divorce their man right at what they perceive to be his peak earnings, even if the peak is only a sudden spike which was quite fragile in reality. They figure that if they hook him for alimony and child support at that point, they can be set for life without working.

Unfortunately for adventuring divorcees everywhere, the typical result of a divorce is to destroy a man’s motivation, sapping his ability to earn at his peak.

At any point, a man’s wife can screech ‘BETTY FRIEDAN AKBAR,’ call 1-800-DIVORCE, and destroy their lives both financially and morally.

The producers of this particular show try to develop some dramatic tension by saying that the man owes it to his ex-wife and their 10-year-old daughter to get the business earning like it used to, because he has obligations whereas the wife apparently has no obligations to either her husband or to the marriage itself. This perverse set of values is reflected in the legal system.

These kinds of divorces tend to hit small business owners much harder than large corporations. If this bar were a part of a larger corporate chain, Bruno the bar owner would be out on his ass the moment that his wife blew up his life. He’d be replaced with someone else in a blink — someone without a direct ownership stake in his community.

Multiply such stories thousands of times over, and it begins to make sense why the greater Philadelphia area is so ramshackle compared to what it was a couple generations ago. There may be a connection, there.

In the second clip, the ‘bar rescuers’ berate the man for ‘not coming through for his little girl,’ perhaps to build some artificial dramatic tension. Whatever happened to holding women responsible for their destructive actions? The producers script this show, supposedly for a men’s cable network, to solidify a legal system in which women hold high status, and men are just truculent slaves who must be shamed into cutting fat checks to women who have become their worst enemies.

Younger men look at stories like this and opt out. Bars like this just don’t get started. If they do get started, they’re administered from Greenwich, Connecticut by owners in private equity who will strip and dump the entire chain when it eventually stops performing.

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A New Scapegoat For Failed Feminist Predictions

For over 150 years now, feminists have predicted that, once educational opportunities between men and women were equalized, American women would join men at the forefront of civilization.

This hasn’t happened, even though decades have passed during which women out-number men in universities.

Though Vox Day, we see read the new set of excuses:

Yesterday the European Space Agency landed the Philae spacecraft on a comet, a powerful step forward for humanity and science alike. However, slightly before the big moment, coverage of the event reminded us how much progress remains to be accomplished back on Earth.

A number of the scientists involved on this incredible project were interviewed in the hours leading to contact by Nature Newsteam. One of those Rosetta scientists was Matt Taylor, who chose to dress, for this special occasion, in a bowling shirt covered in scantly clad caricatures of sexy women in provocative poses.

“This is going to be a very long day but a very exciting day,” said Taylor. “I think everyone should enjoy it because we’re making history.”

No one knows why Taylor chose to wear that shirt on television during a massive scientific mission. From what we can tell, a woman who goes by the name of Elly Prizeman on Twitter made the shirt for him, and is just as bewildered as he must be that anyone might be upset about her creation. But none of that actually matters. What matters is the fact that no one at ESA saw fit to stop him from representing the Space community with clothing that demeans 50 percent of the world’s population. No one asked him to take it off, because presumably they didn’t think about it. It wasn’t worth worrying about.

This is the sort of casual misogyny that stops women from entering certain scientific fields. They see a guy like that on TV and they don’t feel welcome.

That’s nonsense.

As time goes on, the egalitarian hypothesis becomes ever less credible. When the data fails to fit the prediction, they fudge a conclusion. The hypothesis was that equal access to education, mandated in law, would help women make far greater contributions to the sciences than were ever before possible. The guess was that women are the same as men are in terms of their capacities and interests. There is no significant evidence for this proposition, and a great deal of evidence showing the opposite.

The very success of the feminist movement in overturning laws and social norms has only succeeded at providing more data to disprove their claims.

Male nature and female nature are irreconcilably different. This is an example in which social conflict ensues to no good end regarding an imagined wrecker of the grand feminist agenda. If crass bowling shirts are a sufficient demotivator to women who would otherwise become rocket scientists, what of the countless dreary hours spend studying dry texts?

The amount of time that one must dedicate towards any advanced technical field is foreboding to most men. When given the choice between thousands of hours spent in the library and thousands of hours spent watching television, the overwhelming majority will choose television.

It is even more foreboding to women, who have intrinsically less grueling and more rewarding options available to them merely by virtue of their sex.

The sexy bowling shirt is infinitely less foreboding than the grueling effort required to even contemplate working in space travel. To suggest that it is even close to a dominant factor in preventing women from becoming rocket scientists is to launch an argument against attempting to place more women into the grueling, mostly inglorious & underpaying  labor of rocket science.

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