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Home of the series The War on Male Students.TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-91336671033385255642013-04-02T02:51:00.000-07:002013-04-02T02:53:07.582-07:00New website, coming soon<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I will be transitioning to a new website before too long. It is still under construction, but that will be remedied soon. Click on the banner below! And don't forget to join <a href="http://www.facebook.com/avoiceformalestudents">my Facebook page</a>!</span><br />
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-37506800359610362012013-01-28T04:24:00.000-08:002013-01-28T04:26:07.333-08:00Dare to Disagree, by Margaret Heffernan - AMAZING<span style="font-size: large;">I just came across this amazing talk from Ted Talks. In this video, Margaret Heffernan discusses the academic and organizational dynamics that inhibit progress and positive change, and which are highly relevant to progress and educational equity for men and boys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Among certain Feminists
in academia, the definition of rape is being broadened to the point of
absurdity, demonizing men and trivializing the experiences of rape victims. We
will cover several such definitions in this <span style="font-size: large;">post</span>. It is
important to understand this tendency, because when we begin to discuss rape statistics,
we will find that many of the methodologies that ideologically-drive professors
use when they find high a incidence of rape employ broad definitions that most
reasonable people would not label rape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On page 60 their book <i>The Female Fear</i>, professors Margaret
Gordon and Stephanie Reiger define rape in this way: </span><span style="font-size: large;">“The American dating
system, which constitutes a primary source of heterosexual contacts, legitimizes
the consensual purchase of women as sexual objects and obliterates the crucial
distinction between consent and nonconsent.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope that for most of
us, no argument is needed to disprove such a statement. But let us explore it,
to sharpen our critical thinking skills: contrary to what these professors assume,
when it comes to dating, there is no guarantee of sexual services in exchange
for the man’s payment. It is not like walking into a store and giving a cashier
money in exchange for a good or a service which a man could legally sue for if
he did not receive it. And if a man and woman did enter into an arrangement to trade
sex for money, it would still the case that both parties still have a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But what if professors
Margaret Gordon and Stephanie Reiger are correct? What is to be said of the
women who prefer men pay? Are such women rape apologists and rape advocates? And what if a lesbian pays for a date with a
woman and later has sex with her? Is she also a rapist? According to these
professors, no; this concept only applies to heterosexual dating.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The professors also say on page 6, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“Then
there are the wolf-whistles, unwanted hugs and pinches – what the authors of
one book call “mini-rapes” – which continually remind women they are vulnerable,
sexual victims.” </span><span style="font-size: large;">The authors they are
referring to are Feminist Professor Andra Medea and Kathleen Thompson, who
together authored the book </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Against Rape. </i><span style="font-size: large;">To
clarify, if you read their book, you will find they do not describe them as
“mini-rapes” per se, but instead “little rapes.” Medea and Thompson rationalize
defining such things as catcalls as “little rapes” by saying on page 50, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“We have defined
rape as forced sexual intimacy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a very broad
definition, and it is not the legal definition. Intimacy, of course, can mean not
just physical intimacy brought about through touch, but also emotional intimacy
brought about through words. Under this definition, the woman who was raped at
gunpoint is now classified in the same category of victimization as a woman who
experienced the brief discomfort of being told she was attractive in an indecorous
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<span style="font-size: large;">The idea of a “mini rape”
does not end with the aforementioned authors, however. In a 1994 interview
among Dr. Christina
Hoff-Sommers and Camille Paglia, and Ben Wattenberg, who hosted a show called
“Think Tank” at PBS. Dr. Hoff-Sommers says,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I interviewed
a young women at the University of Pennsylvania who came in in a short skirt
and she was in the Women's Center, and I think she thought I was one of the
sisterhood. And she said, 'Oh, I just suffered a mini-rape.' And I said, 'What
happened?' And she said, 'A boy walked by me and said, `Nice legs'. 'You know?
And that -- and this young woman considers this a form of rape!</i><i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are not the only Feminists
in academia desperate to demonize men and trivialize the experiences of genuine
rape victims by radically broadening the definition of rape. According to Feminist professor
Liz Kelly of London Metropolitan University says on page 41 of her book <i>Surviving Sexual Violence</i>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sexual
violence includes any physical, visual, verbal or sexual act that is
experienced by the woman or girl, at the time or later, as a threat, invasion
or assault that has the effect of hurting her or degrading her and/or taken
away her ability to control intimate contact.'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is rape? Apparently,
to professor Kelly, everything. She makes this more clear on page 350 of the book <i>The Hidden Gender of Law</i>, saying, </span><br />
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is no clear distinction between consensual sex and rape</u>, but a continuum of
pressure, threat, coercion and force. The concept of a continuum validates the
sense of abuse women feel when they do not freely consent to sex.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Kelly is an extreme
Feminist. But is she a marginal one? According
to <a href="http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/solscres/BSC2011/keynote/?view=Standard">the website of Northumbria University</a>, she is head of the Child and Woman
Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, the Roddick Chair of
Violence Against Women, a Commissioner for the Women’s National Commission and
one of two appointed experts by the European parliament to the European Union’s
Gender Centre.” She is, of course, also a professor. She is also the author of
a study which found a high prevalence of rape – surprise surprise. We will
discuss how her biases influence that study later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A somewhat similar
statement is made by professors Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot on page 3 of
their book <i>Sexual Assault on Campus</i>, where they clarify the terms they will use
throughout the book: </span><span style="font-size: large;">“Sexual assault is a
general term that describes all forms of unwanted sexual activity."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are two big
problems with this statement. Can you guess which ones they are? The first is
this: all forms? What all can fall under the general umbrella of sexual
activity? Sexual misconduct in academia, for example, is a broad term that
encompasses sexual assault and sexual harassment, the latter of which involves
not physical assault, but something as simple as words and facial gestures. In
academia, these can all be classified as forms of sexual activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second problem, which
might seem easy to pass over at first – and I ask for your patience if your
initial reaction is to disagree - is the word “unwanted." I myself have
had sex when I did not want to at first because I was preoccupied with
something at the time, as well as types of sex that I did not particularly want to have, but I did it anyway to please my partner. Sexual assault
is not sex that is unwanted per se, but sex that is nonconsensual. There is a
critical difference between the two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Consent is also an
element in our everyday lives apart from sex. Have people ever done things for
their partners that they did not want to do, but then went along with it
because it made their partner happy? A partner may not “want” to mow the lawn or
go see their mother-in-law on their day off work, but may do it anyway. A
person may not “want” to donate to charity, but may do so after a persuasive
request is made. That does not mean that person’s money was stolen. Not wanting
to do something and not consenting to do something are sometimes – but not
always – the same thing. Language matters, and professors Bohmer and Parrot
need to be more careful about how they use theirs, especially in the section of
a book dedicated to clarifying the terms they will use throughout the rest of
the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A statement which is hard
to read without a double-take comes from professor Carol Sanger of Columbia
University School of Law. She says in her article "New Perspectives on Rape" in the <i>Los Angeles Times </i>(</span><span style="font-size: large;">April 2</span><span style="font-size: large;">5, 19<span style="font-size: large;">91, p. B7):</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Consent<span style="font-size: large;"> - </span>agreeing to
something<span style="font-size: large;"> - </span>is usually not a hard concept to understand. It may at first appear
more complex in the context of rape. One reason is simply its unexpected
presence. There is no other crime defined in terms of consent. Only in rape is
the victim asked, ‘Did you agree to it?’ Compare: "Did you agree to be
punched in the face?" "Did you agree to be mugged</i>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You heard correct folks: professor Carol
Sanger truly believes that normal sexual intercourse is rape. But perhaps I am
being too judgmental of her; perhaps, like professors Margaret Gordon and Stephanie
Reiger, she only believes that heterosexual intercourse, as opposed to all
intercourse, is rape, and that only men are rapists. Unfortunately, she does
not clarify. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But how influential can a woman like Carol
Sanger become in academia? According to <a href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/null?exclusive=filemgr.download&id=542133">her CV</a>, which like many you can now
find online, professor Carol Sanger has been a member of the Executive Committee at the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender from the year 2001‑present, as well as a member of the
Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity Initiatives. In other words, she
is a gatekeeper on whether or not research she deems acceptable gets published,
as well as whether or not administrators should pay attention to the inequities in
educational attainment among male students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Far too many Feminists professors believe
and act as if rape (or the desire to rape) is a normal part of male psychology.
For example, Feminist professor Mary Koss, then from Kent State University - says,
“Rape is indeed an extreme form of behavior, but one that exists on a continuum
with normal male behavior within the culture.” Professor Koss is the author of
the infamous “1-in-4” statistic, which we will cover in an upcoming post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <i>Professing Feminism</i>, dissenting Feminist professors Daphne Patai
and Noretta Koertge summed up Feminist Professor Catharine MacKinnon’s
perspective on rape by saying on page 129, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“In a
patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a
group, are not strong enough to give
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<span style="font-size: large;">While this quote is sometimes misattributed to
MacKinnon, who is a professor at University of Michigan school of law, if we examine her work, we find that this description bears
striking similarity to her views. First, in </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Toward
a Feminist Theory</i><span style="font-size: large;"> of the State (page 176), MacKinnon says, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“This approach reflects
men’s experience that women they know do meaningfully consent to sex with
them…men and women are unequally socially situated with regard to the
experience of rape.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She later elaborates on page 178</span><span style="font-size: large;">: </span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“Under conditions of male dominance, if sex is normally something men
do to women, the issue is less whether there was force than whether consent is
a meaningful concept.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When it comes to deciding
whether a rape has occurred, if consent is not a meaningful concept, and if
force is not a meaningful concept, then what is? One might wonder, on what
terms does such a Feminist determine whether a rape has occurred? We can
triangulate this based upon her other statements. In her book <i>Feminism Unmodified</i>, she says, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">feels</i><span style="font-size: large;"> violated” (page 82). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her statement is
completely unqualified by any kind of context. One might ask: when must this
“feeling” of “violation” occur for it to become rape? And what does “violation”
mean exactly? Does professor MacKinnon agree with professor Liz Kelly that it
could be “any physical, visual, verbal or sexual act that is experienced by the
woman or girl”? People can feel “violated” by all sorts of things – both
actions and words. And with the tendency of Feminists to define words in and of
themselves as the equivalent of physical assault, we cannot assume that their
meanings are as reasonable as we might otherwise be led to believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Professor MacKinnon also
says <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rxE8FQzjpYMC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=%22Feminism+is+built+on+believing+women%E2%80%99s+accounts+of+sexual+use+and+abuse+by+men%22&source=bl&ots=wfzN6ijY9S&sig=RTL5ottCtYh-NrThTuWgbA0CUmA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dAb5ULuON6W22gW10YHYAg&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Feminism%20is%20built%20on%20believing%20women%E2%80%99s%20accounts%20of%20sexual%20use%20and%20abuse%20by%20men%22&f=false">in the same book</a> on page 5, </span><span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Feminism is built
on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.” </span><span style="font-size: large;">So we know that, according
to professor MacKinnon, there are two necessary conditions for a woman to have
been raped. One condition is that if a woman </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">feels</i><span style="font-size: large;"> violated – and again, we don’t know what “feeling” and
“violation” mean exactly. And the other condition is that if she merely says
she was raped, then she most definitely was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">MacKinnon’s statement
that consent is not a meaningful concept is rather interesting considering
Feminist politics. If, according to Feminism, “no always means no,” shouldn’t
yes always mean yes? Consider this statement, which is very similar to
professor MacKinnon’s, by Feminist law professor Susan Estrich says in her landmark
Feminist book <i>Real Rape, </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">"Many feminists would
argue that so long as women are powerless
relative to men</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">, </i><span style="font-size: large;">viewing
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<span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, professor Carol
Pateman of UCLA says in "Women and Consent," published in <i>Political Theory</i>, volume 8, page 149: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Consent as ideology cannot be distinguished from
habitual acquiescence, assent, silent dissent, submission, or even enforced
submission. Unless refusal or consent or withdrawal of consent are real
possibilities, we can no longer speak of ‘consent’ in any genuine sense.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a fundamental
element of the Feminist faith that a woman’s “no” always, inflexibly, and
absolutely means “no;” even if it is said with a teasing and sarcastic tone by a
woman who is at the same time pulling a man’s penis into her. But when a woman
says “yes,” Feminist professors turn around 180 degrees and say that all of a
sudden there are conditions and exceptions to treating the sexes equally - but
here’s the catch: only when they disadvantage men and boys. I am not going to
tell you what to believe in this regard – whether a “no” and a “yes” should
always be interpreted as such. But I will advocate one thing that many
Feminists in academia do not: consistent treatment between the sexes. If we
hold one sex to a particular standard, we should hold the other sex to the
same. And that essence of consistency is what true equality really is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In these <span style="font-size: large;">post</span>s we make
heavy use of quotations. And while certain isolated statements are alarming,
there is a bigger picture in this series on misandry that I believe we must not
lose sight of, which is this: the problem is not so much the singular or
occasional questionable statements by certain faculty, administrators, and
sometimes students. The real problem is the attitude behind it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an example,
professor Medea and Kathleen Thompson declare in their book <i>Against Rape, </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">“Rape is perhaps the
foremost male fantasy in our society” (page 14). </span><span style="font-size: large;">Is this a credible
statement? Is it one that acknowledges the humanity and dignity of men and
boys? According to these authors, the foremost male fantasy is not having a
family – the dream of many young men. It is not inventing something that will
change the world, a dream many men began when they started building with Legos
as a boy. It is not saving the world, a theme which is featured in so many
shows that men and boys like to watch; no, according to these academic Feminists,
the primary male fantasy is rape. Is it more likely or less likely that how
these Feminist professors feel about men and boys as a group will influence to
what degree they treat men and boys fairly on an individual level?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When
a university conducts a hearing regarding an accusation of rape or sexual
harassment, the accusations are sometimes adjudicated by a panel of faculty and
administrators. Ask yourself: looking back on the people and the stories we
have covered in this series, if you were a male student attending a university
and were falsely accused, or if you had a son or other male relative attending
who was falsely accused of rape, would you want people with attitudes like
these sitting on those panels deciding whether you or your loved one is
innocent or guilty? I know I wouldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The professors we covered
in this post are not marginal by any means. On the contrary; they occupy
high-ranking positions in academia. Their works are influential and taught at
the university level. They sit on committees where they decide what views on
men and boys get published, what programs get funded, who gets hired and who gets
fired. They write letters of recommendation to bring into the academic fold
those whose views toward men and boys are similar to their own. They organize
and preside over conferences, where they decide whose work is presented and
whose career gets promoted. Their works are featured in anthologies and other
scholarly publications; they make recommendations for public policy and have
the ear of many administrators, committees, media outlets, and some government
officials. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And last but not least, they teach the next generation to adopt
their attitudes toward men and boys.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>We will discuss their
influence further in future videos and blog posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">*<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to <span style="font-size: large;">A<span style="font-size: large;"> Voice for <span style="font-size: large;">Men for <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/dear-alumni-time-to-go-back-to-school/">posting this article and the associated video on their website!</a>*</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">*To see other material related to A&M-Commerce, <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-war-on-male-students-at-a.html">please c</a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-war-on-male-students-at-a.html">lick here</a>*</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As an MRA who
focuses on educational equity, I spend a lot of time thinking about how best to
tackle the problems affecting male students. I divide these problems into <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">three main areas</a>: educational attainment, the academic culture, and rights and
protections. Although outside academia there are numerous factors
contributing to the educational decline of boys (fatherlessness ranking high
among them), within academia I believe the root of these problems is the
academic culture itself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When this
culture is not misandric, it is acquiescent to the status quo. Being mentally stuck
in the social justice era of the 1960s, <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/06/whitmire">many in academia have not progressed beyond that point and updated their data and approach with the times</a>. In
the meantime male students have slipped further and further away, especially in
the areas of <a href="http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/All-four-degrees-percentage.jpg">educational attainment </a>and <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/In-Making-Campuses-Safe-for/127766/">rights and protections</a>. While I spend a lot of time documenting these
problems, my thoughts constantly return to activism and considering who in
academia we can rely upon to advance the cause of equality for men and boys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And therein
lies the problem: who can we rely on? Teachers, when not politically hostile to
men and boys as a group, wilt under the prospect of opposing those who are,
especially if they are administrators. At many institutions<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Tenure-RIP/66114/"> tenure is being phased out</a> at the same time that misandry is becoming firmly entrenched,
allowing ideologues who have completed their long march through academia to
pull up the ladder behind themselves and keep those with alternative
perspectives perpetually off-balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Administrators
are also not particularly known for their vertebrae when it comes to standing
up for unpopular yet ethical views. “Liabilities” is the language they best
understand, a language in which federal funding speaks louder than conscience and
reason. Like faculty, they too are sometimes politically motivated to ignore the
needs of male students as a group. Being the very essence of the status quo,
administrators by nature are highly resistant to change and will employ a wide
array of bureaucratic parlor tricks to ward off those they hope are too naïve, ignorant,
or powerless to oppose them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">They may,
for example, say, “we’re thinking about it” (when they want you to go away), “that’s not my
department” (when it is), “I can’t tell you what we do behind closed doors because
it’s protected by the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act” (often lies), “ “we
don’t have funding for it” (lies), “I sent you an email about it” (lies), or their
secretary may say “she can’t speak with you because she’s out to lunch/sick/left
early for the day/at a meeting” (more lies). I have spent more time than I
would like to count chasing administrators up and down academia, and have
learned from experience to have a healthy skepticism for their explanations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Students,
when fairly young, are often not overly concerned with political matters, but
can be surprisingly receptive at times. It seems that every other day younger
and younger students are popping up on the Men’s Rights subreddit, talking
about their experiences in school and joining the ranks of those informed by an
MRA perspective. I have more hope for change from students than faculty and
administrators. And yet, students are often subject to the whims of educators
whose idea of diversity, too often, is <a href="http://thefire.org/cases/freespeech/">to oppose the freedom of speech of everyone who politically disagrees with them</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Karma MRA
MGTOW has voiced that one of his main goals in going on poster runs at
universities is to reach the next generation. I believe there is a lot of value
to this approach. We must not only reach out to the students, but also develop
creative methods to shake up academia as a means of making way for them. When
it comes to direct on-the-ground activism at particular universities, I have reached
the conclusion that alumni are best suited for this job. Alumni, having already
received their degree, can confront faculty and administrators without worrying
about their grades or careers. When speaking to students, being an alumnus
grants a degree of authority not normally afforded to your average poster-wielding
activist. If only for the purpose of information gathering, alumni may also have
the benefit of personal and professional networks that many students have not
yet developed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When conducting
activism in academia, I strongly advocate the covert use of recording devices
in “one-party consent” states (where only one person in the conversation needs
to be aware of and consenting to the recording for it to be legal), and the
publication of that information online when corruption is discovered. In
activism generally, and especially in bureaucratic settings, I advise everyone
to think of recording devices as your sword and shield. Remember that
reputations take a lifetime to build and seconds to destroy. While not as high
a priority as funding, the prospective loss of public image and reputation is still
potent. When used correctly and against the right people, recording devices
effectively nail not only certain faculty and administrators to the wall, but
also the institutions they represent. And when exposed as a liability or made
into an example in front of their peers, the academic castles of certain corrupt
faculty and administrators can just as easily become their prisons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As some of
you may know, I am an alumnus and former instructor at A&M-Commerce, and
spoke last year with two administrators at that university. In our meetings,
Title IX Coordinator Michele Vieira admitted to joining other administrators in
taking down – not once, but five times - YouTube videos recorded by students of
“outrageous harassing behavior” by professors, that those who made false rape
accusations were routinely not punished, and that she could not tell me that
the preponderance standard the university had adopted was justified when I
asked her. I tried to work with them to change their sexual misconduct policy
to be fairer to the wrongly accused, but when they cut off communication I
submitted an article containing the damning recording to A Voice for Men, <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-governance-feminism/am-title-ix-coordinator-protects-abuser-abusive-policy/">where it was published</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As of right
now, anyone who <a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=A%26M+Commerce+Rape+Policy&oq=A%26M+Commerce+Rape+Policy&gs_l=hp.3...38.5496.0.5632.34.29.4.0.0.0.209.1987.24j4j1.29.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.TLDPhU81MTk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41642243,d.b2U&fp=bd716464ca59ecaf&biw=1920&bih=941">Googles the phrase “A&M-Commerce Rape Policy”</a> will find the
videos, articles and links to the recorded interviews at the top of the search
results. In addition, Googling the phrase “Michele Vieira Title IX” will return
the article at A Voice for Men named “Title IX Coordinator Protects Abuser,
Abusive Policy.” Students at A&M-Commerce who are wrongly accused or
wrongly convicted in a university hearing, as well as their parents, will now
have access to a lot of information describing what goes on behind the scenes -
information they might use in their defense. When submitting the original
article, I mentioned to Paul Elam that the recording and article might serve a
purpose for future activism. And it has.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">During the
fall semester of 2012, I made several trips to A&M-Commerce to post flyers
directing students to the online material, and more importantly to talk with
and engage the students directly about what was going on. With my smartphone in
my shirt pocket, camera turned outward, I recorded everything. I directed them
<a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-war-on-male-students-at-a.html">to my blog</a>, which had more information than I was able to publish at A
Voice for Men due to space constraints (such as screenshots of lengthy emails
between myself and administrators), and which also linked back to the article
at AVFM. I have compiled some of the most representative of those recordings
into a video, which is now on YouTube. In listening to their statements you
will hear them say things that may surprise you. They certainly surprised me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Above all, I
was surprised at how receptive the students were to hearing me out. I
encountered a man who claims to have been wrongly accused and summarily fired. One
student agreed to post a flyer on the fraternity house wall. I also found a
student who was already under the impression that men and boys wrongly accused
of sexual misconduct were guilty until proven innocent, and another who had
been interested in a career in law and had already been looking into these
things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At the end
of the video, you will see that when I explained to the surrounding students in
the Sam Rayburn Student Center that the deck was stacked against those who were
wrongly accused, a man playing pool exclaimed “Sounds good to me. Guilty!” I later
learned that this man was a staff member who I did not recognize as such because
he was dressed casually in a grey t-shirt. I did not see that the back of his
shirt was marked “STAFF” until I looked back over my shoulder when I was
approached by another staff member asking me to leave. While I was unable to
get his name (he was not wearing a name tag and I was unable to find his picture
on the university website), I did manage to catch him on video.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As chance
would have it I am also friends on Facebook with one of my former colleagues at
A&M-Commerce, who posted a picture of the flyer on his wall and said “So
someone handed this to my students before they entered class.” One of his
friends named Anne Phifer, a woman with Feminist sympathies who worked as a
secretary in the Department of Literature and Languages when I was an
instructor there, was among those who took exception to the flyers. It is a
possibility she may work there still. This is also on the video.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is my
hope that others can learn from, use, and build upon these activism strategies.
This was definitely a positive experience for me. In particular, I was
surprised at how receptive and thankful a lot of students were. Part of this
may be due to my rhetorical approach. Before engaging students with the
material, I asked them if they had a minute. If they were busy or uninterested,
I wished them a good day and moved on. I kept the needs of the student central
to what I was saying, was concise whenever
possible out of respect for their time, and at the end asked them if they had
any questions, comments, or concerns. All this can be heard in the video. The
first five minutes is a recap for those on YouTube, but the rest is all new. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier
in <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">this series</a> we discussed <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/misandry-in-education-part-3-more-rape.html">the vagina monologues</a>, a Feminist university play
in which women dress up as vaginas, and where, in the original production, a
13-year-old girl is given drinks by a
24-year-old lesbian until she becomes drunk, has sex with her, and
afterward says “If it was rape, it was a
good rape.” This play was performed on college campuses across the west for
years with no objection by the academic community. From the magazine The National
Review we hear of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Farticle%2Fsociety-and-culture%2Fwhy-cant-they-just-get-along%2F&session_token=xeRp9Xu1R3M9EwboSZrPZu3nNmt8MTM1NjI2ODc3NEAxMzU2MTgyMzc0">a much lighter version of the play</a>, with a twist:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="drop"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">C</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">ollege administrators have been enthusiastic
supporters of Eve Ensler’s play The
Vagina Monologues and schools across the nation celebrate “V-Day” (short
for Vagina Day) every year. But when the College Republicans at Roger Williams
University in Rhode Island rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating
Penis Day and staging a satire called The
Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror. Two participating
students, Monique Stuart and Andy Mainiero, have just received sharp letters of
reprimand and have been placed on probation by the Office of Judicial Affairs. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The costume of the P-Day “mascot” — a friendly looking “penis” named
Testaclese, has been confiscated and is under lock and key in the office of the
assistant dean of student affairs, John King. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The P-Day satirists are the first to admit that
their initiative is tasteless and crude. But they rightly point out that V-Day
is far more extreme. They are shocked that the administration has come down
hard on their good-natured spoof, when all along it has been completely
accommodating to the in-your-face vulgarity of the vagina activists. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">V-Day has now replaced Valentine’s Day on more
than 500 college campuses (<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200502151017.asp">including Catholic ones</a>). The
high point of the day is a performance of Ensler’s raunchy play, which consists
of various women talking in graphic, and I mean graphic, terms about their
intimate anatomy. The play is poisonously anti-male. Its only romantic scene,
if you can call it that, takes place when a 24-year-old woman seduces a young
girl (in the original version she was 13 years old, but in a more recent
version is played as a 16-year-old.) The woman invites the girl into her car,
takes her to her house, plies her with vodka, and seduces her. What might seem
like a scene from a public-service kidnapping-prevention video shown to
schoolchildren becomes, in Ensler’s play “a kind of heaven.” </span></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lollipops. Vagina lollipops.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The week before V-Day, the Roger Williams campus
was plastered with flyers emblazoned with slogans such as “My Vagina is Flirty”
and “My Vagina is Huggable.” There was a widely publicized “orgasm workshop.”
On the day of the play, the V-warriors sold lollipops in the in the shape
of–-guess what? Last year, the student union was flooded with questionnaires
asking unsuspecting students questions like “What does your Vagina smell like?”
None of this offended the administration or elicited any reprimands,
probations, or confiscations.</span></i></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUiMoG7JSnXBctYtNWB2IoSoYOrGtWXCtRb3DQNHRVCeTawhjze_eW7zsrctWbdY1wnAnMIitNGCzKDuJgd3EMJAMiUw8c6kWfr9z444n3WtmGw9kMtQ6lbVyHETV26lEZrr0YpL1JVV5/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUiMoG7JSnXBctYtNWB2IoSoYOrGtWXCtRb3DQNHRVCeTawhjze_eW7zsrctWbdY1wnAnMIitNGCzKDuJgd3EMJAMiUw8c6kWfr9z444n3WtmGw9kMtQ6lbVyHETV26lEZrr0YpL1JVV5/s200/images.jpg" width="168" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The campus conservatives artfully (in the college
sense of "artful") mimicked the V-Day campaign. They papered the
school with flyers that said, “My penis is majestic” and “My penis is
hilarious.” The caption on one handout read, “My Penis is studious.” It showed
Testaclese reclining on a couch reading Michael Barone’s <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1400053242">Hard America,
Soft America</a>. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“Testaclese” tipped the scales when he approached the university
Provost, Edward J. Kavanagh, outside the student union. Apparently taking
him/it for a giant mushroom, Provost Kavanagh cheerfully greeted him. But when
Testaclese presented him with an honorary award as a campus “Penis Warrior,”
the stunned official realized that it was no mushroom. After this incident,
which was recorded on videotape, the promoters of P-Day were ordered to cease
circulating their flyers and to keep Testaclese off campus grounds. Mindful of
how school officers had never once protested any of the antics of Vagina
warriors, the P-warriors did not comply. The Testaclese costume was then
confiscated and formal charges followed.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It is easy to understand why school officials would not want a
six-foot phallus wandering around campus; nor why they would ask students not
to paper the college with posters describing all the things it likes to do. But
that is just the sort of thing the vagina warriors have been doing, year after
year, on hundreds of campuses. In fact, P-Day at Roger Williams was mild by
comparison. Wesleyan College hosted a “C***” workshop; Penn State held a
“C***”-fest [both of which were named after crass four-letter names for female
genitalia]. At Arizona State, students displayed a 40-foot inflatable plastic
vagina. It was not confiscated and no one was ever threatened with probation. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Unhappily, P-Day may be the only effective means of countering V-Day
with all its c-fests, graphic lollipops, intrusive questionnaires, outsized
effigies of vaginas and its thematic anti-male play. The prospect of public
readings from P-Monologues on campuses around the country just might be the
reductio ad absurdum that could drive the vagina warriors to the bargaining
table. The student activists opposed to V-Day will gladly cancel P-Day the
moment the V-warriors abandon their vagina–fests. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">But for the short term, college administrators should brace
themselves. The rebels at Roger Williams are talking about a Free Testaclese
Fund. And word is spreading to other campuses. P-Day and Testaclese will be
back next year. And not just in Rhode Island. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why
is it the case among some faculty and administrators that sexual expression is pornographic
– and hence crude – only when it is displayed by men? When we covered rape hysteria by students, we discussed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecrimson.com%2Farticle%2F2003%2F2%2F24%2Fruined-snow-penis-stimulates-debate-when%2F&session_token=xeRp9Xu1R3M9EwboSZrPZu3nNmt8MTM1NjI2ODc3NEAxMzU2MTgyMzc0">the story from the student newspaper Harvard Crimson</a>, in which a few Harvard students built a
9-foot “snow penis” on campus, which was torn down by a Feminist student who equated
the erection of the sculpture to the support for rape. But focusing here
on faculty and administrators, it is the section featuring a professor that
presently concerns us:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Women’s Studies Lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld, who
teaches Women, Violence and the Law this semester, said that the implications
of the snow phallus go beyond the legitimacy of the statue’s presence. “The ice
sculpture was erected in a public space, one that should be free from menacing
reminders of women’s sexual vulnerability,” Rosenfeld wrote in an e-mail
yesterday.”</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">She said the snow penis follows a long line of
public phallic symbols, including the Washington Monument and missiles. “Women
do not need to be reminded of the power of the symbol of the male genitalia,”
Rosenfeld said. “My guess is that they are constantly reminded of it in daily
messages.” A discussion about feminist perspectives on the statue, sponsored by
the Radcliffe Union of Students, will take place Tuesday night in the Adams
House small dining room.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some
questions come to mind: based on what we have seen so far, is it likely that this Feminist
perspective will be one that values male and female sexuality equally, or is it
more likely to be a perspective that attaches a positive sign to one and a
negative sign to the other? If the latter is the case, is it then more likely
or less likely that the students will adopt the anti-male attitudes of their
professors and join with her in contributing to a hostile learning environment
for male students? And if such is the case, could we be making a better use of
our academic institutions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Christina Hoff-Sommers, a Feminist who
disagrees with much of establishment Feminism, tells us in her book <i>Who Stole Feminism</i> of the driving
attitudes behind this reform project:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The New
Jersey Project for reforming the public schools circulated a document entitled
“Feminist Scholarship guidelines.” The first guideline is unexceptionable:
“Feminist scholars seek to recover the lost work and thought of women in all
areas of human endeavor.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sounds good so far. Hoff-Sommers next
says, “Feminist scholarship begins with an awareness that much previous
scholarship has offered a white, male, Eurocentric, heterosexist, and elite
view of ‘reality.’”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Men have all the best jobs! Male privilege!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a typical Feminist argument in
academia: that scholarship has historically focused on the “greats” in society
and history: war generals, presidents, great poets and great artists. In other
words, people, ideas, and events who and which are “at the top,” and are the
movers and shakers of the world. Their approach sounds benevolent, until you
consider the fact that it’s not like they care about the under-representation of
men at the bottom of society: the common man who died in the coal mine, or the
lowly and unnamed soldier. We will explore more of this vein of thought more fully
elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I include such quotes to demonstrate that these so-called scholarly guidelines
aim to teach people – usually people who sit on committees and decide what gets
published - to recognize how male scholars (allegedly) have traditionally
thought, and once they are aware of it, to move away from publishing such
material. But problems emerge when Feminist professors begin to stereotype what
they believe to be male “ways of knowing,” or as they might instead say,
“phallocentric epistemologies.” Dr. Hoff-Sommers goes on to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The
guidelines elaborate on the attitude toward masculinist scholarship and methods
by quoting the Feminist theorist Elizabeth Fee [who says]: “Knowledge was
created by an act of aggression – a passive nature had to be interrogated,
unclothed, penetrated, and compelled by man to reveal her secrets.” Fee’s
resentment and suspicion of male “ways of knowing” follows a path well-trodden
by such Feminist thinkers as Mary Ellman, [professor] Catharine MacKinnon, and
Sandra Harding, whose views of patriarchal knowledge and science have quickly
become central gender feminist doctrine. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Playing on
the biblical double meaning of knowing to refer both to intercourse and to
cognition, Ellman and MacKinnon claim that men approach nature as rapists
approach a woman, taking joy in violating “her,” in “penetrating” her secrets.
Feminists, says MacKinnon, have finally realized that for men, “to know has
meant to fuck.” In a similar mood, Sandra Harding suggests that Newton’s
Principles of Mechanics could just as aptly be called “Newton’s Rape Manual”
(page 66).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why does everything have to be about rape
to certain Feminists? One might think that if they actually cared about expanding
women’s autonomy, they would recognize that there is enough fear of rape in the
world without needing to make it up out of nothing. But this is precisely the
opposite of what they do. In the Chapter Five of Who Stole Feminism, Dr. Hoff-Sommers
tells us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Women:
A Feminist Perspective<i> is said to be the best-selling women’s studies textbook
of all time. The first selection, “Sexual Terrorism” by Carole J. Sheffield, is
a good example of how the Feminist classroom can “infuse” anxiety and rage.”
Ms. Sheffield describes an “ordinary” event that took place early one evening
when she was alone in a Laundromat: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“The
Laundromat was brightly lit; and my car was the only one in the lot. Anyone
passing by could readily see that I was alone and isolated. Knowing that rape
is a crime of opportunity, I became terrified.” Ms. Sheffield left her laundry
in the washer and dashed back to her car, sitting in it with the doors locked
and the windows up. [Sheffield goes on to say] “When the wash was completed, I
dashed in, threw the clothes into the drier, and ran back out to my car. When
the clothes were dry, I tossed them recklessly into the basket and hurriedly
drove away to fold them in the security of my house. Although I was not
victimized in a direct, physical way or by objective or measurable standards, I
felt victimized. It was, for me, a terrifying experience.” At home, her terror
subsides and turns to anger: “Mostly I was angry at being unfree: a hostage of
a culture that, for the most part, encourages violence against females,
instructs men in the methodologies of sexual violence, and provides them with
ready justification for their violence…following my experience at the
Laundromat, I talked with my students about terrorization” </i>(87-88).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If this event had occurred late at night –
say, after dark – it would be understandable to possess a reasonable fear of
being out alone – regardless as to whether one is female or male. But the
timeframe of this event is “early one evening,” before dark. There is a fine
line between prudence and paranoia, and by the time of day we are able to
reasonably infer that she is crossing it. And more: she is teaching her
students to see the imminent threat of rape everywhere. There are some people who
are so strongly bound in the clutches of their self-imposed fears that they
lack the ability to perform basic functions during normal daytime hours. What
is often missed in such an approach is that we cannot empower women by teaching
them to limit their autonomy by pretending they are always in danger of
victimization when they are not. And we cannot build respect between both sexes
by teaching one sex the irrational fear of the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Daphne
Patai and Norette Koertge, two former women’s studies professors, interviewed
women’s studies students and recorded their perspectives in their book <i>Professing Feminism</i>. Here is one
student’s experiences, which deserves to be quoted at length:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Caroline, a social worker in her mid-twenties,
says that the one Women’s Studies course she took at a private women’s college
was more than enough. Caroline deplores ‘this ongoing knee-jerk reverse sexism
which <b>everyone</b> tolerated and
encouraged.” She later says, “The course was Introduction to Women’s Studies. I
was a senior, and I was, I think, pretty confident by that time, and I remember
clashing with the professor very quickly…In the class I took, the answer was
always ‘men.’ Whatever the question was, the answer was ‘men.’ It could be,
‘What style of architecture is that?’ And the answer is, ‘Men’s architecture.’
Or, ‘Who contributes to all the violence in the world?’ ‘Men.’ ‘Who’s
responsible for everything we endure?’ ‘Men.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“I was involved with a man at the time, and I
thought that he didn’t fit their categories of what men were like. And I also
saw him as having been pressed into stereotypes of his own. When he’d been in
high school, he took up computers. He’d been very nonathletic, hated team
sports, wanted to read, wanted to fuss with his computers. And he was called a
nerd and hassled constantly over this and abused in various ways.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>And I felt like I really identified with that –
I hadn’t been all that feminine in high school. I wore a black leather jacket,
hung out with the guys, and people had made fun of me. I hadn’t been desirable
as a woman; he hadn’t been desirable as a man…so I guess I was interested in a
more global analysis, like: What is it in our society that creates some of
these tensions? What is it that we’re doing to ourselves here? I’m not saying I
wanted the whole course to be about this, but these questions weren’t
acceptable at all, and I felt the professor responded really aggressively to
me.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“The time that it really sort of came to a head
was when we were talking about rape: ‘Rape – the act of violence that men do to
women, that men do to women because they want to keep them down.’ And we got
all these reasons why men rape women. And I thought, well, there’s this act of
violence of men against women, and why don’t we explore a little bit why people
are so frustrated and so violent and so angry that they do these things? And
why don’t we take into consideration that men get raped too?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I had a friend in high school, a man, who was
raped by a bunch of other men his age, and when I tried to enter this
information, it was met with a stone wall: ‘Those statistics are insignificant
compared with how many women are raped.’ And I thought, Well, how many men are
reporting it? And why are you discounting what I’m trying to share here, which
would be adding to the picture?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>And I don’t remember the comment the professor
made, but it was very condescending, to the effect: ‘Are you saying that
rapists are just poor misunderstood people who should be patted on the back and
sent out?’ And I’m thinking: You miserable bitch! You know, she was really like
‘Let me humiliate you in front of everyone,’ because of course, that was not
what I was saying!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“I have friends who’ve been raped; it’s not like
some far-away thing to me. It’s something to get really angry about and be
upset about, but something to search for a better solution to than castration!
But the only solution the professor was getting at was that men are the problem
and without men there’d be a solution. There was no talk of real solutions </i>(82-84).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A poster at UCLA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When discussing rape hysteria by students,
we covered numerous demonstrations by primarily Feminist students, the attitudes
of which were pervasively one of spite and hostility toward men and boys. At
the end of those videos questions that are worth asking again: does this
approach work toward helping victims of rape, or encourage others to work
toward helping victims of rape? And if it is not about helping victims of rape,
what is it really about? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freshman orientation at 60 colleges</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now that we are knee-deep in discussing rape
hysteria by faculty and administrators, the time has come to ask the question:
where are these students who we discussed in our earlier videos getting their anti-male
attitudes? Are these students just randomly and out of the blue waking up one
day with an attitude of hostility toward men and boys, or is that attitude
being taught? We will continue to explore these questions in our next video in
this series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moving forward in <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">this series</a>, we hear
<a href="http://www.marshallparthenon.com/women-s-studies-students-propose-24-hour-truce-1.2656168#.UJ4POPnsYTc">this story from The Pantheon</a>, Marshall University’s student newspaper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A
Women's Studies class from Marshall University is extending a list they
compiled from a writing assignment in hopes to raise awareness during Domestic
Violence Awareness Month. The
students in Laura Diener's Women Studies 101 class compiled "I want a
twenty-four-hour truce" from their own papers. The idea for the list came
from a speech given by Andrea Dworkin in 1983.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article later says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“The
idea is that coming from the Andrea Dworkin piece," Diener said. "We
can't have a 24-hour truce with rape, it's impossible, which is such a sad
thing. We can't have a truce with no violence, we can't have a truce with no
rape, we can't have one with no cruelty but we want that and the fact that we
can't have these simply things show some of the major problems in our
society"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Diener
said this assignment is in context with other assignments where students write
down their biggest fears, and amazingly they always include sexual assault and
violence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The
overall goal is to show the way that individual students are responding to some
traditional feminist pieces," Diener said. "The way that this piece
was written several decades ago, the way that it's still really relevant today,
the way it shows that rape and sex violence is a fear that really haunts
Marshall University students today."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Andrea
Dworkin is a Radical Feminist. To give a picture of her particular flavor of
Feminism, in her book <i>Letters from a War
Zone</i>, the same book in which her speech on a 24-hour truce is found, she
writes things like this:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"One can know everything and still be unable to
accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so
that the one without the imminent possibility of the other is unthinkable and
impossible." - <i>Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, </i>p. 21.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elsewhere in the same book she says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The newest variations on this distressingly ancient theme center
on hormones and DNA: men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were
awash in androgen; their DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into
murder and rape." – Andrea Dworkin, <i>Letters
from a War Zone</i>, p. 114</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And from another publication:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also
the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," - Andrea Dworkin<i>, Our Blood, </i>p. 20</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.
Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage
meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession
of, or ownership. Only when manhood is dead--and it will perish when ravaged femininity
no longer sustains it - <span class="st">only then will we know what it is to be
free.” – Andrea Dworkin, <i>Pornography</i></span></span></div>
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These are a
few of the many morally questionable statements by Andrea Dworkin. Dworkin was
one of the most vitriolic preachers of hatred that has ever walked the Earth,
and one thing she devoted an inordinate amount of time to was equating the
normal desires and functions of men with rape. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"She Fears You," by Keith Edwards</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But let us consider <a href="http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIIE.html">her speech, which the students were required to read</a> in professor Laura Diener’s women’s studies
class. Andrea Dworkin originally gave this speech at the National
Organization for Changing Men, which was later renamed <a href="http://www.nomas.org/principles">the National Organization of Men Against Sexism,or NOMAS</a>. NOMAS, as they declare on their website, is a part of the
pro-feminist men’s movement. This puts them in the same ideological camp as
Keith Edwards, who gave the presentation “She Fears You” at 60 colleges and
universities, and who we discussed in <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/rape-hysteria-by-faculty-and.html">the last post in this series</a>. NOMAS is also, as you
might guess, an organization of academics, particularly from Men’s Studies, a
field often hosted by those who bear the same attitudes as Keith Edwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her speech, Dworkin calls
upon the men at NOMAS to organize among all men a day in which rape does not
occur. Due to space constraints I will not present her entire speech here, but
rather a few selections. Keep in mind as we go through her statements that this
is how Dworkin treated those who are the most sympathetic to her worldview. She
says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“I have thought a great deal about how a feminist, like myself, addresses
an audience primarily of political men who say that they are antisexist. And I
thought a lot about whether there should be a qualitative difference in the
kind of speech I address to you. And then I found myself incapable of
pretending that I really believe that that qualitative difference exists. I
have watched the [pro-feminist] men's movement for many years. I am close with
some of the people who participate in it. I can't come here as a friend even
though I might very much want to. What I would like to do is to scream.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"I think
that you rightly perceive--without being willing to face it politically--that
men are very dangerous: because you are."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“What's involved in doing something about all of this? The [pro-feminist]
men's movement seems to stay stuck on two points. The first is that men don't
really feel very good about themselves. How could you?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Have
you ever wondered why we are not just in armed combat against you? It's not
because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we
believe in your humanity, against all the evidence."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“The shame
of men in front of women is, I think, an appropriate response both to what men
do and to what men do not do. I think you should be ashamed."</i></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">"I mean that there is a relationship between the way
that women are raped and your socialization to rape and the war machine that
grinds you up and spits you out: the war machine that you go through just like
that woman went through Larry Flynt's meat grinder on the cover of Hustler. </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">You da</span>mn
well better believe that you're involved in this tragedy and that it's your
tragedy too. Because you're turned into little soldier boys from the day that
you are born and everything that you learn about how to avoid the humanity of
women becomes part of the militarism of the country in which you live and the
world in which you live. It is also part of the economy that you frequently
claim to protest."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“And the problem is that you think it's out there:
and it's not out there. It's in you.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day
in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to
the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for
less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even
in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for
one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we can see, Dworkin believes that men
as a group make war upon women as a group, a situation for which all men are collectively
guilty. She believes all men are socialized with the proclivity to rape. She
believes there is no qualitative difference between men who are sympathetic to
her concerns, and men who are not, and that all men deserve to be collectively
punished and shamed. My concern is that when women’s studies professors teach
the writings of Andrea Dworkin, they are not just teaching students her words;
they are teaching students her attitudes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And although the misandry in Dworkin’s
writings vary in terms of how explicit and extreme it is, the same
dichotomization of “us versus them” with “us” being all women and “them” being <i>all men,</i> the same characterization of
men as a group being “all in it together,” and the portrayal of women as
completely devoid of agency, is a consistent theme in her work. But how prominent
is work like hers in academia?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Feminist Jurisprudence</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you read the anthology <i>Feminist Jurisprudence</i>, which primarily features
the work of Feminist legal theorists in academia, you will find not only the
writings of Andrea Dworkin’s, but also the writings of Radical Feminist
professors such as Catharine MacKinnon and Ann Scales. In this anthology, you
will find a section devoted exclusively to Radical Feminism, where the ideology
– which is widely regarded as one of hatred and intolerance – is instead presented
as a legitimate school of thought worthy of sanctuary in our academic
institutions. In another academic publication <i>Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence</i>, which is taught in classes
on legal theory, you will find similar sections set aside for Radical Feminism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A dissenting Feminist and former women’s
studies professor named Daphne Patai says in her book Heterophobia: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In late
February 1998, I attended a conference on sexual harassment held at Yale
University…many luminaries were there, including Catharine MacKinnon herself.
At the conference’s opening session, Andrea Dworkin, the radical
feminist…informed the audience of several hundred people that the “backlash”
began when white middle-class men saw that sexual harassment law was going to
affect them. This reaction, Dworkin thoughtfully suggested, showed us that
“millions of men wanted to have a young woman at work to suck their cock.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Did anyone
rise to contest such outrageous slander directed at all or even most men? On
the contrary. It is hard to imagine any other group of people in the United
States today who could be so crassly maligned in a public setting without
arousing immediate protest </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">(6-8)."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would like to take a second to
accentuate the fact that these things are occurring at such schools as Harvard and
Yale University. <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/misandry-in-education-part-1-duke.html">The infamous 2006 false rape case</a>, in which 88 faculty
speaking for five academic departments and 10 academic programs ganged up on
three falsely accused students and presumed their guilt based on nothing more
than their genetic code, occurred at Duke University, a school which is
nicknamed “the Harvard of the South.” In their in-house publishing company,
Princeton University publishes <i>The Canon
of American Legal Thought</i>. A canon, in academic terms, is what the
Victorian poet Matthew Arnold said, “the best that has been thought and written.”
In the table of contents for this publication, we find that for each stratum of
philosophy there are a variety of authors giving voice to each. But when we
come to section where gender theory intersects with legal theory, <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/TOCs/c8318.html">we find one voice alone representing that school of legal thought: Radical Feminist professor Catharine MacKinnon.</a> We will discuss MacKinnon in more detail later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is important to take away from this
is that these are not backwoods community colleges tucked away in a geographic
corner and marginalized from the discourse on what constitutes acceptable
academic practice and philosophy. These are Ivy League institutions that set
the standard not only for their respective schools, but for much of the
academic establishment in the Western world. What is supported by one Ivy
league school will be supported by a thousand more for that fact alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The prevalence of misandry in some of our
most prestigious schools is not that surprising when you think about it. Being
among the top tier institutions, they have a natural incentive to recruit the
newest and most cutting edge scholars who promote philosophies that push the
boundaries. Unfortunately, one of those newest philosophies is Radical
Feminism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cathy Young is an
old-school Feminist who disagrees with what she calls “establishment Feminism.”
In <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/18/the_misdirected_passion_of_andrea_dworkin/">an article in the Boston Globe</a>, she writes: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Critics of radical feminism
have been often accused of exaggerating the importance of a handful of
male-haters in the movement. Yet Dworkin was never relegated to the lunatic
fringe where she belonged: her texts have been widely assigned in women's
studies courses, and prominent feminists from activist Gloria Steinem to
philosopher Martha Nussbaum have offered their praise, treating her
hatemongering as extremism in defense of the oppressed.”</i> – Cathy Young, Boston
Globe, April 2005</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But Andrea Dworkin’s work is not just advocated in classes on Women’s
studies. Her work is also picked up by other academics, such as professor Robert Jensen
of UT Austin, who in his closing speech at the [pro-Feminist] Men's Action Network <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvZee1gh3N4t=53m52s">concludes with the closing remarks of Andrea Dworkin's "truce" speech</a>, saying to men:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>"We do not want to do the work of helping you to believe in your own humanity. We cannot do it anymore. We have always tried. We have been repaid with systematic exploitation and systematic abuse. You're going to have to do this by yourselves from now on, and you now it."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jensen later says that "that is really the challenge: for us to take up the gift that Feminism has offered us." I do agree with professor Jensen on some
things: extreme Feminism does present us with a challenge. And I also agree
with professor Jensen that men do need to assert their humanity, and that
Radical Feminism will not be helping us get there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will explore more of the
phenomenon of rape hysteria by faculty and administrators in our next post in
this series.</span></div>
TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-17923268559085980412012-12-19T05:17:00.004-08:002012-12-19T05:23:40.205-08:00Agents of Misandry Protest Freedom of Speech and Association - Warren Farrell, JohntheOther<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently my video on this matter has become more popular than I anticipated. Warren Farrell, perhaps the most gentle, conciliatory, and patient advocate for men and boys, was set to speak at the University of Toronto about the decline of men and boys in education and elsewhere. A group of Feminists, deluded into thinking it was part of some kind of backlash, showed up to protest. They carried signs which took out of context and distorted some of Farrell's work, which I discuss in-context in my video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I support their right to speak their minds (though I disagree with the content of their protest), they unfortunately went beyond merely expressing their own perspectives as
protestors and began to actively suppress the freedom of speech and assembly of those who wished to hear Farrell speak. They formed a human barricade and actively prevented people who paid to attend from entering the event, called them "fucking scum" and "rape apologists" for merely wishing to hear him speak, and generally behaving in an aggressive, threatening, and obscene manner. In so doing, they revealed themselves to be the hateful totalitarians they truly are. Thanks to their inability to conceal their hatred, we recruited a great many to the movement for equality men and boys that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is becoming an increasingly common thread in the Feminist backlash to the emergence of a voice for equality for men and boys: instead of making coherent and logical arguments, they seek to actively suppress the freedom of speech of advocates for equality for men and boys. It has also happened in Canada, where JohntheOther, posting flyers saying "you don't hate and fear women/gays/lesbians/blacks/jews, do you? No, because you are a decent human being" and ended by saying, "you don't hate and fear men, do you?" The Feminists claimed that it was "hate speech" and summarily tore down his flyers, <u><i>which he posted on private property with permission from the owner</i></u>. When JohntheOther objected to their tearing down his flyers and suppressing his freedom of speech, the Feminists defended their actions by claiming that <u><i>their act of censorship is their own form of expression of free speech.</i></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The video will explain these events in greater detail.</span><br />
<br />TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-24347441374282313092012-11-09T19:08:00.001-08:002012-11-10T04:10:11.340-08:00Thanks to NCFM!<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the National Coalition for Men </span><a href="http://ncfm.org/2012/11/news/discrimination-against-men-news/the-war-on-male-students-misandrys-war-on-men/"><span style="font-size: large;">for raising awareness of The War on Male Students</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> by posting links to the series at their national website, as well as the sites of several of their chapters. The president of NCFM, Harry Crouch, described the series on his website:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>This must see, fair and balanced, pro-human, anti War on Men
video series should be shown in all appropriate school classes and age
groups. If you are reading this you have an opportunity to see it now.
Make sure everyone you know watches the series too. Doing so will help
reverse the anti-male attitudes and the <u>War on Men</u> in education
and elsewhere. The message of this series when distributed by viewers
will help reduce false accusations of rape, as well as false allegations
of other forms of violence, sexual and otherwise. This series shames
many who work in post secondary schools who allow ideology to drown
common sense and civility. Click on the picture to get started.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to NCFM!</span><br />
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-63449650356147521542012-11-08T03:11:00.000-08:002012-11-08T14:04:38.129-08:00Rape Hysteria by Faculty and Administrators, Part 1 / Misandry in Education<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">In other videos on rape
hysteria in education we discussed misandry by students. The time has come to
more closely examine the role of faculty and administrators in creating and
maintaining the culture of hostility toward male students in our education
system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">At Vassar College, two
male students were falsely accused of date rape. When they were found innocent,
the assistant dean of students Catherine Comins argued that men who are
unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. Her argument is quoted
in an article by Nancy Gibbs in </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157165,00.html"><span style="font-size: large;">the June 2001 online edition of TIME magazine</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">.
Comins says of the falsely accused, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">“They have a lot of pain,
but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it
ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I
didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what
they say I did?' Those are good questions."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let
us remember that an assistant dean of students is the administrator who either
adjudicates rape accusations, or presides over a panel consisting of faculty
and sometimes students who adjudicate rape accusations. If a male assistant
dean of students had suggested that women who are raped can gain from the
experience, and that it is not an experience he would necessarily have spared
them, how long would he have been an assistant dean of students? Male
professors and administrators have been forced by others in education to apologize,
or have been fired, for saying much less. But when Catherine Comins made the
statement that male students essentially deserve to be falsely accused of rape,
there was no outrage. There was no apology. There was nothing. It was one of
the many anti-male elements that the culture of higher education just passed
over as if nothing unexpected had happened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">From
the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we hear </span><a href="http://thefire.org/article/12301.html"><span style="font-size: large;">this story</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">[F]irst-year men at Hamilton College will be attending a mandatory
presentation of "</span><a href="http://www.menendingrape.org/SFYpresent.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">She Fears You</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">," a program
at which they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal complicity in a
"rape culture" on Hamilton's campus and to change their
"rape-supportive" beliefs and attitudes. First-year men were informed
via </span><a href="http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/12300.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">e-mail</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> that attendance was
required and that they needed to bring their ID cards. "She Fears
You" will be presented by </span><a href="http://www.keithedwards.us/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Keith Edwards</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">,"a national
speaker and trainer on diversity and social justice and college men's issues
[which, by the way, Keith Edwards describes himself as on his website]."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">"She Fears You" is based on the </span><a href="http://www.menendingrape.org/theory.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">theory</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> that men need a "combined cognitive and
emotional intervention" in order to change their "rape-supportive
beliefs." Attendees will be </span><a href="http://www.menendingrape.org/video/conclusion.wmv"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">told</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> that when they “</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">make this an environment where it is no longer
acceptable in any way to objectify women or define masculinity as sexual
conquest, or subordinate women's intelligence, capability, and humanity, or
allow issues of racism, classism, and homophobia to go unabated, then this
campus will be a better place for all of us to be.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Don’t be misled by Keith
Edward’s claim that he supports college men’s issues. As we can see, it is
clear that She Fears You is not about addressing the needs of male students as
a group, such as inequities concerning educational attainment:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Keith Edwards is part of what is called the pro-Feminist men’s
movement. It is the men’s auxiliary wing of the Feminism, which is primarily found
in academia.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">First,
why the title She Fears You? Are male students as a group categorically deserving
of fear? Is any group categorically deserving of fear? It is also a
well-documented criminological fact that people of color tend to commit violent
crime, and in particular gang violence, at a higher rate than white people.
Would it then be right for our universities to declare that black students as a
group are categorically deserving of fear simply because they are black? What
if, instead of stopping male violence against women, our universities want to
stop violence black violence against white people by hosting an event titled
“Whites Fear You” and forcing only black students to attend? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXGxI16eAESysyluAJKTOkRlRFWywlYOtvzo3WpByXfw8JYMGu_TmhvpalNNlqrOHq8hPwGhd5lpfiMa0tnJgDkIrYwCXXoL1Ezd9CNKB0YJTXCpuLPlhyGnZnc728lCnU-T38rbpQXYM/s1600/HU+-+SFY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXGxI16eAESysyluAJKTOkRlRFWywlYOtvzo3WpByXfw8JYMGu_TmhvpalNNlqrOHq8hPwGhd5lpfiMa0tnJgDkIrYwCXXoL1Ezd9CNKB0YJTXCpuLPlhyGnZnc728lCnU-T38rbpQXYM/s320/HU+-+SFY.jpg" width="287" /></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you listen to the video, you will hear Edwards express regret over his humanity being taken away for being presumed a potential rapist simply for walking near women at night. But should his humanity
be taken away simply because he is male? Is it the responsibility of every male
student to prove that they are not rapists? Or - to use role reversal - is it
the responsibility of any given black person to prove that he or she is a “good
black person” unlike all those “other black people?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thefire.org/article/12318.html">This is the email</a> from Hamilton College’s Dean of Students Nancy Thompson regarding
the event:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<tt><strong><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Men</span></strong></tt><tt><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> are<span style="color: red;"> <em><u>required</u></em></span> to attend</span></tt><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">She Fears You</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">A presentation by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Keith Edwards, founder of Men Ending Rape<br /> <br /> <strong>Monday, September 27</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Chapel</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Please be sure to bring your Hill Card</strong></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><a href="http://staging.thefire.org/article/12358.html">As FIRE later reports</a>:</span></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">More than two weeks have passed since
Keith Edwards delivered his "She Fears You" presentation at Hamilton
College, yet Hamilton has still not responded to FIRE's </span><a href="http://www.thefire.org/article/12299.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">letter</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> requesting that
attendance be made voluntary. Nor has Hamilton made any public statement about
the event. (The event also wasn't filmed, so non-attendees will never know
exactly what Edwards said that night.) <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">We may never know whether Hamilton is
too embarrassed to explain whether it really believes there is a "rape
culture" on campus, or whether Hamilton is so arrogant as to choose not to
engage its critics. But thanks to Managing Editor for Commentary (and former FIRE
intern) J.P. Freire </span><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/hamilton-college-requires-rape-culture-shaming-session-for-men-104800729.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">in
the <em><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Washington Examiner</span></em></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, we now have a better idea of
Edwards', shall we say, difficult to reconcile views on freedom of speech and
conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">We appreciate the fact that Edwards
took J.P.'s call. Edwards freely revealed that he usually charges $2,000 for a
"She Fears You" lecture, but depending upon demand for a longer
visit, that price could rise to $5,000 or even $10,000. <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">How
many of these lectures has Edwards given? On his website he gives <a href="http://www.menendingrape.org/clients.htm">a list of 60 colleges and universities</a>. Since the list ends in 2010, it is also possible
that list might not be updated, and that there may be more. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">In
academia, where you make a living from promoting ideas, you can make misandry
into a career. As we recall from <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/misandry-in-education-part-1-duke.html">the blog post/video on the Duke lacrosse false rape case</a>, when the group of 88 professors publicly signed a statement that presumed
the three male students guilty simply because they were male, professor KC Johnson told the story of a women's studies professor who claimed that she entered higher education because it gave her the opportunity to "explore the idea that women were superior and that a new world could be built on that superiority."</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond
asking what the presentation “She Fears You” says about Keith Edwards as an
individual, more importantly, what does it say about the culture of the
colleges and universities who not only gave it their stamp of approval, but
paid thousands of dollars for this kind of presentation? If they are buying what
he is selling, is the problem just Keith Edwards? And this is one thing that we
will repeatedly come back to, because it is so central to understanding and addressing
the systemic neglect and abuse of male students: the problem is not individuals
like Keith Edwards, or Catherine Comins, or Kathy Rudy, or the rest of the individuals
we will address in this series; the problem is the academic culture that
creates and supports them. And so long as we focus exclusively on individual
cases and fail to acknowledge that culture, we are missing the bigger picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Keith
Edwards is right about one thing: the widespread dehumanization of men and boys
is indeed a direct product of rape hysteria in our education system. [PLAY:]
“My humanity is damn important to me and I don’t know how to do that.” Where we
disagree is that Edwards believes in not only giving in to his own
dehumanization, but also teaching men and boys to do the same, while I believe
that the correct way is to assert your humanity by dissenting with the
perspective that men and boys are deserving of fear simply because they are
male.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvPB1kvjfh77KsOM8sP_7I7APJ8_flOMuKx_TtztJEe8e9OPyJ-8kJG_uwwRZDaOwqADyi2uTCPz6Wl9Vpfc5a3jRVoU9bFWnQDw__MLupc_oBkVSzu1gzy-fC2rx7n93uGlfIQ7_TlS3/s1600/poster.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvPB1kvjfh77KsOM8sP_7I7APJ8_flOMuKx_TtztJEe8e9OPyJ-8kJG_uwwRZDaOwqADyi2uTCPz6Wl9Vpfc5a3jRVoU9bFWnQDw__MLupc_oBkVSzu1gzy-fC2rx7n93uGlfIQ7_TlS3/s640/poster.png" width="412" /></a><span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">If
this kind of presentation were directed toward any other group, our current
institutional champions of “diversity,” an ideological tribe of which Edwards
is a part, would have responded very differently. Instead of taking the message
at face value and asking “what is wrong with black people, or Hispanics, and so
forth, our universities would be asking the correct question: “what is wrong
with the culture of our educational institutions that we promote events
fostering prejudice and bigotry against our own students based upon their
membership in a particular genetic birth group? But they do not ask these
questions, which they would ask with any other group, because in the culture of
higher education, the system of moral checks and balances has broken down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
a facially lower-key presentation titled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rtQmDXfN0">"Asking for it,"</a> professor Harry
Brod of the University of Northern Iowa states that (concerning consent in sexual matters) "just because there's no 'no' does not mean there is a 'yes.'"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">So according
to Professor Brod, a woman who wants to have sex can nod her head, she can
wink, lick her lips, smile, grab a man’s penis and pull him into her, he can be
completely drunk and do nothing and she could be completely sober and make all
the initiating moves, but if she doesn’t specifically say “yes,” he’s a rapist.
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">This is not
the legal definition of sexual assault. This is an ideological and political
definition, under which I and many of my male friends are also rape victims.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">His rationale is a lesson from his driver's ed instructor from over forty years ago: that consent is like the right-of-way that someone else gives you, and that you are not entitled to by default.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond the obvious
problematic element that men and women are not cars and a woman’s vagina is not
a four-way intersection, there are other problems with his analogy – even if we
accept it as self-evident. For example, when drivers give others the right of
way, they do not rely on the other driver hearing their words, but by employing
a variety of gestures, many of which are non-verbal, such as flashing their
lights or using hand gestures – which is exactly what many people do when they
consent to sex, but do not necessarily say yes. Another problematic factor is
that when drivers approach intersections, many times they do not ask for or
give the right of way at all, but instead take turns based upon whether the signal
is green or red – another form of nonverbal communication.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">While <a href="http://www.harrybrod.com/index.php?p=1_2_Sexual-Consent">a disciple of Pro-Feminist ideology</a>, Harry Brod is actually <a href="http://www.uni.edu/philrel/faculty.shtml">a professor of philosophy and religion</a>. When it comes to ideologues among the faculty, it’s always
interesting to see student feedback. So I checked up on <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=184907&all=true">him atRatemyprofessors.com</a>. Here’s what two students had to say:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><em>His class was based on
personal agenda on his perception of men. Myself and others felt he attacked
men for being men, the class has little to do with masculinity as a whole. He
was most responsive to the women in the class speaking on men's issues solely
from a fem. perspective. Almost made men feel bad for being men. Very pompous
and not kind to men.</em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And another student commented, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hates himself for being
male, and loves radical feminism… Can I please have at least one teacher who
doesn't have an agenda? Come on!”<span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
hysteria concerning sexual assault on campus has reached such a fever pitch
that male students are now punished for promoting sexual violence for participating
in minor sexual humor that does not even involve women at all. <a href="http://staging.thefire.org/case/898">Another reportby the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</a> tells us:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VgV4nUPQq5Ts-TpSBMCqGhtm2UoVbYt8hP42HieftDI9EqDPZjPTcw6cIv4Pf_lTVVgf44FF10F5isJDcCOg7oodPdXIU8U8XLNQfZTSbq9zZIE0jQsKlmIfFAC1eJJXt__ggSoSeRyD/s1600/Cox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VgV4nUPQq5Ts-TpSBMCqGhtm2UoVbYt8hP42HieftDI9EqDPZjPTcw6cIv4Pf_lTVVgf44FF10F5isJDcCOg7oodPdXIU8U8XLNQfZTSbq9zZIE0jQsKlmIfFAC1eJJXt__ggSoSeRyD/s320/Cox.jpg" width="238" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">In April 2012, members of the men's crew team wore T-shirts at Tufts'
Spring Fling featuring a silhouette of a rowing team on a boat and the phrase
"check out our cox" (referring to a boat's coxswain [which is “</span></i><span class="ssens"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a
sailor who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew and who usually steers”]</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">). According to multiple accounts, several members were suspended from
the team after a bias incident report was submitted due to the shirt's content,
two senior captains were removed from their positions, and team members had to
write apology letters. The accounts reported a dean exerting disciplinary
pressure on the team, stating that the shirts promoted rape and aggression
toward women. Additionally, a confidential source reported to FIRE that Tufts'
rowing director ordered his assistants to choose a punishment, which he and the
dean's office would then approve.<span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
details of this report can be confirmed by reading <a href="http://blogs.tuftsdaily.com/?p=4970">Tufts Daily</a>, the
university’s student newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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a shirt reading “check out our cox” promotes rape and aggression? It’s times
like these that I don’t have to make an argument. Our education system writes
the argument for me. Unfortunately, however, we are not halfway done discussing
rape hysteria by faculty and administrators. We will discuss more in the future.</span></span></span></div>
TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-84716595028283697452012-10-31T00:54:00.002-07:002013-04-09T09:59:27.084-07:00The War on Male Students at A&M-Commerce<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Updated Jan. 28, 2013<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This page has been constructed by an alumnus and former instructor at A&M-Commerce. It is a table of contents page for the work done to address and raise awareness of the lack of protections and due process rights of male students accused of sexual assault at TAMU-C, as well as any other inequities facing male students that are neglected by the A&M-Commerce administration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In behalf of the male students at A&M-Commerce, I ask that anyone who is willing to please review the material and, if your heart leads you, to help raise awareness of the issues by posting the flyers provided, linking the articles and recordings provided by these links with friends or elsewhere on the internet, or using your creativity to do whatever you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Ceaseless industry, fearless investigation, and unfettered thought" is the motto of A&M-Commerce. To investigate, discuss, or raise awareness of corrupt power is a fulfillment of this mission.If anyone wishes to understand the basic dynamics of the situation, I
strongly recommend this talk by Margaret Heffernan on academic and
organizational dynamics that inhibit progress and positive change,
sponsored by Ted Talks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hopefully more will be added to this page as time goes on. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Also, if the administration sends out any emails regarding this issue, please forward them to me, even anonymously if you feel more comfortable doing so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- TCM </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">thecommonmanmedia@gmail.com </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Contents (click the titles to access the links):</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/email-exchanges.html">The Issues:</a></u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Contains my recorded interviews with A&M-Commerce administrators concerning its unjust sexual misconduct policy, its failure to discipline those who falsely accuse male teachers and students of rape, and its history of taking down YouTube videos recorded by students featuring professors who harass students. Also contains many informative links and resources for those wrongly accused of sexual assault.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/activism-speaking-to-students-about.html"><u>Raising Awareness<span style="font-size: large;"> Among the Student<span style="font-size: large;"> Community:</span></span></u></a></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the fall semester of 2012 I went to speak with <span style="font-size: large;">A&M-Commerce students about its unjust sexual misconduct policy. This was turned into an article and a v<span style="font-size: large;">ideo that was published at A Voice for Men.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/the-east-texan-speaks-up-for-the-wrongly-accused/">The East Texan Speaks up for the Wrongly Accused:</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After interviewing me, The East Texan, A&M-Commerce's student newspaper, published an editorial regarding the university's sexual misconduct policy. See it at our new website here.</span><br />
<br />TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-5335819730146801202012-10-05T06:14:00.004-07:002012-11-08T11:34:39.801-08:00Rape Hysteria by Students, Part 2 / Misandry in Education<center>
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University of Maryland is home to the Clothesline Project, which aims to empower
victims of sexual assault by setting aside a space where they can write
messages on t-shirts like “Every Day I Live Surviving Rape” and hang them up.
And I have to say that this is actually a creative way for victims of sexual
assault to have a voice, so I don’t disagree with the program in general; on
the contrary, I would actually support it. What I do disagree with is that for
17 years students were allowed to use this event to accuse male students of
rape by writing their first and last names on the shirts, and the male students
who were accused – regardless as to whether they were innocent or guilty - were
provided no platform with which to respond.</span></span></span><span class="lingoregion"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=346&sid=1261511">An article on the WTOP Radio website</a> tells the story:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A 17-year-old tradition is causing some controversy at the University of
Maryland. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“For the past
17 years, students have participated in a rape awareness program where victims
and advocates against sexual violence hang T-shirts along a huge clothesline on
campus. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The program
allows victims to turn their backs on the crime and have a voice. Some victims
also write the names of their assailants on their shirts. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But this
year, university lawyers are instructing participants not to write names on
shirts to avoid potential lawsuits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Of
course in a form of protest, we still are going to hang the shirts [with the
names on them]," says Khalifah, a UMd. student and member of the Student
Advocates for Education about Rape. "This is just another way we're
silencing sexual assault victims." </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Student
Advocates for Education about Rape group won't back down, Khalifah says. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"If it
means we have to go 60s style and do a boycott, and that's perfectly okay
too," she says. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Advocates
plan to meet with university lawyers on Monday. Students will begin hanging the
shirts on Oct. 11.</span></span></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">And </span><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-10-04/news/0710040164_1_clothesline-project-sexual-assault-assault-victims"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: blue;">an article in <em>The Baltimore Sun</em></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"> says:</span></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Linda Clement,
UM's vice president of student affairs, emphasized that the campus would not
seek to curtail individual student speech on campus, even potentially
slanderous speech. But she said that as a formal sponsor of the event, the
college had to consider its potential liability to people who might claim they were
falsely accused. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"It would be
different if an individual were going to write something on a shirt and put
something up individually," Clement said. "Then it would be free
speech. But if it is an office sponsoring an event, I think we have to adhere
to the law."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">David Rocah,
staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, said the
university's response is understandable. "Unless they were trying to
censor the students' own speech, I can see why they would want to disassociate
themselves from speech where they could potentially be viewed as the
publisher," he said. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“In defamation
cases, courts can hold the author and the publisher liable for false statements
that injure a person's reputation. Because the university officially endorses the
clothesline project -- and provides staff, marketing and other support -- it
might legally be considered a publisher, Rocah said.</span></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That argument
provided scant comfort this week to some students, who said they felt betrayed
by the administration, which has taken steps in recent years to make sexual
assault victims feel more comfortable reporting their experiences. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The
general consensus is we feel the university is protecting perpetrators rather
than victims," said Angela Boos, a junior. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Norcross
vowed that the banned shirts from this and previous years would be hung on
campus. "I don't know exactly what we're doing, but these shirts will be
displayed somehow."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some
students said they suspect the reason the university has taken action this year
is because at last semester's clothesline event, a shirt was hung accusing a
prominent former athlete. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">University
officials said they sought legal advice last semester after someone complained.
"The university's position is not influenced by any one individual,"
said spokesman Millree Williams. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In
the basement of the Stamp Student Union yesterday, tables were laid out with
paint, markers and old T-shirts for students to come in and decorate for
hanging. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Affixed
to a painter's easel was a note reading: "For legal reasons, the
University Health Center has decided that no shirt will be hung if it contains
both first and last names of perpetrators and/or specifically identifying
information. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hanging
from a clothesline on the other side of the room were shirts designed this
week, several with messages aimed not at alleged perpetrators of sex crimes,
but at campus administrators. </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A
white shirt read: "University Health Center administration = Office of the
Perpetrator Advocate."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">So for 17 years
at the University of Maryland, and perhaps at other universities that adopted
this kind of event, female students had the unquestioned and absolute power to
publicly brand any male student they wanted as a rapist. Any woman who wanted
to get revenge at their partner for breaking with her, or cheating on her, or
disagreeing with her, or not wanting to go out with her, or not paying enough
attention to them, or because he didn’t take the trash out, was allowed to do
so. And how did they rationalize this? Because female vulnerabilities are more
important than male vulnerabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">And here we also
see what anyone who dares to speak up for the wrongly accused should expect: to
be branded a rape apologist by those who do not care one bit about the needs
and vulnerabilities of the wrongly accused. It’s important to note that
university administrators did not start cracking down on this because they care
about male students who might be wrongly accused; they did it because not doing
so might be a legal liability for themselves. This is something that everyone
should understand about university administrators: if you have a genuine
concern about the needs of men and boys, they will help you to a point. But if
you really want them to make structural change for male students that may be
politically inconvenient, they will do nothing, until you play hardball by
finding ways to make not doing something a liability for the administration.
Their weak spots are the potential loss of public image and funding, which they
generally classify as liabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">There is also
some misinformation spread by the Clothesline Project that adds to the
hysteria. You can </span><a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/No_Means_No.htm"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">go to their website</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"> and see for yourself. For example,</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“Silence means no.” So a woman who wants to have sex can nod her head,
she can write it on paper, she can wink, lick her lips, smile, grab a man’s
penis and pull him into her, he can be completely drunk and do nothing but say
yes and she could be completely sober and make all the initiating moves, but if
she doesn’t say “no,” he’s a rapist. This is legally incorrect. There’s no
other way to say it; it’s just not the law. And according to this definition
I’m a rape victim myself. And so is my dad, my brother and all my other male
relatives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/Supporting_Survivors.htm"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/Supporting_Survivors.htm"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">Another problematic item:</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> “When someone says they are a victim of false
accusations, BELIEVE THEM! It is not your role to question whether a false
accusation occurred. The fact is that false reports occur more often than other
forms of false reports.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The claim that false rape accusations occur no more often than other
false reports has long been discredited by a legal scholar Edward Greer in the
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. You can view the scholarship online </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fncfm.org%2Flibraryfiles%2FChildren%2Frape%2Fgreer.pdf&ei=PNduUNqrEYSJrAHM_IE4&usg=AFQjCNE5NP0AuXTlHJlBgcSLvyXYhDOwrA"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Whenever we automatically believe the accuser is a victim, we
automatically presume the person accused is guilty until proven innocent. What
if I walked around saying, “Whenever someone says they are a victim of a false
rape claim, believe them!” Regardless as to whatever percentage of rape claims
are false, is that right? Is that fair to the accuser? No. Neither the accuser
nor the person accused is entitled to be automatically believed. They are
entitled to be automatically considered. It really does all come back to
treating people the way you would want to be treated, which is, by the way,
equality. Do you want people to presume that accusers are guilty? No; so treat
the accused the same way. To borrow their language, while it may be their role
to advocate for victims of rape, it is not their role to suggest that men and
boys should be guilty until proven innocent. And we should all find any
implication that they are entitled to do so sexist and offensive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-10-15/news/0710150124_1_sexual-assault-clothesline-project-alleged-rapists"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: blue;">this next article from the <em>Baltimore Sun</em></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"> concerning the Clothesline Project, we
hear of another problem at </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Rollins College in Florida: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>The politics of the Clothesline Project -
which encourages women to see themselves and other women as victims and to rage
at the patriarchy - can unintentionally encourage young women to make spurious
accusations. For example, during the 2005 campus-wide sexual assault awareness
week at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., then-23-year-old Desiree Nall
told police that she was raped by two men in a college bathroom. Fear and panic
swept the campus as police initiated a manhunt for the rapists. Police noticed
many inconsistencies in Ms. Nall's story, and one female police investigator
stated that there was "no evidence to support the sexual battery complaint
filed by Desiree Nall." </em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>According to press reports, Ms. Nall, then the
president of the Brevard County Chapter of the National Organization for Women,
eventually told police that she was "not a victim of a sexual battery, as
earlier reported in her sworn statements." Feminists' lack of concern over
the harm caused by false rape allegations is evident in the fact that even
today, Ms. Nall remains in the leadership of [the] Brevard County [chapter of
the] NOW.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Something similar occurred at George Washington University. </span><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19901218&id=rX80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=yuQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1190,1780321"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">An op-ed in <em>The Reading Eagle</em></span> says</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Why would anyone fake a rape? A troubled conscience might
have its reasons. That’s what Marian Kashani, 19, a sophomore at George
Washington University in Washington, D.C., did. She not only lied about rape,
she embellished her story with racist details. Kashani, a rape counselor who
works on a crisis hotline, told a reporter for her school newspaper that she
knew a white woman who was raped on campus at knifepoint by two black men “with
particularly bad body odor.” When they were done, she said one of the men told
the woman that she was “pretty good for a white girl.” A fake policeman backed
up her story by phone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">There are goats aplenty in this sordid episode. Kashani is one,
obviously. She insists she only wanted to bring public attention to [in her
words] “the problems of safety for all women.” She got attention all right, but
she’s less likely to contribute to the safety of women than to racial animosity
and renewed skepticism toward women who cry rape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157165,00.html#ixzz285la5bWE"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">An article in TIME magazine called, “When is it Rape?”</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> tells us yet another
story, and the motivations behind it:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">A new twist in
society's perception came in 1975, when Susan Brownmiller published her book
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. In it she attacked the concept that rape
was a sex crime, arguing instead that it was a crime of violence and power over
women. Throughout history, she wrote, rape has played a critical function.
"It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation, by
which <u>all men</u> keep <u>all women</u> in a state of fear."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Out of this
contention was born a set of arguments that have become politically correct
wisdom on campus and in academic circles. This view holds that rape is a symbol
of women's vulnerability to male institutions and attitudes. "It's
sociopolitical," insists Gina Rayfield, a New Jersey psychologist.
"In our culture men hold the power, politically, economically. They're
socialized not to see women as equals."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">This line of
reasoning has led some women, especially radicalized victims, to justify
flinging around the term rape as a political weapon, referring to everything
from violent sexual assaults to inappropriate innuendos. Ginny, a college
senior who was really raped when she was 16, suggests that false accusations of
rape can serve a useful purpose. "Penetration is not the only form of
violation," she explains. In her view, rape is a subjective term, one that
women must use to draw attention to other, nonviolent, even nonsexual forms of
oppression. "If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape, she may have had
reasons to," Ginny says. "Maybe she wasn't raped, but he clearly
violated her in some way."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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Feminists, even when women commit criminal acts, they are never responsible for
their own behavior; it is always a man who is to blame. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It should be
noticeable that there has been a change in the way some Feminists operate. They
have come up with a new idea. Instead of going after people who commit sexual
assault, they have decided to go after everyone who does not, with the
presumption that they would rape, if they don’t get a memo about it. As an
example, <a href="http://tumblinfeminist.tumblr.com/post/5532695085/fool-proof-sexual-assault-prevention-tips">this poster</a> says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Assault Prevention Tips:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span><br />
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Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">5. If
you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON’T ASSAULT THEM!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">6.
Remember, people go to laundry to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest
someone who is alone in a laundry room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">7.
USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting
people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">8.
Always be honest with people! Don’t pretend to be a caring friend in order to
gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan
to assault them. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the other person may
take that as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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Don’t forget: you can’t have sex with someone unless they are awake!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone "on
accident" you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it
if you do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Posters
worded just like this are springing up on university campuses. After they were
posted around Union College, New York, </span><a href="http://www.concordy.com/article/opinions/may-10-2012/helpful-tips-for-men-wont-help-raise-assault-awareness/4721/"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">an article appeared in the Student Newspaper titled</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> “Helpful Tips for Men Won’t Help Raise Sexual Assault
Awareness.” The author, Nick D’Angelo, says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>Appearing
across campus have been signs and posters labeled “Helpful Hints for Men” in
regards to sexual assault and rape. Such useful and effective anecdotes include
“Don’t rape people” or “If you cannot stop yourself from raping people, ask a
friend to stay with you in public.” At a time when the mission of effective
organizations like SAHC [the Sexual Assault Harassment Committee] is to promote
the seriousness of a serious issue, such frivolity is counterproductive and
even irresponsible.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">People
are talking about the signs—but not about the awareness it brings to sexual
assault crimes on campus. Rather, the conversation has been one of harsh
criticism directed at an individual or group that makes a poor attempt at
poking fun at a grave issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>And
why is this directed at all men? Are all men now to be viewed as potential
rapists? According to this effort, the answer is yes. The maneuver is blatantly
and unequivocally sexist.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The response often by Feminists to that their critics of these posters is
that they just don’t get the intended message, which is that for years, the
onus has been placed on women to take measures to reduce their chances of being
raped, which they believe (correctly, in some cases) is stupid and sexist. What
they don’t realize is that their critics do get the message,</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and in
addition, they get an idea that some Feminists have a hard time getting,
namely: that t<span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">urning sexism around 180
degrees is not the same thing as eliminating it.</span> And these non-Feminists
have gotten another message that some Feminists have a hard time getting: the
worst way to advocate that society should not do something is by doing it
yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">And there are </span><a href="http://www.cotwa.info/2012/05/not-helpful-sign.html"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">more signs</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"> posted around higher education with the same
style of message - that all men are potential rapists. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s one at UCLA, posted by the group “Bruin Feminists for Equality:” </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And here’s<a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2009/12/campus-flyer-holds-men-responible-for.html"> another one</a>:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtixWCyteYbrYQD8_KpFxo7mp8y0fX4R5Nmx35jYIvXboL8HygO9Yx7_AvFoNvRZ7dOCcYmp-ajuKWZnowINM7bELYvqOm7SYVFx7RVMfUQNdk9XzrCw5IqXSOdL6AGfqYMP9CZnPV-Gs-/s1600/Men+-+Stop+Raping+Women!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtixWCyteYbrYQD8_KpFxo7mp8y0fX4R5Nmx35jYIvXboL8HygO9Yx7_AvFoNvRZ7dOCcYmp-ajuKWZnowINM7bELYvqOm7SYVFx7RVMfUQNdk9XzrCw5IqXSOdL6AGfqYMP9CZnPV-Gs-/s200/Men+-+Stop+Raping+Women!.jpg" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“There’s nothing that should be offensive to people who
aren’t rapists,” says one Feminist. Very well then. Let’s try a little role reversal and see if
the Feminists come out ahead. What if a student were to walk around campus
saying such things?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Hey blacks: if you see someone on the street, remember not
to mug them? I mean I know it’s hard, you know – I know it’s part of the social
construction of blackness – but hey, just try. Hey Muslims: if you a go into
building, remember not to blow it up. You know, or a crowd of people. Whatever
you are tempted to blow up today. Hey Hispanics, stop stealing. I mean I know,
just as men are socialized to see women as their property, Hispanics are
socialized to see Texas as their property since it declared its independence
from Mexico. Hey women, stop lying about rape;
not some women, just every woman
listening – just stop lying about rape.</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">I mean the
only ones who would get offended would be the blacks who commit gang violence,
Hispanics who steal, women who lie about rape, and Muslims who blow up
buildings, right? Somehow I doubt that. Again, treat other people the way you
would want to be treated. Reverse the sexes, replace the sexes with the races,
and if it does not sound like something you can justify, don’t do it. It really
is that simple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Does anyone
seriously think that those who have the intent to rape will choose to do
otherwise because an unattended piece of paper told them to do so? Even if we
cannot all agree that this is sexist, I hope we can all agree it this is just
not constructive. It doesn’t do anything - realistically - to prevent sexual
assault; it just adds to the bitterness in the world, it alienates potential
supporters, and it wastes an opportunity to make a better statement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The Vagina Monologues is a play which is
performed on Valentine’s Day, which campus Feminists have renamed V-Day, “V”
standing for the words “violence,” “vagina,” and “victory.” There’s a
dissenting Feminist that I greatly respect named Wendy McElroy. She is of the
school called iFeminism, or Individualist Feminism, </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45316,00.html"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">and had this to say about the Vagina Monologues</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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1998, V-Day events have been sponsored on university campuses across America.
The stated purpose is to raise awareness. In reality, V-Day embodies the same
double standard and dishonesty that has characterized most feminist
pronouncements for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Consider
the politically correct centerpiece of the V-Day events: "The Vagina
Monologues," the award-winning play by radical feminist Eve Ensler that
features women who literally represent vaginas that speak out in a series of
monologues. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The
play is meant to decry rape and other violence against women. Yet, the original
performances of the play and the published book eulogize lesbian
"rape" of a 13-year-old girl by a 24-year-old woman who plies her
with alcohol. The pedophile section is entitled "The Little Coochi
Snorcher That Could" — Coochi Snorcher being the nickname of the little
girl's genitalia. Her vagina's tale of seduction begins, "She gently and
slowly lays me out on the bed..." <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">After
becoming more graphic, the little girl gratefully concludes, "I'll never
need to rely on a man." <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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</span></em><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Both
by statute and by feminist definition, the "seduction" scene is rape.
Nevertheless, the Coochi Snorcher declares,"...if it was rape, it was a
good rape." <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Such
idealization of child molestation would have created a firestorm of outrage if
the offending character had been male. But the molester was female, so
"The Vagina Monologues" won an OBIE Award on Broadway and noted
actresses clamored to be included in the cast. When the New York Times
reported the buzz about Ensler, it called her "the Messiah heralding the
second wave of feminism." <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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</span></em><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">However, audiences
probably won't hear the Coochi Snorcher speaking of "good rape" in
the 2002 performances. In past years, some sections of "The Vagina
Monologues" have caused embarrassment to the organizers and university
officials who have backed V-Day performances. The script has been changed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>One
of the alterations: the 13-year-old vagina omits the more inflammatory
passages.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">In 2000,
when Georgetown University's Women's Center sponsored a performance of the
Vagina Monologues, the conservative Robert Swope — a regular contributor to
Georgetown University's student paper, The Hoya — brought the Coochi
Snorcher to national attention. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">In The
Hoya, Swope wrote, "why is rape only wrong when a man commits it, but
when it's by a woman committed against another woman, who just happens to be
13-years-old, it is celebrated and a university club sponsors it?" <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
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</span></em><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>Swope
was abruptly fired from The Hoya. Accounts of his dismissal appeared in
the Wall Street Journal, Salon, National Review, the Washington
Times, and the Weekly Standard, among others. </em></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">So instead of
thinking about love and intimacy on Valentine’s Day, students are now told to
think about partner violence and rape. Doesn’t make for a very romantic day. In
fact, it kind of ruins the idea of having a day set aside for thinking positive
thoughts about relationships. But such is a Feminist holiday. I know that when
it performed at my campus, I really didn’t feel like doing anything with my
partner at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">So the age of
the girl who had sex with a lesbian was changed from 13 to 16, which, by the
way, is still statutory rape in many (if not most) states. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEYDkO2e9PZW34Ta7vuZsqCIDZ7ubcmhyWYmQKzBdo-NJhXMChNtz8ZH8FT4C5NWUOyeaIknKVXgG985zjmIljNYaC741llqxs8a5mns02zdpP0TIoapDtdbdX-e0Wmln2tOqsoofPTH0/s1600/LogoblackbackVDAY.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEYDkO2e9PZW34Ta7vuZsqCIDZ7ubcmhyWYmQKzBdo-NJhXMChNtz8ZH8FT4C5NWUOyeaIknKVXgG985zjmIljNYaC741llqxs8a5mns02zdpP0TIoapDtdbdX-e0Wmln2tOqsoofPTH0/s200/LogoblackbackVDAY.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Now remember
that the intent of this event (supposedly) is to advocate against sexual
assault. After all, that’s why the “V” in “V-Day” stands for violence. And this
play made it to production as a full group effort, and performed all around the
US, for years, before the age of the girl who had sex with a lesbian was
changed from 13 to 16 (which, by the way, is still statutory rape in many - if
not most - states) and before the 13-year-old girl stopped saying “if it was a
rape, it was a good rape.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">And again,
and as always, we have to ask: how does what we are seeing in help victims of
sexual assault? And if it is not about helping victims of sexual assault, what
is it really about?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Feminists certainly don’t mind making a public display of vaginas and
making sure that everyone sees them. But what happens when a few Harvard
students do the same? </span><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/2/24/ruined-snow-penis-stimulates-debate-when/"><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-size: large;">An article in the Harvard Crimson</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> tells us:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">When a few members of the Harvard crew team
decided to build a snowy representation of the male anatomy on Feb. 11, they
never imagined it would be so hard to keep it up. The 9-foot snow phallus,
constructed in Tercentenary Theater, was torn down just hours after its
erection. But its impression still sparked an intense debate, from dining halls
to dorm rooms, over the appropriateness of public displays of genitalia. Even
The Economist magazine weighed in on the discussion, offering the destruction
of the sculpture as evidence of American prudishness on its usually staid
pages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span></em><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">But women’s groups on campus have led
a chorus of complaints against the snow penis, arguing that such a display is
demeaning to women. “It was offensive because it was pornographic,” said Amy E.
Keel ’04, who said she and her roommate “dismantled” the giant snow penis. “As
a feminist, pornography is degrading to women and creates a violent
atmosphere,” she said. Keel said that her personal experience as a rape survivor
makes this statue even more uncomfortable to observe. “Men think they have the
right to force that on you,” she said. “It’s a logical extension.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Women’s
Studies Lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld, who teaches Women, Violence and the Law
this semester, said that the implications of the snow phallus go beyond the
legitimacy of the statue’s presence. “The ice sculpture was erected in a public
space, one that should be free from menacing reminders of women’s sexual
vulnerability,” Rosenfeld wrote in an e-mail yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span><br />
<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">She said the
snow penis follows a long line of public phallic symbols, including the
Washington Monument and missiles. “Women do not need to be reminded of the
power of the symbol of the male genitalia,” Rosenfeld said. “My guess is that
they are constantly reminded of it in daily messages.” A discussion about
feminist perspectives on the statue, sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of
Students, will take place Tuesday night in the Adams House small dining room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">You see folks, sexual imagery is only
pornographic when it is displayed by men. And not only is displaying an
inanimate representation of male genitalia pornographic, it is by extension an
advocacy of rape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Why is it important to spend time talking about misandry by
students? </span><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/10/until-college-men-and-women-of-good.html"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">A </span><span style="color: blue;">post at the Community of the Wrongly Accused</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> gives us a good
answer:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>When colleges go looking for students to serve
on committees to discuss changing sexual assault policies, who
do you think volunteers? Here's a hint: it ain't a starting running back
on the football team. In fact, it's rarely anyone who wears a jockstrap out of
necessity on a regular basis. It's generally a true believer feminist who
thinks that there is an overarching "rape culture" on
campus. She believes that school needs to be made safer for women. And she
sees no need to balance policies designed to nab rapists with policies to
protect innocent men from being punished with the guilty--"rape
culture" already provides too many protections for both the
innocent and the guilty, she believes.<br />
<br />
Harvard is looking to revise its sexual assault policies, and has
appointed student representatives to a special committee charged with reviewing
current policies. Samantha A. Meier ’12, was one of the appointees to the review
committee. Is Samantha Meier representative of the student body?<br />
</em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><em>
Meier believes this is an “opportune time” for Harvard to take a look at
its own sexual assault policies. She hopes to discuss changing
the definition of consent used by the school. "Under most legal
definitions, forced sexual intercourse can be considered rape or sexual assault
only when the victim said 'no' or was incapable of doing so due to the
influence of drugs or alcohol, according to Meier. Meier said that she
and other students on the committee hoped to push the University instead toward
an 'enthusiastic consent' model, in which an incident can be called rape in the
absence of affirmative agreement.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">[By the way, “Enthusiastic consent” means exactly what it sounds
like: that a man who has sex is guilty of rape if his partner was not “enthusiastic”
enough in her participation.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“The only people who lose out in this model are the rapists,”
said another student, who also was selected to serve on the
committee. “We all care a lot about these issues,” Meier said, “and we
want Harvard to care about these issues and take them seriously.”<br />
<br />
Who is Samantha Meier? She's a sociology "concentrator" who has
taken a number of Women, Gender, and Sexuality classes. She's
even organized and moderated a feminist blogger gathering at
Harvard.<br />
<br />
Are Samantha Meier's views typical of Harvard students'? I sincerely doubt
it. "Enthusiastic consent" is unworkable as either a legal standard
or an official university policy. It would punish men with expulsion, in
all likelihood, even if actual consent -- agreement to proceed with a sex
act -- were present so long as such consent wasn't sufficiently
"enthusiastic." Men and women, of course, do not carry
"enthusiasm meters" into the bedroom, and to punish young men
(and, yes, young men are the prime target) for not conforming to
an artificial and politicized construct that would be fairly impossible to
gauge borders on the barbaric.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
</span></em><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Until men -- and women -- of good will realize that they have a
right, indeed a duty, to participate in the public discourse on these
issues even though their views don't fit the preferred narrative, every
sexual assault initiative will be steered by persons who want to re-engineer
male conduct to fit a feminist ideal. They will be steered by persons
more concerned with engorging the definition of sexual assault by constricting
the definition of "consent" than insuring that sexual assault policies
don't punish the innocent with the guilty. It is time for men and women of good
will to inject themselves into the public discourse, and push the extremists
and ideologues to the side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">And also, at
some point, we have to go beyond addressing these things individually and as
they appear – at which point it is already too late - and start naming,
exposing, and confronting the attitudes and culture in academia that creates
and reinforces it. These students are not just randomly waking up one day and
deciding to do these things. Where are they getting this attitude of indifference
and hostility to men and boys? We will discuss that question in our next video/blog post,
when we talk about misandry in the form of rape hysteria by faculty and
administrators.</span></span>TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-70992797619390719852012-10-03T05:37:00.000-07:002012-12-02T07:45:30.693-08:00The Wrongly Accused in our Educational Institutions<div style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In gathering data for a future video and blog entry for <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">The War on Male Students</a>, I
have gone through the entirety of the largest site giving a voice to victims of
wrongful accusations, <a href="http://www.cotwa.info/">The Community of the Wrongly Accused</a>, as well as its parent
blog, <a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/">The False Rape Society</a>. Given that my focus is gender equity in education,
I have compiled a list of wrongful claims of sexual misconduct by or against students,
faculty, or administrators that have been covered by these sites. This list exclusively focuses on posts that include reports on specific incidences of wrongful accusations</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and for the sake of space strives to avoid listing multiple posts that address the same incident. While
arranged in no particular order, this list is intended as a condensed resource for those
interested in researching and addressing the problem of wrongful accusations in
education (myself included). I will periodically update this list, and likely add stories from
other sites as well. I’d also like to thank the authors at COTWA for providing
such an incredible public service, and recommend the site to anyone interested
in justice for men and boys. I also highly recommend professor KC Johnson's blog <a href="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/">Durham-in-Wonderland</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">, where he extensively covers the infamous 2006 Duke lacrosse false rape case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This list was last updated on October 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2012,
and does not include any entries at COTWA after that date. Let me know if I missed one! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/04/schoolgirl-escapes-prosecution-after.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/04/schoolgirl-escapes-prosecution-after.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/woman-pleads-guilty-to-false-rape.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/woman-pleads-guilty-to-false-rape.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/report-of-assault-was-fabrication.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/report-of-assault-was-fabrication.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/woman-recants-sex-assault-report.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/03/woman-recants-sex-assault-report.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/02/false-police-report-worries-sexual.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/02/false-police-report-worries-sexual.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/02/girl-charged-with-false-rape-claim.html">http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2008/02/girl-charged-with-false-rape-claim.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Professor KC Johnson's blog:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/">http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/innocent-schoolboy-was-shot-dead-after-girl-15-made-a-false-rape-claim-1630442.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/innocent-schoolboy-was-shot-dead-after-girl-15-made-a-false-rape-claim-1630442.html</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2012/11/29/cornell-police-report-attempted-rape-campus-was-false"><span style="font-size: large;">http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2012/11/29/cornell-police-report-attempted-rape-campus-was-false</span></a></div>
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-77821167355627697802012-09-29T09:32:00.000-07:002012-11-08T11:34:55.624-08:00Rape Hysteria by Students, Part 1 / Misandry in Education<center>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It’s
going to take a while to come close to describing the extent of the rape
hysteria in education, and how it often translates into a form of misandry –
sexism against men and boys – and often leads to a presumption of guilt against
men and boys who are wrongly accused of rape. Since this is a very
controversial issue and we’ll be dealing with a lot of information, I’d like to
list some core values upfront that I hope we can all agree on:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">1.
There exists in the world both victims of rape and victims of wrongful
accusations of rape, and both deserve our compassion and support. To that end,
there is a balance to be maintained between the rights and dignity of accusers
and the rights and dignity of the accused. The presumption that accusers by
default are liars, or that the accused by default are guilty, is a form of
prejudice (prejudice meaning <i>pre-judging</i>)
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Men and women have the right to advocate for victims of rape and victims of wrongful
rape accusations. It is not sexist to say that some women lie about rape any
more than it is sexist to say that some men rape. What is sexist is the idea
that we should exclude and silence an entire class of victims from the
discourse on gender equity. </span></span></div>
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Most men do not rape. Most women do not lie about rape. What this means is that
generalizing about rape as part of “male culture” or “normative masculinity,”
or about rape lies as a part of “female culture” or “normative femininity,” or
any other phrase used to tar either sex with a broad brush, is not only not constructive,
but also veers very closely to hate speech. That does not mean that both rape
and false accusations of rape are not problems; they are problems. What it
means is that such behavior is not the norm for either sex, and we need to work
toward respecting each other by remembering that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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think this is a fairly reasonable and balanced set of values. And starting from
those values and discovering and owning up to where we stray from them will be
the litmus test in addressing the phenomenon of misandry against men and boys
in education. In every case of misandry, simply reverse the sexes and ask
yourself if it would be acceptable. And if we cannot say that such a role
reversal is morally justified, then something in academia needs to change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">It
is my belief that the indifference and hostility in education toward men and
boys wrongly accused of sexual misconduct started out as a genuine concern for
victims of sexual assault. But somewhere along the way that compassion and
advocacy for women transformed into a zero-sum game that divided men and women
into separate and antagonistic sides, where those who came to dominate the
discourse insisted that one “side” alone should prevail, and where advocacy for
victims of rape too often came to include silencing an entire class of victims:
those who are wrongly accused. Critics of those who advocate equality for men
and boys often falsely characterize them as wanting to turn back the clock. On
the contrary; we do not need to do away entirely with advocacy for women. What
we need to do is keep a lot of what we have while progressing beyond some of
the unhelpful and quite frankly sexist ways we go about it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Given the stigma and
ostracism that often afflicts those wrongly accused, and the persistence with
which it will follow them (especially in the internet age), false and mistaken
accusations of sexual assault have the power to destroy their means of
educating themselves, making a living, creating loving and committed
relationships, and becoming successful and productive members of society. Men
and boys who are wrongly accused of sexual assault are spit upon, they are
harassed and intimidated with threats of violence or death; some are chased,
some are killed, and others kill themselves. In short, wrongful accusations
have the power to ruin not only individual lives, but fracture communities.
Therefore, it is something we need to take seriously. If you wish to learn more about victims of wrongful accusations of sexual
misconduct, please visit the Community of the Wrongly Accused, the world’s
largest blog giving a voice to victims of wrongful accusations.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The
real problem with rape hysteria is not the hyper-awareness of the incidence of
rape; it is the presumption of guilt against the person accused and the
destruction of their due process rights that often come with it. For this video
on rape hysteria by students, we’ll be focusing on what I believe to be, by
comparison, more moderate forms of misandry, and while I believe that some of what
we will discuss here, depending on your perspective, just slightly crosses the
border into misandry, I believe it’s important to discuss it, because when we
start talking more about faculty and administrators, we will see where the
students are getting some of their ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-12-19/news/1990353005_1_university-explicit-gutmann%E2%80%94"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Anarticle in the Baltimore Sun</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> tells us, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">YOU ARE ACCUSED of a shameful crime. Your accuser is unnamed. The
time, place and circumstances of your crime are unspecified. No evidence is
presented. You are condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This isn't Kafka. At
Brown University, a very liberal liberal-arts school in Rhode Island, a ''rape
list'' scrawled on the wall of a library women's room names ''men who have
sexually assaulted me or a woman I know.'' <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="lingoregion">The
</span>list,
started in October, names 30 men. As soon as janitors scrub the wall clean,
someone writes the ''rape list'' on it again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Lisa Billowitz of Brown
Against Sexual Assault and Harassment calls the list ''an act of desperation in
an attempt to get Brown to act responsibly and provide us with a system where
we can air these grievances publicly as opposed to bathroom walls.''</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Well
if that is true, then she got the first half of it right. The second half was
to condemn the idea of publicly branding 30 male students as rapists without
anyone knowing whether they were innocent or guilty. But that’s not something
she does. If anything, she makes rationalizations for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-05-08/news/1993128032_1_potential-rapists-campus-feminist-art"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Anotherarticle in the Baltimore Sun</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> asks, </span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Are
nearly all male students at the University of Maryland "potential
rapists"? Women in a feminist art class
here apparently believe so. About 10 of them plastered the campus with fliers
last week listing the names of virtually every male student under the heading,
"NOTICE: THESE MEN ARE POTENTIAL RAPISTS." Their decision to walk
the murky line between libel and free speech sent the campus into an uproar.
Yesterday, reporters, photographers and TV crews flocked to the sprawling
campus in search of outraged students on both sides of the issue. University officials are
trying to determine whether some members of the "Current Issues in
Feminist Art" class or their teacher violated their codes of conduct, said
Roland H. King, the university's spokesman.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The project began as a
response to several sexual assaults on campus in the past year. To alert women
to the pervasiveness of rape, the art students prepared fliers with names
culled from the campus directory. Everyone with an
identifiably male name, such as Tom or Mohammed or John, ended up on an
alphabetized list. The women also set up large posters containing all of the
names on the grassy mall at the center of the campus, where masked women put on
an anti-rape play. They call themselves the Women's Coalition for Change but
have not revealed their names.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Mr. King said it is
unclear whether teacher Josephine Withers was involved in the project, which
was not listed on her outline for the course. She did not return phone calls
yesterday. The school administration
considers the display "inappropriate" and an error in judgment, Mr.
King said, but the case also raises thorny issues about free speech. "It certainly
touches on key First Amendment issues that colleges face all the time, which is
the balancing of individual rights with the right of free speech," he
said. "One of the things
that defines a college or university is that it's a forum where, more than in
society at large, you can debate ideas. To do that, you have to include the
people at the fringes as well as people at the center." When the students
attached names to their display, he said, they moved into a "very gray
area."</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sophomore Matthew Nowlin,
20, an aerospace engineering student, briefly considered suing when he found
his name on the "potential rapists" list, fearing that his character
had been impugned. It didn't take long for
him to feel the ramifications of being included on the list. A woman who walked
past him later that day looked at him with "fear in her eyes," he
said. Now, he just wants an
apology from the lists' authors. Yesterday, Mr. Nowlin helped organize a small
rally on campus to talk about sexual assault. "I want to turn away from
the anger this has caused and turn us back to the issue of violence on
campus," he said. The anger, however, is the point, said several women who
strongly supported the display but said they were not involved in it.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Erin Lane, 22, a senior
economics major, and several of her friends discussed the project outside the
Food Co-op in the student center. "A lot of people are very upset by it,
but I think if a man was secure he wasn't a rapist, he wouldn't be threatened
by this list," Ms. Lane said. "I think it's admirable that men in
this school have been saying the word 'rape' and are being angry at the same
time," said Jessica True, 23, a freshman from Takoma Park. "We're
forced to accept the fact we're potential rape victims everyday," said
Kelly Maron, 20, a sophomore from La Plata studying art and women's studies.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Question:
what if a bunch of guys got together on campus and posted fliers around the
university saying, “NOTICE: These women are potential rape liars,” and listed
the names of many female students on campus they never met and knew nothing
about. What if a female student who saw her name publicly put on such a list
actually was a victim of rape? How would she feel? I would imagine that she
would probably feel devastated at the lack of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And
also, what do they mean by “potential”? I have seen these actions defended by
those say that such statements are justified because, theoretically, everyone
can perform the motor functions of the act of rape. Well, first of all, that’s
factually incorrect, because it’s including the disabled and the handicapped
among them. But beyond that, the word “potential” has different meanings. There
is the potential of one’s body, but there is also the potential of one’s
character; their strength of will and conscience. And call me crazy, but when
it comes to rape, I don’t think everyone has it in them. And I think it’s
bordering on sexism, if not the essence of sexism, to say that everyone does,
so long as that “everyone” is all men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><o:p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">But
beyond that, it bears mention that the word potential doesn’t just mean
“possible.” </span><a href="http://thesaurus.com/browse/Potential"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Let’s go to Thesaurus.com and search for synonyms</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">. And guys, as I’m
going through each of these, imagine that each synonym is immediately followed
by “rapist” immediately followed by your name. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="lingoregion"><i>Words
that mean the same as potential: </i></span><i>abeyant, budding, conceivable, <span style="text-decoration: none;">dormant</span>,
embryonic, <b><span style="text-decoration: none;">future</span></b>,
<b><span style="text-decoration: none;">hidden</span></b>,
imaginable, <b><span style="text-decoration: none;">implied</span>,
<span style="text-decoration: none;">inherent</span>,
<span style="text-decoration: none;">latent</span>,
<span style="text-decoration: none;">likely</span>,
lurking, <span style="text-decoration: none;">plausible</span>, </b><span style="text-decoration: none;">possible</span>,
prepatent, <b><span style="text-decoration: none;">probable</span></b>,
<span style="text-decoration: none;">quiescent</span>,
thinkable, undeveloped, unrealized, within realm of possibility.</i> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Language, as
we all know, is not finite or fixed; it is, as they say, <i>socially constructed</i>. <span class="lingoregion">It can be read many
different ways, <i>and they know this</i>.</span> Indeed, since many of these Feminists likely study the postmodernist
philosophies of deconstruction in the humanities (and in Women’s Studies in
particular), they should know this better than anyone. When <span class="lingoregion">Feminists seek to raise our consciousness on the nature of sexual
harassment and hostile environments, they often tell us that it does not matter
how the message is intended; it only matters how it is received. And since they
know that many will perceive the word “potential” not just to mean that it is
possible for those they name to rape, but that it is <i>likely</i> for them to do so (a message which is reinforced by the big
word “NOTICE” right in front of their name), they should certainly know better.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">And
we have to ask: how does this really help victims of sexual assault? It
doesn’t. It doesn’t help anyone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19931010&id=w2NPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3761,2515343"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">A similar event occurred at Oberlin college.</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> The <i>Toledo Blade</i>, an Ohio publication, tells
the story: </span></span></div>
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<i>Earlier this year at
Oberlin College, a group calling itself “Take Back the Night” posted signs
across campus identifying a freshman as “Rapist of the Month.” The freshman, an
18-year-old studying philosophy, recalls the day the signs went up. He was getting his mail
when he noticed students crowded in front of a bulletin board. They were
reading a sign – a sign calling him a rapist. “My initial reaction was complete
shock, complete disbelief,” says the freshman, who requested his name not be
published. “My friends gathered around and said, ‘Hey, what’s this all about?’”
He tore the sign down, along with several others on campus. The next few days were
spent denying the accusation – to fiends, acquaintances, and the media. “I
haven’t even dated at Oberlin,” he says. ‘I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. I
couldn’t have gotten myself in that kind of situation.’ Adds friend Stacy
Tolchin: ‘"He’s probably almost boring."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Campus officials
investigated but failed to find who posted the signs. The rumor is that it was
a case of mistaken identity: the signs had the right first name but not the
last. Many students at the small liberal arts school south of Cleveland say the
signs went too far. ‘They tried and convicted him right there,’ freshman Ryan
Maltese says. ‘For the rest of his time here, whenever he approaches a woman in
any kind of romantic atmosphere, it’s going to be in her mind: ‘Did this guy
rape someone?’’</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Such tactics are not
surprising, says junior Ted Chapman, sitting in the courtyard outside the
Student Union. He says tensions have been so high the last couple of years that
he has virtually quit dating. Friend Dave Roscky nods in agreement. Nearby, sophomore
Emily Lloyd says men are missing the point. “So many women get their lives
totally ruined by being assaulted and not saying anything. So if one guy gets
his life ruined, maybe it balances out.” The man next to her, a long-haired
freshman in glasses, disagrees. ‘All I can think is what would I do if my name
was up there on that sign?’ he says. ‘What would I do?’ Ms. Lloyd shoots back:
‘Do you know what you’d do if you were raped?’ There is a tense silence as the
freshman studies the grass in front of him. Finally, he looks up. "Well, I know
one thing," he says, "I wouldn’t put up a sign."</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">“It
balances out?” Here we have another woman who, just like Assistant Dean of
Students Catherine Comins, believes that it does not matter if men have their
lives ruined by false accusations of rape. It’s all justified – and why?
Because some women are victims of rape. It should go without saying that both
victims of rape and victims of false accusations of rape deserve our compassion
and support. But this is not what this woman, nor what this particular group
calling itself “Take Back the Night” believes.</span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">At
the University of Ottawa in Canada, </span><a href="http://antimisandry.com/general-news/university-ottawa-womens-resource-centre-hate-speech-27921.html"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">a poster on the Women’s Resource Center</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> welcomes
male students to the campus by saying this: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">“Steps
to Preventing Rape. #1: Men should keep to well-lit areas. #2: Men should wear
bells around their necks at all times. #3: Men should be accompanied by
protection officers. #4: Men should refrain from putting drugs in women’s
drinks. #5: Men should avoid attacking women.” And lastly, in all caps: “REAL
MEN DON’T RAPE.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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how long has this poster been up? </span><a href="http://thefulcrum.ca/2012/04/feminism-and-equality/#.UEH7n_nsYTc"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">A student newspaper at the University ofOttawa called The Fulcrum tells us inthe opening line</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">: “</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">FOR YEARS, A large poster hung in the window of the Student Federation
of the University of Ottawa’s Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) that made the
following (among others) misandric statements on ‘steps to preventing rape.’”
It then gives us a link to the photo of the posters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Why do people do bad
things? Usually, because they can. Those who posted this thought that the
academic environment was such that messages of denigrating men would be
tolerated. And they were right. For how many years exactly was this poster up?
We don’t know. But too many. And let’s stop and think for second: i<span class="lingoregion">f we were to live in a world where people who believe, say
and do things like these were completely unopposed, what kind of world would
that be? Is that a world we would want to live in? I hope we all see what is
going on here: male students are being publicly insulted, humiliated, and
ostracized, and they are told that they deserve it based upon their genetic
code. And again, we have to ask: how does this message help victims of sexual
assault? How does this help anyone? And if it’s not about helping victims of
sexual assault, we are well within our rights to ask: what is it about? </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="lingoregion">On
the other side of Canada, at Simon Frasier University, the Women’s Center hosts
what they call the Male Allies project. </span><span class="lingoregion">On
their website it says, “Though still in its conceptual form, the male allies
project is the brainchild of the women’s centre designed to bring
self-identified men together to talk about masculinity and its harmful effects
on both men and women. We know that many men are concerned with the way
masculinity denigrates women by making them into sexual objects, is homophobic,
encourages violence, and discourages emotional expression. It is the hope of
the women’s centre that the male allies project will help men address these
concerns in conjunction with other men and allow them an opportunity to
reimagine what masculinity could be.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">I
wonder, what would it be like if we were to replace the “male and female” with “white
and black”? What would that sound like? “The black allies project is the
brainchild of the White People’s Centre designed to bring self-identified
blacks together to talk about the social construct of blackness and its harmful
effects on both whites and blacks. We know that many blacks are concerned with
the way blackness encourages gang violence, the rape of white women, promotes
drug use, theft, and general thuggery. It is the hope of the White People’s
Center that the Black Allies project will help blacks address these concerns in
conjunction with other blacks and allow them to reimagine what blackness could
be.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Where
and when would you imagine a promotion of such a perspective taking place? Maybe
in the South during the era of Jim Crow? Moving on. </span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">At
Princeton university, a female student who was an alleged victim of an earlier rape
and a sex-assault victim advocate falsely accused a man of rape at a Take Back
the Night rally, and her friends started a gossip campaign against the man she
accused. But after he accusation became public and a formal investigation of
her complaint turned up nothing, </span><a href="http://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/cgi-bin/princetonperiodicals?a=d&d=Princetonian19910522-01.2.17&e=------199-en-20--1--txt-IN-Bascom----"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">she printed a retraction in the campusnewspaper The Daily Princetonian,which is available online</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">. I think it deserves to be quoted at length: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">I wish to make the community aware that some of the statements I have
made recently on the editorial page of The Daily Princetonian and at the Take
Back the Night march have been incorrect. I believe it is absolutely essential
that I clarify my story so that no unfair accusations continue to be made by
myself or others against any of my fellow classmates or other members of the
university community. Despite my comments to the contrary, I never brought any
official charges of sexual harassment or assault against any Princeton student.
Consequently, no student has ever been dismissed or suspended from Princeton
University as a result of a sexual harassment or assault offense committed
against me. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white;">I never intended for anyone to be hurt by my statements and I
wholeheartedly apologize to anyone who either took offense or felt as if they
were personally injured by my letter and speech. Rather than attempting to
achieve any type of revenge toward my alleged assailant, I made my statements
in The Daily Princetonian and at the Take Back the Night march in order to
raise awareness for the plight of the campus rape victims. Although I want
sympathy and support for my fellow victims, I do not want to create an
uncomfortable academic or social environment for any other Princeton University
student. Because of these comments, a certain individual has been wrongly
accused and is being pursued for a crime he did not commit. Although I have
never met this individual or spoken to him, I would like to utilize this public
forum to specifically apologize to him. In fact, the student I identified as my
assailant in conversation with many members of this community was not the
person who raped me. He coincidentally left Princeton on his own accord around
the time I was raped but his leaving the university for personal reasons and my
rape are completely unrelated. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white;">I urge students who are knowledgeable of this
situation to cease blaming this person for my attack. In several personal
conversations and especially at the Take Back The Night march, I have been
overcome with emotion. As a result, I was not as coherent or accurate in my
recounting of events as a situation as delicate as this demands. I hope this
letter definitively clarifies all questionable aspects of my story. Two years
ago I made the decision not to prosecute the true assailant. Now I do not have
the right to make unfounded statements about others. Therefore, I once again
apologize to any individuals who have been personally injured or verbally
attacked as a result of my statements. This statement is one I have chosen to
make voluntarily. Thank you for listening.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well,
we do have to give her some credit for coming clean. At the same time, not only
has she done incredible harm to an innocent male student by making a false
accusation, she has done harm to victims of sexual assault. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="lingoregion">There
is something that needs to be said about gatherings and demonstrations by
activist groups in general that applies in these cases. And that is whenever
you immerse yourself within a peer group many of whom dogmatically believe every
claim of victimization by a member of that group, and who you know will accept
unquestioningly anything you say, so long as you claim to be a victim, there is
a temptation among the less stable to get swept in the moment and just start
saying anything that comes to mind. But you have to make sure that if you point
the finger at someone in the middle of a frenzied mob of people, and accuse
them of a crime (especially a crime of violence), once you point the finger at
someone, there’s no going back from that point. She herself says that she got
swept up in it, saying, that she was “overcome with emotion” in “</span>several personal
conversations and especially at the Take Back The Night march,” which
interfered with her ability to make sound judgments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="lingoregion" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Which
leads us to a problematic mentality that is an undercurrent among some of these
advocates, and the Boston rape crisis center (which supports the Clothesline
Project, another anti-rape demonstration) </span><a href="http://barcc.org/blog/details/the-clothesline-project"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">just c</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://barcc.org/blog/details/the-clothesline-project"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">omes right out and saysit better than I ever could</span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">, saying “The Clothesline Project is there to
provoke a reaction - but the thing about emotional reactions to traumatic
events is that there’s no wrong reaction.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Assuming that this center
is speaking literally – and there’s no reason to assume otherwise - i<span class="lingoregion">f someone is falsely accused of rape and they lose their
jobs, their friends, or their marriages, would this rape crisis center support
the idea that it gives them the right harass and intimidate every woman that
claims to be a rape victim? </span>No wrong reaction whatsoever? <span class="lingoregion">Tell that to the young man at Princeton who was pursued,
ostracized, and persecuted because he was falsely accused of rape by someone
who was “overcome with emotion” at Take Back the Night rallies that there is no
wrong reaction. Tell that to the rape victims at that university who will now have
a harder time being believed because of it.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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is an attitude among some that so long as they are victims of a traumatic
event, or not even that – so long as they adopt the label of victim (no proof
required) - they immediately shed all of their adult responsibilities, and no
matter how much harm they cause to innocent people – whether men or women – they
think it’s all ok. But it’s not ok. And with that being said, let’s talk about
the Clothesline Project in our next video, where we’ll discuss more rape
hysteria by students, before moving on to faculty and administrators.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span>TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-19575969045932525452012-09-25T17:46:00.001-07:002012-11-08T11:35:17.054-08:00The Duke Lacrosse False Rape Case / Misandry in Education<center>
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our first video/blog post on misandry as it occurs in the spoken and written word in
education, we’ll focus on one of the most anti-male universities on the face of
the West: Duke University. In the hopes of starting this series on common
ground, we’ll talk about Duke’s 2006 false rape case, a story which many people
know a little about, a few know a lot about, and none know as much as Brooklyn
University professor K.C. Johnson, who co-authored the book <i>Until Proven
Innocent</i>, a highly-recommended chronicle on the infamous false rape case, and blogs at <a href="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/">Durham-In-Wonderland</a>.
Although racism against the falsely accused students is also a critical element
of the story, I’m going to focus on the prejudice and the presumption of guilt on
the basis of gender which, as we have seen and will continue to see, affects
all men and all boys in education, regardless of color.</span></div>
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2006 at Duke university, three male students who were members of the university
lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a stripper at a party. At the
outset, the accused denied the charges. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gh8oGF4iXQ&list=UU8c1IudtS9VO9NYr1Xd8_0Q&index=13&feature=plcp">There were multiple problems with the accusation.</a> The accuser changed her story and the names of the men she
accused many times. The DNA found on Crystal Mangum, the accuser, did not match the men she accused. The stripper who came to the lacrosse house on the night of the party declared to reports that she never saw a rape occur, and that Mangum had told her to put marks on her to make it appear she had been assaulted. By the time the
case was over, there were so many problems with the accuser’s story, and so
much evidence in contradiction to it, that instead of acquitting the three
young men, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7E8QRCNWg">the district attorney, in an extremely rare move by our justice system, declared them innocent</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But
before they were officially declared innocent, and even while much of the
evidence pointed to their innocence, these three students were subjected to a brutal
hostility that had come to characterize far too much of academic culture. Some
students paraded a banner reading “castrate,” others distributed what amounted
to wanted posters throughout the campus with pictures of the lacrosse team. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6nUOuD5nTc&list=UU8c1IudtS9VO9NYr1Xd8_0Q&index=1&feature=plcp">Protestors showed up outside the lacrosse house banging pots and pans, and elsewhere walked around carrying signs saying "don't be a fan of rapists."</a> At one point, a lacrosse player was surrounded by protestors and ordered to confess. Instead of protecting the students’ due process rights, the Duke
president Richard Brodhead pandered to every political interest, looked the
other way in the face of a bloodthirsty crowd that presumed their guilt, suspended
the team and fired the coach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many
faculty and administrators in education in general go out of their way to appear
gender-sensitive, and to speak out against prejudice. But in this case, and in
many others as we will see, when that hatred is directed at men and boys, no
one employed at the university seems to notice, much less care. On the
contrary, as Duke protestors were shouting “confess” “confess,” banging pots
and pans and carrying banners reading “castrate,” 88 Duke published in the campus
newspaper that came to be known as the “Listening Statement” laced with a
presumption of guilt against the three accused, and turning a blind eye to the
presumption of guilt espoused by many of the protestors. An
excerpt from the statement reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Regardless
of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is
the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of racism
and sexism; who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what
they live with everyday. The students know that the disaster didn’t begin on
March 13 and won’t end with what the police say or the court decides. Like all
disasters, this one has a history…to the students speaking individually and to
the protestors making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for
making yourselves heard.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed,
this is a story of prejudice and hatred based upon one’s possession of a particular
genetic code. And it does have a history, but not the one Duke professors are
referring to. Our society has a dark history of overreacting to accusations of
rape, too often to the point of assaulting men and boys who are wrongly
accused. From the hanging trees of the south during the days of racial
repression, to <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/01/dating-overprotective-fathers.html">the overprotectiveness of fathers that sometimes results in the assault and murder of their daughters' boyfriends</a>. Contrary to the lies
of certain gender ideologues, we have always lived in a culture that is
hypersensitive toward certain forms of male sexual impropriety, even to the
point of reacting with gender-based violence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Protecting
female students from retaliation when they make allegations of sexual assault
is a key concern of education administrators, and is reinforced by <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/april-4th-directive-part-i.html">a directive by the Department of Education</a>. But no such concern is voiced in education for
men and boys who are wrongly accused, to the point that students can openly
advocate gender-based violence and male students in not an individual, but a
community effort. The very act of castration is a form of violence directed
against males. What these students are essentially doing is using hate speech
to advocating a hate crime, and they are doing so out of the presumption that those
accused are guilty because they are male. Although academia has an evolved
understanding about recognizing and preventing retaliation against female
students, the Duke case demonstrates that it is it is still in the Stone Age in
doing the same for men and boys who are falsely accused of rape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Until
Proven Innocent, Professor K.C. Johnson recounts the words of coach Mike
Pressler: “the faculty was a hell of a lot worse than the students. It was
appalling. These are our educators” (104). Dr. Johnson documents cases in the
chapter “Academic McCarthyism” where faculty used their bully pulpits to sway
their classrooms against the three accused students. Here’s a few passages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In
late March, [professor] Reeve Huston opened a class by saying that he needed to
break his silence on the lacrosse episode and talk about what he had concluded
from his research on the topic: there was a long-prevalent problem of alpha
males assaulting black females in America and there had been a sexual assault
at 610 North Buchanan.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>As
the professor spoke, Ryan McFayden text-messaged Rob Schroeder, asking if they
should walk out. Huston plowed ahead, declaring it obvious that ‘an ejaculation
had occurred.’ Senior Casey Carroll had
had enough. He got up and left the room. McFayden, Schroeder, Jennison, and
Breck Archer followed their teammate. As they left, Huston said, ‘Don’t worry,
this won’t affect your grade.’ The female lacrosse player remained. She later
reported that Huston had devoted the entire session to his ‘analysis’ of the
case.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Down
the hall from Huston’s class, several other players were taking professor Sally
Deutsch’s course in U.S. history…Deutsch departed from the syllabus and
announced that she would discuss how white men, especially in the South, have
disrespected and sexually assaulted black females. ‘We all knew what she was
doing,’ lacrosse player Tony McDevitt later recalled. ‘A couple people asked
questions to try to get her off track, but she persisted. It lasted half an
hour.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even
after it became clear that the three young men were likely wrongly accused, some
faculty just wouldn’t let it go. After Duke president </span><span style="font-size: large;">lifted the suspensions of
falsely accused students Reade Seligman and Collin Finnerty, <a href="http://www.acri.org/blog/2009/02/10/bye-bye-black-student-invitational-weekends/">professor Karla Holloway resigned her position on the Campus Cultures Initiative in protest.</a> Throughout
the spectacle, in order to appease various political interests, the Duke administration made public statements that leaned toward a
presumption of guilt against the three young men accused. As an example, Joe Alleva, Duke's athletic director, said, "Unfortunately, they're young men, and sometimes young men make bad decisions, make some bad judgments. And that's what this whole thing incident is about." While
many of them stated that they will not stand for sexual assault, not a single
one of them publicly stated they would not stand for false accusations of rape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">The
behavior of the faculty and administration led Reade Seligmann, one of the
falsely accused who was filmed on a security camera at an ATM at the time of
the alleged incident, to say on CBS, “I chose Duke to be my home for four years.
And to see your professors go out and slander you and say these horrible,
untrue things about you, and to have your administration just cut us lose for,
for, based on nothing. Duke took that stance that ‘we wouldn’t stand for this
behavior [i.e. sexual misconduct].’ They didn’t want to take a chance on
standing up for the truth. I can’t imagine representing a school that didn’t
want to represent me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years
after the event, not a single professor has apologized, and some of the have
moved on to administrative positions. On January 17, 2007, 87 Duke faculty
signed what came to be called <a href="http://concerneddukefaculty.org/">the Clarifying Letter</a> in which they claimed that
they really didn’t mean to prejudge the three accused, that they had been
misinterpreted, and that they really weren’t specifically referring the case at
all. If that is true, one must wonder what exactly they were referring to in
the Listening Statement when they said, “this disaster?” In the Clarifying
Letter, they assert that the “disaster” is “</span><span style="font-size: large;">the atmosphere that allows sexism, racism, and
sexual violence to be so prevalent on campus.”
But if they were commenting on that supposed atmosphere and not the case
itself, <a href="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/09/lubianos-cover-e-mail.html">why did the author of the Listening Statement, Wahneema Lubiano, in her
original email to faculty inviting them to sign the ad, say, “</a><a href="http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/09/lubianos-cover-e-mail.html">African &African-American Studies is placing an ad in The Chronicle about the lacrosse team incident”?</a> Why
were the students whose quotations they claimed to listen to referring to the
case specifically, and implying the guilt of the three accused</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If
the faculty were truly concerned with not pre-judging the students accused and
adding to the hysteria and public hatred directed against them on the basis of
their birth group, why did they wait until 8 months after the fact, at which
point the case was 2/3 of the way over, when most of the evidence that had come
out strongly in in favor of the defendants? Why didn’t they clarify their
statement when people were still banging pots and pans, carrying castrate
banners and distributing wanted posters, when such a clarification would have
done the most good? And if they truly stand against prejudice on the basis of
race, sex, or class, why don’t they care about the fact that the greatest amount
of prejudice was directed against the three young men? If the faculty care so
much about listening to their students, why aren’t they listening to all of
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
answer, of course, is that the Clarifying Letter is not about a re-affirmation
of the values of equality and diversity that, like many such faculty, the
faculty at Duke claim to possess but don’t; it’s about covering their behinds,
because as of January 2007, now that the evidence is strongly suggesting the
three young men were falsely accused, and that people speaking for 5 academic
departments and 10 academic programs had publicly had earlier urged the
community to presume their guilt, the university could be in serious legal
trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
his book Tenured Radicals – How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education,
Roger Kimball describes the culture at Duke University, “For months nearly the
entire faculty fell into one of two camps: those who demanded the verdict first
and the trial later, and those whose silence enabled their vigilante colleagues
to set the tone” (xxxi). Which
of the two groups is innocent? When it comes to political disagreements, many
faculty espouse the advice Polonius gave to his son Laertes in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet, who says “give every man thy ear but few thy voice.” Which is generally
a good professional policy, when disagreements are small. </span><span style="font-size: large;">But when
prejudice develops from an attitude among a scattered few to a connected
subculture, when that subculture becomes entrenched, and when it metastasizes
to the point that it manifests itself in institutionalized hatred and bigotry, </span><span style="font-size: large;">there
comes a point when remaining silent is no longer a virtue, or as a great man
said, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” The truth is that every member
of the faculty and administration is a moral stakeholder in their respective
universities. When it comes to institutionalized prejudice, and when it comes
to civil rights, among those who have a stake in such a structure, there is no
such thing as an uninvolved bystander.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
events drew responses from academia outside Duke as well. As Roger Kimball
reports in Tenured Radicals, “Syracuse University…decided not to accept as
transfers any students from the Duke lacrosse team – not just the three accused
chaps, mind you, but <i>anyone</i>
contaminated by having played lacrosse for Duke” (xxvii). L</span><span style="font-size: large;">aw professor Wendy
Murphy, an attorney and sex-assault victim advocate, was a frequent media spokesperson
on the Duke case. At one point commented, “I’m really tired of people
suggesting that you’re somehow un-American if you don’t respect the presumption
of innocence, because you know what that sounds like to a victim? Presumption
you’re a liar.” And in case anyone missed it, this is a person who teaches law,
prosecutes people for sex crimes, and is regarded as an authority in the sex-assault
victim advocacy community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wendy
Murphy reveals a problem among many Feminists and sex-assault victim advocates:
the pervasive belief that women who claim to be raped are always telling the
truth. When the false accuser Crystal Gail Mangum was examined, “the doctors
and nurses were unanimous in finding no physical evidence of the attack
described by Crystal – that is, a brutal assault by three, five, or twenty
varsity athletes, lasting half an hour. No bruises. No bleeding. No vaginal or
anal tearing. No grimacing, sweating, changes in vital signs, or other symptoms
ordinarily associated with the serious pain of which she complained” (Johnson 32).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But
none of that mattered to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, or SANE nurse, the
last one to see Crystal. “Tara Levicy, the ‘SANE nurse,’ was to play a
little-known but critical role in bringing about the prosecution of the
lacrosse players. A strong feminist who had played a part in a <i>Vagina Monologues</i> production [which is a
play hosted on many college campuses, which we’ll get to later] and who saw
herself as an advocate for rape victims, Levicy was later to acknowledge that
she had never doubted the truthfulness of a single rape accuser” (Johnson 33).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">“Over
the subsequent ten months, Levicy would repeatedly tell police that she thought
Mangum had been raped, adjusting her theories to bat aside new evidence that
the charge was false” (Johnson 34). Defense attorney Joe Cheshire later said, “Tara
Levicy’s stridency and inability to even examine an opposite point of view had
a lot to do with the genesis of this case. There are people like her in hospitals
all over this country” (Johnson 378).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the ordeal, David Evans, one of the falsely accused, said, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1546557,00.html">"This woman [i.e. Crystal Mangum] has destroyed everything I worked for in my life."</a> Reade Seligmann left Duke
and went on to graduate from Brown University in 2010, but as we will see, in
terms of misandry, the culture at Brown is not much better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You
would think that after this event Duke would be content to lay low and let the
dust settle for a while. You would think that if they did anything, at least it
wouldn’t be rash, especially in the area of sexual misconduct. No. In 2009 <a href="http://thefire.org/public/pdfs/57a91008373200ebc6f0585a38c65ce4.pdf?direct">Duke adopted a new sexual misconduct policy</a> that radically broadens the definition
of nonconsensual sex, in effect stripping many male students of due process
rights. The policy states, “real or perceived power differentials may create an
unintentional atmosphere of coercion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thefire.org/article/11730.html">The vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said, "Members of the men'sbasketball team could be punished for consensual sexual activity simply because they are 'perceived' as more powerful than other students after winning the national championship.”</a> The director of Duke university’s women’s center
justified the policy by saying of rapists, "The higher [the] IQ, the more
manipulative they are, the more cunning they are…imagine the sex offenders we
have here at Duke—cream of the crop."</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kiKYMy6ydZataSLj8a482LLsLYZ3mhflkRYF1d7ZUdyctDM-8rAxu7CswFdINHKtTEJsyORj-Z8FtX0FxVFMPeNAdOjKc2htJFK6TdP1UwBu-GyyPmPqj9_0o5z6AFce66SdL-3gOYjd/s1600/Degrees+Associates+New+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kiKYMy6ydZataSLj8a482LLsLYZ3mhflkRYF1d7ZUdyctDM-8rAxu7CswFdINHKtTEJsyORj-Z8FtX0FxVFMPeNAdOjKc2htJFK6TdP1UwBu-GyyPmPqj9_0o5z6AFce66SdL-3gOYjd/s200/Degrees+Associates+New+copy.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Given Duke’s history, it’s
a wonder why young men continue to attend. I
spend so much time talking about Duke because it is so emblematic of the
culture of higher education. And when we view that culture for what it is, we
perceive the source of a great many problems facing male students as a group.
For example, w</span><span style="font-size: large;">hy
is that that, despite the <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/war-on-male-students-introduction.html">incredible gaps in educational achievement between male and female students that have persisted for over 30 years</a>, diversity
administrators sit on their hands and do nothing, while continuing to pour
funding and energy into programs for female students? Why is it that
college-age students can parade around a banner reading “castrate” and faculty
can say the most slanderous things about male students based on nothing more
than their genetic code, and no administrator says or does anything, but <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-of-most-alienating-messages-that.html">little boys who are 9 and 6-years-old are suspended for sexual harassment for saying that a teacher is cute, or for singing “I’m sexy and I know it?”</a> What is going
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our education system is overrun by a group of misguided ideologues who
define their existence by words like equality and diversity, but have forgotten
what those words actually mean. They live under the false consciousness that
being progressive is not about eliminating prejudice and bigotry on the basis
of sex, but about “redistributing” that prejudice and bigotry so that it
changes sides, changes faces, and changes victims. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">But
what about the more moderate among those in the academia? Surely not all of
them are like that. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">In what I believe to be most revealing lesson the Duke case can teach
us about the culture of higher education, that answer comes fr</span>om the behavior
of one of the most moderate members of the Group of 88. It is an element of the
case that is almost never spoken of, and K.C. Johnson tells the story <a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Oto_HpK8tuA#t=30m56s?">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-66609731166517632952012-09-23T21:52:00.000-07:002012-09-26T06:03:18.948-07:00Misandry in Education – Introduction<div style="color: white; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Misandry is sexism against men and boys as a group, or against
individual men and boys based on their status as males. It can be expressed in
a myriad of ways. One way is by expressing hostility - either by direct
insults, or by implying that males are inherently unintelligent, unnecessary,
or dangerous. It is expressed by speaking of men and boys as if they deserve
our indifference, which has the effect of dehumanizing them and rendering them
more vulnerable to the slings and arrows of the world. It is expressed by
acting as if the well-being and vulnerabilities of women and girls are more
important than those of men and boys, or by enforcing one rule for men, and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In education especially, misandry can be expressed by the
assertion that a particular action, idea, body of knowledge, perspective or
invention is illegitimate simply because it was created or performed by someone
with a Y-chromosome. When certain individuals act like or claim that there is a
dark side to male nature and a good side to female nature, while denying,
despite all the evidence to the contrary, that there is a dark side to female
nature and a good side to male nature by dismissing them as “just myths and
stereotypes,” they are in effect saying men are bad and women are good, which
is misandry. Misandry is the belief that the worst among males is
representative of men and boys in general, or “normative masculinity,” or “male
culture,” or whatever broad brush is used to tar men as a group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I believe that <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-of-most-alienating-messages-that.html">suspending a 9-year-old boy for calling a teacher “cute,” or for singing “I’m sexy and I know it,” or for punishing boys – but not girls – who spank the bottoms of their classmates</a> is also a product of
misandry. In this sense, almost everything that I will cover in <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">The War on Male Students</a> – from the neglect of their educational needs, to the presence of
anti-male hostility, to the systemic destruction of their civil rights - is a
product or byproduct of misandry. But what I will address in this particular
line of videos and blog posts titled “Misandry in Education” is not so much misandry in the
form of actions, but misandry as it appears in the spoken and written word. And
while it can be reasonably said that not all, or even most, faculty,
administrators, or even students express sexism against men and boys, it also
bears mention that they don’t have to. Prejudice and hatred for men and boys –
just as it is for any other group – does not have to be consistently
all-encompassing to create a hostile learning environment. All it has to be is
consistently unopposed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Here, we will be unapologetically critical of the misandry of
Radical Feminism and its influence in education. Moderate Feminists are quick
to tell us that “not all Feminists are like that.” While that is certainly true
- and I do name the exceptions – it is not a justifiable reason in and of
itself to ignore or sweep under the carpet the sexism expressed by those who
are like that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At first, the lack of opposition to misandry by faculty and
administrators may seem understandable. Decades ago, like the frog in the
boiling water, many of them could not even identify the problem. And also, most
of the misandry in academia is a politicized form of sexism, and political
disagreements are often best avoided. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But when prejudice develops from an attitude among a scattered few
to a connected subculture, when that subculture becomes entrenched, and when it
metastasizes to the point that it begins to eat away at the civil rights of
those it targets, remaining silent is no longer a virtue. As we will see, misandry
in education is not merely a collection of infrequent and disassociated
anomalies arising from individuals uninfluenced by supportive or acquiescent
peer groups. On the contrary, it is a culturally pervasive in education in a way
that cannot be reasonably characterized as incidental, coincidental, or even
accidental.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a related note, there
are good-faith efforts springing up within academia to
help men and boys, particularly in terms of educational attainment. I created <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EgCZlVZfWQ">a video</a> and <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/project-males-new-hope-for-latino.html">blogged</a> about one of them, which is Project MALES at UT Austin, which
hosted two symposia which I attended, at one of which I volunteered. While good
hearts and good minds are working in such groups, they do have limitations.
First, many such groups and initiatives (with few exceptions, one of them being
Project MALES) are isolated, poorly funded, and live only as long as they can
produce immediate results, or as long as the particular educator who champions
that particular cause remain employed at that facility, a phenomenon Richard
Whitmire documented in his book <i>Why Boys
Fail</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Second, absolutely none of them as of right now, September 2012, are
addressing the destruction of the civil rights of male students, and none of
them are investigating and developing the means to combat the subculture of
misandry which contributes to a hostile learning environment for male students.
And while these groups do have their hands full with the issue of educational
attainment alone, the fact remains that we need a strong and networked voice in
education to stand up for men and boys who are denigrated by sexism or have
their civil rights violated, and currently no such voice in academia exists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, after reviewing the general culture and structure of
academia for some time, I am convinced that groups which focus on the
inequities in educational attainment for men and boys will never get enough
funding for operations on a large enough scale, nor will they ever get the
approval they need from the right people in the right places, nor will academia
ever engage the lion’s share of its networking and funding potential to helping
male students until the cultural barriers of misandry and careerism are
weakened or removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And with that being said, let us begin.</span></div>
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-83643356647161282572012-09-21T22:59:00.000-07:002012-12-12T02:03:52.580-08:00Mission and Values<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This post is
long past due, and perhaps should have been the first post I made. Better late
than never, I suppose. I’m not sure whether many will read it, but I feel it’s
necessary to put it out there.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Men: overrepresented among the most brutal, filthy, and deadly jobs</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am an
advocate for equality for men and boys. Some people call me an advocate for men and boys, an
advocate for gender equity in education, or a men’s rights activist (or an MRA
for short). My online name is TCM, which stands for “The Common Man,” which is
indicative of the focus of the Men’s Movement on the inequities
disproportionately facing men and boys at the bottom of society, such as men’s
overrepresentation among prisons (~90%), military deaths (98%), suicides (80%),
workplace fatalities (93%), homelessness (85%), illness, school dropouts and under-enrollments,
and others. My specialization is education issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;">Mission
and Values:</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Educate the public on the issues and
needs of men and boys, especially in academic matters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Advocate the ideals of equality and
social justice, question the assumptions of traditional gender roles that are
limiting and harmful to men and boys, and compliment the current discourse on
gender equality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Take a stand against the phenomenon of
misandry – sexism against men and boys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Advocate a philosophy of
non-violence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Advocate the end of the zero-sum
approach to gender equity by stressing that for every women’s issue there is a
men’s issue, and that both sexes deserve our compassion and support.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Support and advocate – in limited and
appropriate measures - civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws, codes, customs, policies, directives, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">According to a notice on the University of Waterloo website:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Waterloo
Regional Police on Thursday announced that a sexual assault occurred on the
University of Waterloo campus on Monday, Sept. 17. The statement
from Waterloo Regional Police reads in part:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>'As
a result of investigation by Major Case Branch investigators, it has been
determined that a rape described at the University of Waterloo campus on
September 17, 2012 occurred.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No charges
have been filed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">False rape
accusations are treated very seriously at the University of Waterloo. A guide
to campus and community resources can be found at <a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/police/sexual-assault">http://uwaterloo.ca/police/sexual-assault</a>. The
university appreciates the efforts of Waterloo Regional Police and the
University of Waterloo Police Service in this investigation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just kidding.
The exact opposite happened. <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/police/news/sexual-assault-allegation-withdrawn">The real report</a> reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Waterloo
Regional Police on Thursday announced that a sexual assault alleged to have
happened on the University of Waterloo campus on Monday, Sept. 17, did not
occur. The statement
from Waterloo Regional Police reads in part:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>'As
a result of investigation by Major Case Branch investigators, it has been
determined that the female’s initial allegations to police were not true. The
sexual assault previously described at the University of Waterloo campus on
September 17, 2012, did not occur. Investigators are appreciative of public
assistance received during the investigation.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No charges
have been laid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
University of Waterloo remains committed to ensuring the safety of all members
of our campus community. Safety tips and a full outline of our campus safety
services and procedures is available online at <a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/police/personal-safety-guide">http://uwaterloo.ca/police/personal-safety-guide</a>. Sexual
assault is treated very seriously at the University of Waterloo. A guide to
campus and community resources can be found at <a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/police/sexual-assault">http://uwaterloo.ca/police/sexual-assault</a>. The
university appreciates the efforts of Waterloo Regional Police and the
University of Waterloo Police Service in this investigation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, what did
the <i>initial </i>report sound like? Did the university take a dispassionate stance,
or did they automatically side with the accuser? If you have been following <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4775862888492081481#editor/target=post;postID=4496146998396792681;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=11;src=postname">The War on Male Students</a>, you probably already know the answer. But if you don’t, <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/police/news/sexual-assault">here it is</a>, as well as something else besides:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“On Monday, September 17, between 10
and 10:30 p.m., a female student <span style="color: red;">was sexually assaulted</span>
by two males while walking through the west cul de sac between Village 1 and
Mackenzie King Village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Police provided the following
descriptions of the suspects, who fled after the assault:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Suspect 1: male, white, 19 years
old, 5’6”, with a heavy build, wearing a red hat</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Suspect 2: male, non-white, 19 years old,
6’, black hair, slender build.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ongoing investigation is being led
by Waterloo Regional Police, supported by University of Waterloo Police. We
will update the campus community as more information becomes available. Anyone
with information is asked to contact Waterloo Regional Police at 519-650-8500
ext. 3310, University of Waterloo Police at 519-888-4567 ext. 22222, or call
Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The safety of our students and all
members of our campus community is of paramount concern at the University of
Waterloo. As a result of this incident, campus police have increased patrols in
the area of the student residences. Students, faculty, staff and other members
of our community are encouraged to be alert to danger and report any suspicious
activity to campus police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When walking,</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Follow a major road at night, or a
well-lit path</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walk at a steady pace and with confidence
near the curb</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Avoid dark entrances and shrubs</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do not walk home alone at night — make
arrangements with a friend to meet and walk home together, call for a
ride, or use one of the resources offered by the university.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Further information about campus
safety resources, including our shuttle service, can be found online at <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/safety-resources">https://uwaterloo.ca/police/safety-resources</a>.
The shuttle service is available from the first day of registration to the last
day of exams. It leaves regularly from the Student Life Centre at about 7:00
p.m. in the winter, at 9:00 p.m. in the summer and runs until 2:00 a.m. <span style="color: red;">Women have first priority for rides. </span>Emergency
intercoms, with flashing blue lights, are located throughout the campus.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From a perspective of gender equity, some things
come to mind:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the final
report, the university tells us that “sexual assault is treated very seriously
at the University of Waterloo.” Here we have the usual: whenever a false rape
accusation occurs on campus, instead of telling us how seriously they treat
false accusations (which they can’t legitimately say because they don’t), the
university tells us that they instead take very seriously the crime that was
the subject of the false accusation. The same thing happened at my alma mater, A&M-Commerce:<a href="http://www.theeasttexan.com/assault-raises-safety-concerns-1.2119423#.UFwOTvkmV8E"> the initial report</a> was spun as if an assault had absolutely occurred, and <a href="http://www.theeasttexan.com/reported-assault-revealed-as-false-1.2123683#.UFwOW_kmV8E">the final report</a> focused primarily on the plight of rape victims, including a shadowy and fear-inspiring picture of a rapist (pictured below).</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtxvUp8XmuQtcrvCQlhvMvYR41bDII0JrmDAfnITmgvLhOKjkxwYeHPVVuTFdCnADsBHLt0oRZNZISJ49-VyKggAUrqwDCwPpLm7vhmx-ZFWcsvHcp3TPgMExttJWJkSmvYkc23Bcvu2I/s1600/2593486109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtxvUp8XmuQtcrvCQlhvMvYR41bDII0JrmDAfnITmgvLhOKjkxwYeHPVVuTFdCnADsBHLt0oRZNZISJ49-VyKggAUrqwDCwPpLm7vhmx-ZFWcsvHcp3TPgMExttJWJkSmvYkc23Bcvu2I/s320/2593486109.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
addition to telling us that a rape had absolutely occurred, the initial report
says that the suspect was “male, white,
19 years old, 5’6”, with a heavy build, and wearing a red hat.” I wouldn't like to be a male student who just casually came to school wearing a red hat that day,
or a man who anyone in the university had ever seen wearing a red hat. Just
think if a guy who had not seen the report was going to class and someone in
the class said, “hey didn’t you wear a red hat last semester?” And regardless
as to whether he did or did not respond by saying “oh yeah, yeah I did,” and regardless
as to whatever the police said in a final report, it wouldn’t matter. Thanks to
the university, he would already have been socially convicted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Concerning the
false rape accusation, the university tells us <span style="line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">no charges have been filed.</span>” That was a mistake. <span style="line-height: 115%;">A commenter <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/107fse/female_student_withdraws_her_sexual_assault/">on Reddit</a> argued that no charges
should be filed against the accuser, for this reason: “</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">This never got to a prosecution
stage. Once she presses false charges with the police and prosecution, <b>then</b>
it becomes serious.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I disagree, for this reason: punishments for false rape accusations
- even light forms of punishment - deter future false accusers. Given that the
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493352/Woman-falsely-cried-rape-EIGHT-times-spared-jail.html">lack of deterrence may promote future false rape accusations</a>, and given that
rape is such an emotionally charged accusation that it sometimes compels people
to make vigilante attacks against the person accused (which may result in
injury or death - see <a href="http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/innocent-schoolboy-was-shot-dead-after-girl-15-made-a-false-rape-claim-1630442.html">HERE </a>and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08/25/bc-vigillante-killing-courtenay-clinton-fredrick-martin.html?ref=rss">HERE </a>and <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/businessman-suffers-brain-damage-after-assault-over-false-rape-claim-1-832408">HERE</a>), adopting a policy of deterrence in regards to false rape
accusations - even if the punishment exists in light forms - is the best
policy, given that it may save someone's life down the road. And it bears
mention that when a university publicly presumes guilt against the person
accused, it has the potential to put a man’s life in danger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lastly, in describing the shuttle services, the
university tells us “<span style="color: red;">Women have first priority for
rides.”</span> In
case the University of Waterloo hasn’t noticed, men are the majority of victims
of street violence, including and especially homicides. If whites were the
majority of victims of violence, would they tell black students that white
students have priority over blacks? Need we remember the case of Rosa Parks (pictured right), an
African-American woman who sparked a national civil rights debate because she
refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person? In this case, male students aren’t being told they have to sit at the
back of the bus; they can’t even get on the bus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">An imbalance in resources between male and female victims, a
cultural crusade against male criminality with a casual indifference
toward female criminality, and discrimination against male students on the
basis of sex, these are things which we should see as a structural inequities. But
to a modern university, none of these things are perceived as inequities or
discriminations against male students; it is business as usual. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Several things need to change at the University of Waterloo:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#1 – In the initial campus reports, Waterloo needs to stop
reporting accusations of sexual misconduct as if they had absolutely occurred. The
university’s motto is “Concordia Cum Veritate,” which ironically means “in
harmony with truth.” It might be a good idea to practice that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#2 - Charges need to be brought against the woman who made a false
rape accusation. This needs to become standard operating procedure, and the
University of Waterloo needs to advocate and support this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#3 – Resources for the wrongly accused need to be in place at
Waterloo and posted at the university’s website.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#4 – The shuttle service needs to stop discriminating against male
students who wish to use the shuttles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And there’s probably a few other changes Waterloo University needs
to make, but that’s good to go on for now.</span></span></div>
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consult their administrators and tell them that what they are doing is not good
enough for the needs of male students. If the administrators refuse, I have
just the thing. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0ihL0Buyg">College campuses across the west sponsor an event called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.”</a> The intent of the event is to raise awareness of female
victims and to “stop men’s violence against women.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I propose that every University of Waterloo administrator who
thinks that these things are ok be given a red hat that they will put on, and then
(while wearing it) walk a mile through and around the University of Waterloo
campus. We’ll call it “Walk a Mile in His Red Hat.” Sounds catchy, eh?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Perhaps some university administrator may protest and say that
such a proposition is out of line. But why should they? Male students as a
group have all sorts of hostile and denigrating messages directed to them every
day, many of them approved by their university’s administration. W</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">hy should
university administrators object to experiencing for a brief punctuation of
time universities force male students to feel all the time?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If you want to visit the world’s largest blog giving a voice to
victims of wrongful accusations of sexual assault, visit The Community of the
Wrongly Accused at <a href="http://www.cotwa.info/">www.cotwa.info</a>. If you’d
like to learn more about discrimination against men and boys in education, visit <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">the archive page for The War on Male Students.</a></span></span><br />
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-63876997299741757512012-09-14T09:35:00.001-07:002012-09-17T03:53:05.210-07:00A Voice for Men Radio discusses The War on Male Students<span style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday, 9/11/12, I was invited to the news & activism segment of <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/avfm-radio/news-and-activism-misandry-in-education/">A Voice for Men Radio</a> to talk to James and Robert about <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">the war on men and boys in education</a>. The main issues discussed are educational attainment, misandry, and civil rights. We also discuss an interview recorded with Title IX Coordinator Michele Vieira concerning the sexual misconduct policy at A&M-Commerce, which ultimately led to <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-governance-feminism/am-title-ix-coordinator-protects-abuser-abusive-policy/">an article being published at A Voice for Men</a>. There was so much to talk about in the show that we went ~20 minutes over the time limit and we had several callers who each provided us with unique insights into the modern education system. Thanks to the hosts at AVFM radio! </span><br />
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TCMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909797325683131260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4775862888492081481.post-46652402340253602932012-09-09T09:34:00.001-07:002012-11-13T06:26:01.855-08:00A&M-Commerce Adopts Anti-Male Sexual Misconduct Policy<h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">*Updated 11/9/12*</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First of all, if you
are wrongly accused of sexual misconduct at A&M-Commerce, and especially if
you are wrongly convicted during a university hearing, please contact me, </span><a href="http://thefire.org/cases/submit/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and your attorney immediately. Be
sure to read FIRE’s</span><a href="http://thefire.org/public/pdfs/due-process.pdf?direct"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> guide to due process and fair procedure</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Also, I’d like to thank Paul Elam and the editors at A
Voice for men for </span><a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-governance-feminism/am-title-ix-coordinator-protects-abuser-abusive-policy/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">hosting my article</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> on their
website. The videos below are an expanded version of the article at A
Voice for Men.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Summary: the A&M-Commerce administration has adopted a policy that cuts deeply into the due process rights of male students accused of sexual misconduct, fails to punish those who falsely accuse male students and teachers of sexual harassment or rape, and has a history of taking down YouTube videos recorded by students of "outrageous harassing behavior" (in the Title IX Coordinator's own words) multiple times. This is proven by a recording of my meeting with the Title IX Coordinator.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*This article concerns the Department of Education's </span><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/april-4th-directive-part-i.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">April 4th Directive</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. It is part of the subseries <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-war-on-male-students-at-a.html">The War on Male Students at A&M-Commerce</a>, which is part of the larger series </span><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The War on Male Students</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. For a list of articles criticizing the lack of constitutional protections of the April 4 Directive (or "Dear Colleague" letter), click </span><a href="http://www.saveservices.org/camp/ded-directive/ded-editorials/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HERE </span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><a href="http://thefire.org/case/862"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.* </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*A recording of the full interview between TCM and Title IX Coordinator Michele Vieira of A&M-Commerce is provided below. To download a 14MB WAV-format recording of the full interview that can be easily attached to emails, click </span><a href="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/60022120/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HERE.</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> To download a 70MB MP3 version (which is too big to attach to most emails but will play on more programs), click </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/tcm-2/interview-michele-vieira-and/download"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. You can also view </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh2a--Ju3qQ"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part 1</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJBBXXtiLQ"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part 2</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the full interview on YouTube.</span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On April 4th, 2011, the Department of Education’s Office on
Civil Rights (OCR) issued </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/dear_colleague_sexual_violence.pdf"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the “Dear Colleague” letter</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, sometimes called the
“April 4th Directive,” to colleges and universities across the
United States. I’ll do a brief recap of the directive to make
sure we’re on the same page.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Although the directive has some good parts, it also contains
guidelines that eviscerate the due process rights of men and boys accused of
sexual misconduct. Most egregiously, the directive mandates that schools adopt
the “preponderance of evidence” standard in adjudicating complaints, lowering
the standard to convict the accused (an act which leads to expulsion, a
permanent career-destroying black mark on their record, as well as ostracism
from one’s community) to a likelihood of 50.01% that the alleged conduct
occurred. So in other words, administrators don’t have to be sure that the
student accused actually committed sexual assault before they expel them and ruin
their lives; they just have to believe it was slightly more likely than not
that the accuser is telling the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition, among other things, the directive allows accusers to
appeal the findings of the hearing and start a whole new hearing over again, in
effect allowing them to make double jeopardy accusations. Unlike most policies established
in a civil society, the directive was issued in the still of the night, with no
chance for public examination or debate. And since </span><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/In-Making-Campuses-Safe-for/127766/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the OCR is infamous for threatening to fine or withhold federal funding</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from universities where female students
experience any kind of discomfort that is not remedied by the administration
within 60 days (which is the deadline set by the directive in how long
universities have to adjudicate complaints of sexual assault), many universities
are not adopting the terms of the directive on a basis of ethics or morality, but
simply to be in a higher standing to receive federal funding.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The directive also states that “The school’s Title IX investigation is
different from any law enforcement investigation, and a law enforcement
investigation does not relieve the school of its independent Title IX
obligation to investigate the conduct.” So in other words, law enforcement and
universities will each be conducting their own investigations, and they may
each come to different conclusions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is already happening to students like <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caleb Warner from the University of North
Dakota. Not only did police find that there was not enough evidence to pursue a
charge against him, they charged his accuser with filing a false report. Caleb
Warner, however, was found guilty at a university hearing and expelled.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes these hearing are adjudicated exclusively by the assistant
dean of students– meaning that we sometimes have the prosecutor, judge and jury
all rolled into one person. At other times, it is adjudicated by a panel of
teachers and administrators, or a mix of teachers, administrators and students.
The entire process is overseen by Title IX Coordinators, who are present at
every university and are the overarching authority on gender equity in those
institutions. They are normally members of that school’s department of
diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Princeton University, however, did something rather innovative: they
decided to use a higher standard of evidence for adjudicating complaints of
sexual misconduct, but created a parallel process with a lower standard of
evidence for deciding whether certain support services needed to be provided
for the accuser. <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-21/title-ix-campus-sexual-violence/54456812/1">As reported by USA Today</a>, Russlynn Ali, <o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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head of OCR, indicated she wasn't necessarily opposed to a two-tracked system.
She declined to address any particular school, but said OCR was talking with
colleges about their concerns and would study them "case by case" —
suggesting colleges may have more flexibility than they realize.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most schools, however, were
not willing to take a chance on missing out on federal funding. After the
directive was issued, controversy arose as they scrambled to comply. Law
Professor Cynthia Bowman of Cornell University </span><a href="http://cornellsun.com/node/50955"><span style="font-family: inherit;">remarked</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, “To impose those
consequences on someone requires a rigorous standard of proof and many due
process protections to ensure fairness. Indeed, there is general agreement
among faculty at the Law School that the procedures being proposed are
Orwellian.” The hysteria that followed the Directive led former Department
of Education attorney Hans Bader </span><a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120422/news/704229945/print/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to remark</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, “Innocent people get found guilty
of harassment because the school realizes the only way it can avoid liability is
to punish everybody in sight.” Even Brett Sokolow, founder of the National
Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM), noticed the hysteria </span><a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120422/news/704229945/print/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">andsaid</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, “It’s such a fear-based reaction that a lot of colleges now are expelling
and suspending people they shouldn’t, for fear they’ll get nailed on Title IX
[4].” Organizations like </span><a href="http://thefire.org/case/862"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">,
</span><a href="http://www.accusingu.org/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stop Abusive and Violent Environments</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/highlightsarchive/2011/aliletter.htm"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The American Association of University Professors</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and numerous others, including </span><a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/activism/an-urgent-and-rare-opportunity-to-speak-out/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Voice for Men</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a href="http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/04/most-important-issue-this-blog-has-ever.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Community of the Wrongly Accused</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, have all sharply criticized the
directive and called for it to be rescinded. They have been met with a wall of
silence. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">In addition to the great work being done to raise awareness of the
directive, I believe we must also work creatively to provide influence that
helps protect them right now. It’s
important to remember that overwhelmingly, the students are completely unaware
of this, until they are wrongly accused of sexual assault, at which point they
are blindsided by it.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">In the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, in April of
2012 I met with the Title IX Coordinator Michele Vieira and the Assistant Dean
of Students Robert Dotson at A&M-Commerce, where I studied for my bachelor’s
and master’s and taught freshman composition and argumentation, but had suddenly
dropped out of the master’s program without explanation two and a half years
ago. You may listen to the entirety of our interview in my other videos. My
goal in the meetings was not to argue or debate, but to ask for clarification on
university policy, and ask them to adopt the model used Princeton University. I
knew, however, that I did not have the luxury of underestimating the entrenched
interests that perpetuate the inequities men and boys face in education, nor would
those entrenched interests be overcome by merely asking. And that is exactly
why I recorded a few of our conversations.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I will speak briefly of my meeting with Robert Dotson because many of
his answers were the same as Michelle’s (and many others were vague responses),
and that little else is eventful in our conversation. At the end
of our meeting, I asked him to adopt the sexual misconduct model used by Princeton.
While he encouraged me to send him an email about it, he ended the
conversation <span style="color: black;">by saying</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">,
“I don’t know - I’m a preponderance kind of guy. It’s hard to teach an old dog
new tricks.”</span> </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I may still be naïve in some areas, but I can recognize a “no” when I
hear it. I knew immediately that it would be no further use to speak with him
on the matter. And regardless, nothing could be achieved without the Title IX
Coordinator. Given that this series deals with educational equity for men and
boys, it is the meeting with the Title IX Coordinator that most directly concerns
us. One of my concerns was clarification over the university’s definition of
sexual assault, </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">given that I have
heard many definitions advocated which would classify myself as a victim (which
I do not believe I was). I have, for example, had sex when I didn’t want, but
went along with it to please my partner (to which she answered “no”), after
drinking alcohol moderately (“no” again), and after I was asked repeatedly (to
which she answered “possibly”). </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It bears mention, however, that it doesn’t matter what
the university’s definition of rape is if the standard of evidence is so low
that it requires no evidence at all. “Really, when you boil it down to it, it’s
who can tell the best story,” she said. But should that really be the case,
especially when the standard of evidence is little more than a coin toss? It is
well known that even innocent persons may embellish or lie in their statements,
usually out of fear, uncertainty, or to cover up something else. If
administrators happen to catch two out of three embellishments by an innocent student
who is wrongly accused but only one out of three made by his accuser, the
wrongly accused student has a high chance of being found “guilty” and having
his life destroyed.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Another concern was that <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf">the figure cited</a> from a Justice Department
report by Russlynn Ali that 1 in 5 college women are victims of attempted or
completed sexual assault, which Ali is using as a justification for the preponderance
standard. While the disclaimer that it is not an official document is stamped
on every page of the report, Michelle Vieira agreed with the figure. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">If you review the campus crime reports for any university, you will
find that the 1-in-X statistics do not match up. For example, A&M-Commerce is
a university with over ten thousand students. <a href="http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/studentlife/campusservices/universityPoliceDepartment/recordsAndStatistics/campusSafetyReport.pdf">The campus crime statistics</a> report
an average of one sexual assault a
year - if we round up. For the year 2008, there were none.
But somehow we jump from that number to one
thousand. Even factoring in underreporting (a reasonable concern), the
numbers just don’t add up. And even if they did, what does that say about the
administration? Around the time of the interview, <a href="http://ketr.org/post/am-commerces-binnion-hall-closed-thursday">A&M-Commerce closed down Binnion Hall because of a water leak</a>. If the administration truly believed
that there is an epidemic of rape which would translate to roughly 3 rapes each
day (and in turn justify the evisceration of due process rights), wouldn’t it
make sense to advocate closing down the campus – or at least the dorms - until
the problem is resolved? Or does the administration truly believe that a water
leak more important?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Why would statistics on sexual assault be so inflated? <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19931010&id=w2NPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3761,2515343">An article in the Toledo Blade</a> informs us of a history among those who conduct research on
the prevalence of sexual assault on campus:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><em>Researchers
say they can just as easily design a study that finds 1 in 4 women have been
raped as 1 in 50. A slight change in the definition of rape or the way
questions are worded can yield drastically different results. Scientists
responsible for the highest numbers are passionate advocates who believe rape
is very common. This troubles even some in the field.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></h2>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">One
scientist is a self-described radical feminist. Another conducted her study
with the backing of Ms. Magazine, for years a leading voice of the women’s
movement. Still another helped open one of the country’s first rape crisis
centers. All told, some critics conclude the rape numbers are inflated. They
charge this has been done to boost support for the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></h2>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Among
those who believe this: Eugene Kanin, a pioneer researcher in the field who
describes himself as an “ardent feminist.” Back in the 1950s, while a teaching
associate at Indiana University, he was trying to discover how many high school
girls experienced “sexual aggression” on dates. At the time, he says, people
laughed at his work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></h2>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Today,
he is a retired sociology professor from Purdue University. He says he is
saddened by the current research. “This is highly convoluted activism rather
than social science research,” he says. Even some scientists who don’t
criticize the high rape numbers say there is pressure to come up with
eye-popping rates. “There was some pressure – at least I felt pressure – to
have rape be as prevalent as possible,” says the University of Washington’s Margaret
Gordon, who, in a study published in 1981, found relatively low sexual assault
rates. “I’m a pretty strong feminist, but one of the things I was fighting was
that the really avid feminists were trying to get me to say that things were
worse than they really are,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What Ms. Vieira perhaps does not realize is that the definitions of
sexual assault to which she earlier responded “no” are often the very
definitions used by ideologically-driven researchers in their tabulations of
campus sex-assault victims to reach their 1-in-X figures. Dissenting Feminist
professor Christina Hoff-Sommers deconstructed the infamous 1-in-4 study by
Mary Koss, wherein a quarter of the women classified as victims did not
themselves think they had been raped, and 42% of the “victims” went on to have
sex with their “attackers” again (see the chapter Rape Research in her book Who Stole Feminism). In </span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_campus_rape.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the article “The Campus Rape Myth</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">,”
Heather McDonald reports that in a similar study, 65% of the “victims” “did not
think that their experiences were ‘serious enough to report’” and “generally
did not state that their victimization resulted in physical or emotional
injuries.” </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">My next concern was false accusations, which Ms. Vieira answered of
her own initiative:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><em>We have
had occasion for someone to accuse someone of sexual harassment or assault and
we find that they were just mad because they got a D in the class. And they go
through a nightmare while we do the investigation. And the sad part is, the
person who did the accusing didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. They just
walked away. We don’t have anything in place in this university to address
false accusations.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And while not the sole reason, this is one of the main reasons I
dropped out of the master’s program at A&M-Commerce and abandoned my dream
of becoming a professor of English. Why should I spend another 5-7 years trying
to finish my masters and get my doctorate, put myself in tens of thousands of
dollars of student loan debt, subject myself to the brutal job competition in
an age when the supply of teachers is high, the demand low and tenure is being
phased out -when academia affords me no protection on the road to get there,
and if I do get there, affords me little protection even then?</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">In her book Heterophobia, dissenting
Feminist and former Women’s Studies professor Daphne Patai documents cases
where professors were falsely accused of harassment and rape for merely bringing
up in their classes the fact that some women falsely accuse men of rape, as
well as cases of students who become infatuated with their professors, who come
into their offices and find ways to turn their conversations toward personal
affairs, and then falsely accuse their professors of harassment or rape when
they turn down their advances. It also bears mention that you don’t have to be
wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct to have your reputation or career
destroyed, or for you to become disillusioned with teaching. Because for far
too many people, the guilt is not created by the conviction; it is created by
the accusation. And when you have no deterrent for committing false
accusations, how are we really protecting people from a hostile learning or
hostile working environment?</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now reverse the situation and ask yourself: what would happen if
Russlynn Ali came down from the OCR, walked into the offices of several
administrators at UT Austin and was told “we don’t have anything at this
university to address sexual misconduct, but we’re thinking about it.” What kind
of reaction could we reasonably expect? I would imagine she would probably make
a public example out of them, and would not have any remorse in doing so.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now ironically, Ms. Vieira does mention that the university did move
to protect a teacher - not an innocent one, but a professor who exhibited harassing
behavior that was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. "A student recorded it and put it up there. We've taken it down five times now." I didn’t probe too much into it, but I am curious: what if others
had experienced harassing behavior from that professor who would only have come
forward if they knew others who had the same experience? If parents knew their
child had been in that professor’s class, wouldn’t it be good for them to know
so they could ask their child if he or she had experienced something similar? If
underreporting is such a problem, and if the professor is truly guilty, why
suppress awareness of harassing behavior?</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">But perhaps the most telling part of our meeting was when I asked her
– if she removed from the equation liabilities, rules and regulations - if the
policy she was being asked to enforce was morally justified. Instead of answering, she
averted her eyes from me and looked down at her desk, and eventually said, "I don't think I can fully state my opinion on that.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">
While attending a required sexual harassment seminar as an instructor at A&M-Commerce, I was given the litmus test for avoiding behavior that could be construed as harassment: if you have to ask whether a form of conduct is objectionable, you probably should not do it. A similar litmus test can be applied to administrators who employ or enforce low standards of evidence to find students and teachers guilty of sexual assault: if you cannot look in the eye someone who has been a student and instructor at your university for over eight years and tell him what you are doing is justified, you probably should not be doing it.</span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of our meeting, I asked that the university adopt the
“clear and convincing” standard after the manner of Princeton University. I
drafted my request in writing and emailed it to Ms. Vieira, who told me that
she forwarded it to her boss Dr. Edward Romero, the president of diversity at
A&M-Commerce, and Dr. Joni Baker, the director of diversity for the entire
A&M system. This is what I said:<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ms. Vieira,<br />
<br />
I'd like to thank you again for speaking with me last Thursday and Friday. You
dedicated a lot of time to the concerns I had, and I was pleasantly surprised
not only with how willing you were to speak on such a weighty matter, but also
that we could occasionally punctuate the seriousness of the topic with a bit of
humor and pleasant conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></h2>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You mentioned that I might write an email
addressing my concerns about university policy, which you might then pass along
to certain individuals or committees. I have prepared that letter, which
comprises the bulk of this email. While I'm not sure if it will make any
impression, I am grateful for the opportunity. With that in mind, please
forward this message to whoever you feel is appropriate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></h2>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Admittedly, though, I am unsure to whom I should
specifically address the remainder of this email, or what their titles might
be. <br />
<br />
Thank you for your help and your time,<br />
<br />
[TCM]</span></em></span></h2>
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</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<br />
Here is the message that Ms. Vieira forwarded (allegedly) to Dr. Romero and Dr.
Joni Baker:<br />
<br />
<br />
</span><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello,<br />
<br />
My name is [TCM]. As an alumnus and former instructor at A&M-Commerce, I
feel compelled to write the university on a matter that has been weighing on my
heart in regard to the safety of the community at my alma mater. Specifically,
I would like to address the preponderance standard with which judicial affairs
currently determines whether a student or faculty member is found in violation
of university policy on sexual assault. My purpose in writing is to request, in
behalf of the wrongly accused, that A&M-Commerce adopt the clear and
convincing standard of evidence in hearings on sexual assault, specifically.<br />
<br />
In trials on sexual assault, criminal courts employ the standard of
"beyond a reasonable doubt," the highest possible standard of proof.
I and many others believe this is unsuited for academic settings, since justice
for sex-assault victims would be extremely unlikely under a standard so high. A
lower standard would be the "clear and convincing" standard, which I
view as a kind of middle ground. The lowest legal standard would be the
preponderance standard, in which the adjudicating individual(s) feels it is
"more likely than not," or that there is 50.1% likelihood, that the
alleged offense occurred. This is the same standard courts use for traffic
fines and parking tickets.<br />
<br />
Sexual assault is rightly considered one of the most heinous of crimes in our
jurisprudence, and society rightly responds with vigilance toward its
offenders, and support toward its victims. Given the seriousness of the charge,
false or misidentified accusations of sexual assault are among the most
destructive forms of false reporting. Given the stigma and ostracism that often
afflicts those wrongly accused, and the persistence with which it will follow
them in the internet age, false and mistaken accusations of sexual assault have
the power to destroy their means of educating themselves, making a living,
creating loving and committed relationships, and becoming successful and
productive members of society. In other words, it has the power to ruin not
only individual lives, but fracture communities. <br />
<br />
It is unfortunate that, in some cases, we do not have adequate means of knowing
who is innocent. In such cases, with such a low standard of proof and given the
nebulous nature of the crime, especially in the presence of alcohol, it seems
regrettably probable that for universities which apply the preponderance
standard to hearings on sexual assault, it is not a question of if a student or
teacher will be wrongly found in violation (and subsequently punished), but of
when.<br />
<br />
Numerous faculty and administrators across the West have expressed concern for
a system that compels them to render judgments in cases when they do not have
enough information to make such weighty decisions. These sentiments can easily
be found by Googling such articles as "An Open Letter to OCR" at Inside
Higher Ed, or "Rights Advocates Spar over Policy on Sexual Assault"
at the Cornell Daily Sun. It is not my intention to create evidence by a list
of quotes and citations, however, but rather to illustrate their concern: that
when the evidence is insufficient, they need breathing room to express their
reservations with confidence, and say "We do not have enough evidence to
move forward in judgment against either party."<br />
<br />
Accusers, of course, should have access to support services, regardless of the
outcome of the hearing, as well as the option of pursuing the case through the
legal system with the assistance of the university, and those found guilty of
sexual assault should be promptly removed from the community. I firmly support
these and many other functions that universities assume in this area. It is
only concerning the preponderance standard that I would request change.<br />
<br />
Recently I was asked, "What forms of evidence would you say satisfy the
requirement of a clear and convincing standard?" I could define it here,
but it would require a lengthy and detailed examination of such cases. Thus,
out of respect for your time, I will simply summarize by saying it is, so to
speak, "more than a feeling."<br />
<br />
Thank you for your time and attention. If you find occasion or desire to
do so, I am gladly willing to speak with you further on this matter. <br />
<br />
Respectfully,<br />
<br />
[TCM]</span></em></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After waiting for a while for a reply, which I didn’t receive, I took
the initiative and emailed Dr. Baker, asking to meet and discuss the nature of
my request. This is what I said:<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi Dr.
Baker, <br />
<br />
My name is [TCM]. I am an alumnus and former instructor at A&M-Commerce.
Roughly two months ago I spoke with Michele Vieira, the Title IX and Equal
Opportunity Coordinator at that university, concerning the due process
implications of the April 4th Directive issued by the OCR last year. While we
also discussed the current graduation gap between male and female students,
most of our discussion was concerning the directive. After formally submitting
my concerns to her in writing, she sent me an email on May2, telling me that
she had forwarded them in an email to you. I never received a reply.<br />
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I am wondering if you wouldn’t mind meeting at some point in the near future
–particularly on a Thursday or Friday, if possible - to discuss the directive, and
possibly other diversity issues. Given that I currently reside in [withheld]
and the trip would be over three hours, I would make the trip to you at a
location of your convenience.<br />
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One of the reasons I would like to speak with you concerning this is that it
was a strong factor in my choice to abandon continuing my masters at
A&M-Commerce, and with that my dream of becoming a professor. Many
students, as well as aspiring and existing male teachers, are concerned that
innocent persons accused of sexual misconduct have been and will continue to be
harmed by low standards of proof and a lack of other checks and balances, and
this concern remains a structural barrier for many men in teaching professions.
I understand that there are many things which demand your time. If there is a way
you can find the time to speak with me, however, I would greatly appreciate it.
For your notes and convenience of reference I have pasted below this message
the email conversation between Michele Vieira and myself.<br />
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Thank you for your time and attention,<br />
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would have, though, if I were a representative of the American Association of
University Women. So I sent an email to Ms. Vieira, wishing her a pleasant
summer and asking to meet one last time. This is what I said:</span></span></h2>
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Ms. Vieira,<br />
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I hope your summer is going well. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind briefly
speaking with me once more before the fall semester begins, just to wrap up a
few things we discussed earlier. Any time this Thursday or Friday or in the
morning next week would work. If you're available, feel free to email me back
and name whatever time is best for you and I will accommodate it. Hope to hear
from you, and that all is well.<br />
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Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was my hope that Ms. Vieira and I could work together to solve the
civil rights issues facing the wrongly accused. As an alumnus, I could say
things that would be difficult for her to say, and we could use the story of my
dropping out, combined with the pressing crisis of educational underachievement
among male students, to demonstrate that the time had come to make a change. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now at this point, Ms. Vieira has a choice. She knows that the university’s
process of adjudicating accusations of sexual assault is flawed, to say the
least. She knows I am being courteous, I’m not being argumentative, and that
I’m willing to build bridges and quite possibly work with her on addressing a
longstanding problem. She has an opportunity that does not come her way every
day. And if she takes that opportunity, it will be a difficult road, but it may
also preclude future difficulties that may be equally or more undesirable. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Unfortunately, that is not what she does. I never received a reply
from either Joni Baker or Ms. Vieira. Now remember that I don’t know for a fact
that Ms. Vieira forwarded my email to the other administrators. I’m assuming
so, although it is possible that this assumption is too generous – I don’t
know. If you listen to the interview, you’ll hear that it wasn’t hard for me to
talk with Ms. Vieira. Her demeanor was kind, and we exchanged many laughs
despite the seriousness of the topic. But if all we get out of it is pleasant
conversation, how much have we really accomplished? What has changed? Nothing
has changed. And if I leave it at that and do nothing further, have I really
done the best I can do?</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Those who have viewed the rest of the blog posts and videos in this series have seen
that academia has had numerous chances to reflect upon the standing of male
students as a group, to learn from some high-profile events about how they have
been treated, and use them as opportunities to make positive change. Overwhelmingly,
academia has declined to embrace those opportunities. Since that is what <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html">this entire series</a> is about, I encourage the uninitiated to watch the rest of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have learned through painful experience
that if we have to wait for it to become politically convenient for education
administrators to break ranks and take a public stand for the civil rights of
men and boys, it will never happen. We no longer have time to wait on them, nor
reason to assume that things will work themselves out on their own. That is the
rationale for what is going on here. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now that this interview and article have been published online,
wrongly accused and potentially wrongly convicted students will be able to
easily find information about what goes on behind the scenes. They will easily
be able to hear the Title IX Coordinator’s silence, her reservation, and
finally her inability to bring herself to answer me in the affirmative when I
asked her “is this policy justified?” Prospective and current teachers can hear
that A&M-Commerce has nothing in place to protect them from false accusations.
And parents and students can hear that the administration has a history of
suppressing awareness of professors harassing students. And now that it is out
in the open, there’s no telling where this could go. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Although some have made comments to the contrary, I don’t think
Michele Vieira is an ideological extremist. I think she is a much more moderate
person. She expressed reservations about the problems in the policy, she
expressed some empathy toward the wrongly accused, but wasn’t willing to break
ranks and take the steps necessary to remedy it. In that sense, she is much
more comparable to professor Susan Thorne at Duke University, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c7Tw6KS7rk&t=24m44s">which we covered in the video dedicated to Duke</a>.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: white;">Administrators are</span>
<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/10/28/essay-ocr-guidelines-sexual-assault-hurt-colleges-and-students">caught in a tight spot</a>. <span style="color: white;">Theirs is not an enviable position. And despite the
power that is accorded them, I can imagine there are times when some of them
feel rather powerless. I understand that the OCR is holding a gun to their
head. But what they must understand is that so long as they follow their
orders, they are currently doing the same to their students.</span> </span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The
wisdom passed down to us from generations of civil rights activism is that we
never need permission to stand up for civil rights. As Martin Luther King, Jr.
said, “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.
Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." The
same values, of course, hold true for all codes, customs, policies, and
directives. Most of the time, rules do serve a useful purpose. But there is a
higher authority than rules: the authority of conscience and justice. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Administrators and some faculty have a choice to make. They must come
to a place in their hearts where they are able to set aside all factors that
are external to the ethics of what they are doing - factors of liabilities,
factors of funding, factors of careerism. They must ask themselves: if I remove
all these external elements from the equation, is what is going on morally
justified? I asked Ms. Vieira that question, and she was not able to answer me.
But when it comes down to it, it doesn’t matter whether administrators answer
that question truthfully to people like me. What matters is whether they are
honest with themselves.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">If you listen to the full interview, you will hear that in the
interview I was nice, and I was nice throughout. Not a single time did I argue
or make demands - let alone threats - for this reason: if at all possible, I
don’t want faculty and administrators to do the right thing because they feel
they are being forced, because that’s not worth as much as if they did it of
their own free will. Someone who believes in those values is a much more
effective and noble administrator of those values than someone who is
essentially a mercenary who chooses their side in exchange for titles and
money. I didn’t want people in academia to break ranks and work with others to
make positive structural because someone else wanted her to do it; I wanted
them to do it because they wanted to do it.</span></span></h2>
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Unfortunately, it didn't work out.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In </span><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-of-most-alienating-messages-that.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Part One</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> of Sexual Harassment Hysteria in Lower Education, we covered numerous examples of overreactions to accusations of sexual harassment, and the damage caused to boys in the process. In this post on </span><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html"><span style="font-size: large;">The War on Male Students</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, we will cover more cases of boys being subjected to heavy-handed labels and punishments, as well as the roots of the current hysteria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now </span><a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/"><span style="font-size: large;">this one</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> isn’t sexual harassment per se, but I do believe it merits attention. It is part of a continuum, you might say, on how our schools treat men and boys accused of sexual misconduct. And that continuum too often ranges from indifference to hostility. Here we have the administrator taking on the role of a corrupt prosecutor, attempting to bargain down the charges so he can snag the boy with whatever he can.
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<a href="http://www.channel3000.com/news/Lawsuit-Says-Prosecutor-Went-Too-Far-In-Charging-Boy/-/1648/8299052/-/1ooirbz/-/index.html"><span style="font-size: large;">A 2011 online article by Channel 3000</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, a CBS affiliate, says, in “MADISON, Wis. - A 6-year-old Grant County boy has been accused of first-degree sexual assault after playing "doctor" with two 5-year-old friends. Now, a federal lawsuit has been filed against the prosecutor, who attorneys said is trying to force the boy to admit guilt.
“The boy's parents had planned to speak with WISC-TV on Monday to discuss the emotional toll the prosecution has taken on their son. But the prosecutor, Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker, on Monday morning asked a judge for a gag order in the case and was granted it. The gag order prohibits the boy's parents from talking about the case. But the attorneys for the parents in the federal suit, which names Riniker as a defendant, can aren't included in the gag order, and they spoke with WISC-TV from Chicago.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Attorneys for the parents of the 6-year-old, who is being referred to as ‘D,’ said that Riniker has gone too far by bringing a felony sex charge against a first-grader for touching a 5-year-old girl inappropriately while playing doctor last fall. ‘That behavior by a prosecutor is outrageous,’ said Christopher Cooper, an attorney for the boy's parents. Cooper and attorney David Sigale filed the federal suit last week, alleging that Riniker wants D to sign a consent decree admitting some level of guilt.
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<span style="font-size: large;">"’We're certainly hoping to vindicate D in the eyes of the law,’ Sigale said. ‘He says he didn't do it, and the little girl says he didn't do it. The little girl says he touched the back of one of her buttocks,’ Cooper said. The attorneys are also asking for about $12 million in damages from Riniker and two co-defendants. Cooper and Sigale said they are prepared to present evidence that D has been psychologically harmed by the court proceedings and is terrified of going to jail.
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<span style="font-size: large;">"’[District Attorney] Riniker bypassed the parents and sent a 6-year-old boy a summons, on which is a threat that the 6-year-old will go to jail for failure to appear,’ Cooper said. The attorneys said they have sought the opinion of many experts who said that children ‘playing doctor’ is not a sex crime. ‘(The experts say) a 6-year-old child is unable to intellectually and emotionally associate sexual gratification with the act that D has been accused of committing,’ Cooper said.
In justification for the charge, Riniker is quoted in the lawsuit saying ‘the Legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute ... the legislature did no such thing.’”</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040203463.html"><span style="font-size: large;">A 2008 article in the Washington Post titled “For Little Children, Grown-Up Labels as Sexual Harassers,”</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> tells us this story:
“In his seven years, Randy Castro has been an aspiring soccer player, an accomplished Lego architect and a Royal Ranger at his Pentecostal church. He also, according to his elementary school record, sexually harassed a first-grade classmate.
During recess at his Woodbridge school one day in November, when he was 6, he said, he smacked the classmate's bottom. The girl told the teacher. The teacher took Randy to the principal, who told him such behavior was inappropriate. School officials wrote an incident report calling it 'Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive,' which will remain on his student record permanently.
Then, as Randy sat in the principal's office, they called the police.
'I thought they were going to take me to prison,' Randy said recently. 'I was scared.'"
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we should all support discipline for this kind of behavior in some form, is it really necessary to call the police and potentially lead a 6-year-old boy away in handcuffs for a one-time offense of spanking someone on the rear end?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article continues:
“Randy is only one of many children to be dealt with harshly as schools across the country grapple with enforcing new zero-tolerance sexual harassment policies and the fear of litigation.
The Virginia Department of Education reported that 255 elementary students were suspended last year for offensive sexual touching, or 'improper physical contact against a student.' In Maryland, 166 elementary school children were suspended last year for sexual harassment, including three preschoolers, 16 kindergartners and 22 first-graders, according to the State Department of Education. Statistics for the District were not available.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">And to make sure we are all seeing the gravity of this, that’s 255 suspensions of elementary students. Not lower education in general. Not middle school. Not high school. Just elementary students, just for one state, and just for one year.
</span><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/tables/table-sdi-1.asp"><span style="font-size: large;">Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that boys are twice as likely to be suspended and three times as likely to be expelled as girls</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. How many of those suspensions and expulsions are due to overreactions that are labeled sexual harassment? And when such heavy-handed punishments are dealt out to boys during those years when their hearts and minds are the most vulnerable and formative, how can we expect them to not be jarred by the experience? </span><a href="http://www.nccrest.org/Exemplars/Disporportionality_Truth_In_Labeling.pdf"><span style="font-size: large;">A report from The National Education Association tells us that 75% of those with learning disabilities are boys</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. How many academic problems spring from behavioral and psychological problems that are compounded when we treat boys in such a heavy-handed fashion?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article continues:
“In 2006, a kindergartner in Hagerstown, Md., was accused of sexual harassment after pinching a female classmate's buttocks. A 4-year-old in Texas was given an in-school suspension after a teacher's aide accused him of sexual harassment for pressing his face into her breasts when he hugged her."
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<span style="font-size: large;">And on </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040203463_2.html?sid=ST2008040203589"><span style="font-size: large;">page two of the article</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, going back to the story of Randy:
“Claudia Castro, a preschool teacher in Alexandria, said she was shocked when officials at Randy's school called to say that he was in trouble and that they were calling the police. She later met with the principal and assistant principal. 'I told them that what he did was not appropriate. And I have talked to him about it. What I don't understand is how you can make a police report on a 6-year-old. But the principal told me that they were making reports to the police <u>every single day</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Mary Kay Sommers, president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, said suspensions and calls to the police in such cases are overkill. The correct response, she said, would be to explore whether the behavior is linked to abuse and to teach students about respecting peers and what constitutes ‘good touch’ or ‘bad touch.’
'There's no way these children understand what's going on. But it's been taken out of our hands. That's the difficult moral dilemma that we face,’ Sommers said. She blamed two Supreme Court decisions from the 1990s that enable suits against school districts for failing to stop sexual harassment as well as zero-tolerance policies aimed at middle and high school students that are applied to students as young as 5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Since November, Randy has been calling himself a ‘bad boy,’ his mother said.
Castro said school officials rejected her appeal to remove the sexual harassment incident from Randy's permanent file. And now she worries that they have branded him a troublemaker.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes – he is now labeled. And labels, especially those imposed publicly and by authority figures, tend to stick. I hope these cases illustrate not only the fundamental problems with sexual harassment policy, but also the culture that boys are facing in education.
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2010, a Duke University student named Karen Owens catalogued her sexual encounters with 13 members of Duke's athletic team in the form of a PowerPoint presentation titled "An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal activities" (article </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/does-karen-owens-duke-sex_n_764208.html"><span style="font-size: large;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">). She ranked them by numerous criteria, among them "“Size – points were determined based on the length and girth of the Subjects’ hardware.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're a man or woman and want to have sex with a hundred men or a hundred women, that’s none of my business, so long as you’re not spreading any diseases along the way. What I do care about is how society responds differently based on who they are. So what happens when a male student does the same thing as Karen Owens? </span><br />
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<a href="http://triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/2011/05/10/student-arrested-in-flap-over-list-ranking-high-school-girls/"><span style="font-size: large;">A news article</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> in Chicago tells us:
On May 10th, 2011:
“A male former student police believe was responsible for creating and circulating an offensive list ranking females on their appearance was arrested and is being charged with disorderly conduct, Oak Park police said Tuesday.
“The 17-year-old former Oak Park and River Forest High School student, who police and school officials are not identifying because he is a minor, was arrested at his Oak Park home Monday night and was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The charges were levied with cooperation from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and Oak Park police said there will not be any additional charges. The teen is accused of handing out hard copies of the list Jan. 14 at various lunch periods and posting a copy online, according to police.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The teenager is believed to be responsible for a list that ranked 50 female students — using racial slurs and ratings of body parts — that circulated around the school and on Facebook, police said. The teen is accused of handing out hard copies of the list Jan. 14 at various lunch periods and posting a copy online, according to police.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“School officials were mum on disciplinary proceedings, but said the student no longer attends OPRF. In response, teachers and students started a campaign against sexism, selling T-shirts that read 'Respect.'”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now the use of racial slurs is wrong. What I will address is the response by the schools on the issue of gender. So here we go: when a woman publicly ranks men according to the size of their genitals and their performance in bed, the reaction is “you go girl,” and a Feminist regards it as an act of empowerment. But when a man does the same, Feminist teachers organize what they call “a campaign against sexism,” and sell T-Shirts reading “Respect,” which sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that in the social and political context of this day and age, they’re not talking about respecting women; what they’re really talking about respecting is double standards.
Luckily, though, some women are able to see through the bs, as you'll see in the video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the story of Karen Owens broke, a Duke sociologist professor Philip Morgan commented on the story, saying: "It's a girl basically bragging the way boys bragged when the double standard was in full effect. It's a story about sex, and it's a story about gender." But ranking partners according to the size of their genitals is more than just bragging. If the sexes were reversed, sociologist Philip Morgan, as well as others in the academy, would indeed tell us that it is a story about gender – a story of sexual harassment based on gender. It wouldn't be framed as mere “immodesty,” but as sexually predatory behavior. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But how exactly is a male student supposed to know what is objectionable when the definitions are so vague?
A dissenting Feminist professor named Daphne Patai wrote a book called Heterophobia, which speaks at length on sexual harassment in education. In this book she cites the litmus test that is cited by administrators in schools across the West: “Because such behavior is likely to be high risk, if you have to ask [whether it is offensive], it is probably better not to do it” (21).
What is so often lost in the definition of sexual harassment is that there is a difference between behavior that is immodest and behavior that is predatory. Or as Daphne Patai says in her book, “there is a long distance between objecting to the intolerable and demanding the comfortable” (28). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And when we observe the enforcement of sexual harassment policy for what it is – with its extremely broad and vague definitions, and with its “better safe than sorry” approach to behavior most people consider trivial and nonthreatening - it becomes clear that sexual harassment is not really about “harassment” per se (which often involves things like intimidation and coercion), but rather is really about making women as comfortable - which in some cases is to say as pampered - as possible.
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ideology behind sexual harassment comes, of course, from Feminism. The 1998 “Issues Report” by the National Organization for Women, the biggest Feminist lobbying organization in the US, states: “Sexual harassment is a form of violence against women, used to keep women ‘in their place.’” Here we encounter the standard Feminist hysteria where words in and of themselves are equated with physical brutality.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dissenting Feminist Dr. Christina Hoff-Sommers says on page 53 of the War on Boys, “Groups such as the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund have been successfully lobbying the federal government to impose strict harassment codes on the schools. In August 1996, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a 26-page guideline on the subject of ‘peer harassment.’ No age limits were specified. Rooting out schoolyard harassers is now a prime objective of the Department of Education.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">She goes on to say on page 53, “A similar curriculum guide, Girls and Boys Getting Along: Teaching Sexual Harassment Prevention in the Elementary Classroom, was also funded by the Department of Education. This 144-page curriculum includes a special anti-harassment/self-esteem-building pledge for second- and third-graders." She gives us an example:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But do second graders who are made to recite these pledges really know what they are talking about when they talk about sexual behavior? If the lines between offensive and inoffensive are so often indecipherable for an adult, how can we expect boys as young as age 6 to do an equal or better job?
On page 47 of The War on Boys, dissenting Feminist and professor Christina Hoff-Sommers tells us, “Leaders in the equity movement [that is to say, the Feminist movement] take a very dim view of errant boys, speaking with straight faces about schoolyard harassers as tomorrow’s batterers, rapists, and murderers.”
Among others, she quotes Sue Sattel, a self-described “equity specialist” with the Minnesota Department of Education, who says “Serial killers say they started harassing at age 10…they got away with it and went from there.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoff-Sommers goes on to say, “Nan Stein, a director at the Wellesley College Center for research on Women and a major figure in the movement to get anti-harassment programs into the nation’s elementary schools, has referred to little boys who chase girls in the playground and flip their skirts as ‘perpetrators’ committing acts of ‘gendered terrorism.’”
Do we seriously believe that the act of a 9 year-old boy calling his teacher “cute” is a gateway to him becoming a serial killer? If a boy “gets away with” hugging his teacher out of gratitude for breaking up a fight, is he much more likely to commit domestic violence? What about a 6-year-old boy who sings “I’m sexy and I know it?” Is that a good indicator for his proclivity to rape later in life? Somehow I doubt it.
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the best ways to raise our consciousness of sexism against men and boys is to simply reverse the sexes and look at how it comes across. It could also be said that women who lie about rape as adults tended to lie about trivial things as girls, when they learned they could get away with it. Should we then treat little girls who lie about small things as future false rape accusers? Is it really justified to look upon even moderately offensive behavior by girls under such a lens? I don’t think so.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoff-Sommers says on page 50 of The War on Boys: “None of these things would be of much moment if the zealous women promoting these views were not a major force in American education. Schools have to listen to Hanson, Stein, Sattel, and their colleagues to avoid running afoul of complicated federal laws concerning sex equity.”
Whenever parents see 6-year-old boys being punished for sexual harassment, they exclaim, “he’s too young to even know what being sexual is; how can he possibly be guilty of sexual harassment?” They naively think that it is an accident or oversight. But it isn’t. It is the result of a deliberate, concerted, and effort of increasingly radicalized reforms pushed by a few narrow-minded ideologues who have spent so much time cloistered within the ivory tower, and for so long have had no one to challenge their worldview, that they are now disconnected from the real world. It is also a result of the pervasive cowardice of education administrators who are more afraid of political inconvenience than they are driven to doing what is right.
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<span style="font-size: large;">In case you haven’t noticed, I’m going to be a critical of the actions of certain Feminists and Feminist organizations. I will refrain from making many broad generalizations about Feminism, and I will quote the good Feminists who I believe are the exceptions. I’ve already done so here by quoting professors Christina Hoff-Sommers and Daphne Patai.
I would like to stress that the problem is not just a few misandric apples in the Feminist bunch who have achieved positions of influence over education. The problem is also the self-serving cowardice and careerism of administrators and faculty who either enforce these extremist policies against the warnings of their own conscience, or who see others doing so and fail to speak out. <strong><em>The fact remains that no matter how draconian sexual misconduct policies become, administrators still have a choice as to whether they will adopt or enforce them.</em></strong> In his “Letters from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “One has a moral responsibility to obey just laws; conversely, one also has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” There are an abundance of people in education who claim – claim – to uphold the ideals of equality and justice. But when it is our sons against whom unjust policies are directed, all of those champions for equality and social justice are often nowhere to be found. And this holds true, regardless as whether it is a civil rights issue like sexual harassment, </span><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/06/whitmire"><span style="font-size: large;">or whether it is an issue of educational attainment.</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the case of the 6-year-old boy being suspended for singing, The Morning Show spoke of the general culture of education as "too politically correct."
But what is political “correctness” exactly? And if how it is employed so often seems to be wrong, why do we call it “correct” in the first place? In page 57 of The War Against Boys, Dr. Hoff-Sommers quotes the words of a high school teacher named Martin Spafford, who says, “Boys feel continually attacked for who they are. We have created a sense in school that masculinity is something bad. Boys feel blamed for history, and a school culture has grown up which is suspicious and frightened of boys.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">In education, we have swung the pendulum from a time when we had no protection, to the point that we are now overprotective. Policy on sexual harassment, just like policy on domestic violence and rape, is premised upon the idea of protecting women and girls from harm by men and boys. But when these policies become radicalized, we might benefit from an alternative perspective.
In Vancouver, Canada, there is </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBXVpoMlu4"><span style="font-size: large;">a poster campaign</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> that I believe captures the essence of this perspective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You don’t fear and hate African Americans, do you? No, because you are a decent human being. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You don’t fear and hate Jews, do you? Of course not, because you are a decent human being. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You don’t fear and hate gays and lesbians, do you? Of course not, because you are a decent human being. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You don’t fear and hate women do you? No, because you are a decent human being. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whoever controls the language controls the argument. We need a new language and a new word to address this phenomenon. Don’t call it political “correctness.” Call it misandry - sexism against men and boys.
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the most alienating messages that schools send to boys is the idea that they are inherently dangerous and predatory. This is especially true in the area of sexual harassment, our next topic in </span><a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-on-male-students.html"><span style="font-size: large;">The War on Male Students</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. After a few decades of one-sided reforms and increasingly punitive reforms to education policy, schools now face fines, investigations, or lawsuits if female students suffer any kind of discomfort which can be defined under the broad umbrella of harassment. Schools are hypervigilant toward any kind of misbehavior on the part of boys, to the extent that boys who exhibit quasi-offensive behavior (or behavior that would be inoffensive or non-threatening to most people) are being labeled as predatory - labels they inevitably internalize – and being punished for it. I'll give numerous examples.
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<span style="font-size: large;">In North Carolina in 2011, a 9 year-old boy suspended for sexual harassment for telling not the teacher, but a fellow student that he thought his teacher was “cute." Article </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/student-9-years-old-suspended-for-sexual-harassment_n_1129683.html"><span style="font-size: large;">here.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the world first heard of the concept of sexual harassment, they were sold the idea that sexual harassment was defined by exploitation and an abuse of power by employers or fellow employees. But sexual harassment today is not really about employers who require employees to perform sexual favors before they are promoted. It has been broadened far beyond its original and once widely-supported framework, and has moved into criminalizing many forms of trivial behavior that many consider non-threatening.
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<span style="font-size: large;">In another story out of North Carolina, a 14 year-old Middle School student was suspended for hugging teacher. According to </span><a href="http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/04/12/middle-school-student-suspended-for-hugging-teacher/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">this CBS article:</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> “Ryan Blackmon, an eighth grade student at Bladenboro Middle School, was suspended when he hugged his teacher after she broke up a potential fight between himself and another student.”
“I said, ‘Thank you,’ after she got done,” Blackmon told the station. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I went to hug her, then she just snatched me up by the arm and drug me to the other teacher and said that I needed to be written up, and that something serious had happened.” Blackmon’s parents have filed a police report against the teacher and the school after a mark was left on the boy’s arm from where the teacher grabbed him.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I don’t understand how she could feel threatened if I was showing my gratitude, but she could have told me politely to tell me to move away,” he told the station.
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<span style="font-size: large;">And in Denver, Colorado, a 6 year-old boy was suspended for singing “I’m sexy and I know it.” <span id="goog_1350930010"></span>Article </span><a href="http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/05/04/6-year-old-suspended-for-singing-im-sexy-and-i-know-it/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">.<span id="goog_1350930011"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are these boys who are subjected to such heavy-handed treatment more likely or less likely to develop into socially well-adjusted young men? Are they going to be able to carry on their studies in an environment where they are now labeled as predatory? It isn’t just the parents of these suspended kids who should be angry. We should all be angry at how the school system treats our kids. Because if they think it’s ok to treat other kids this way, they’ll think it’s ok to treat our kids this way. And until a group of concerned citizens rises up and campaigns for positive structural change in our school systems, they are going to keep doing it.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another 6 year-old boy suspended for sexual harassment.
Article </span><a href="http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/05/04/6-year-old-suspended-for-singing-im-sexy-and-i-know-it/"><span style="font-size: large;">here.</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> According to USA today, “In BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the meaning of sexual harassment long before he'll be able to spell it. The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband, school officials told his mother, Berthena Dorinvil. The boy told her he only touched the girl's shirt after the girl touched him.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity," said E. Christopher Murray, a civil rights attorney who has handled school discipline cases.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The boy's mother called the Jan. 30 suspension from Downey Elementary School outrageous. She said she can't even explain to her son what he did wrong because he's too young to understand. ‘He doesn't know those things,’ she told The Enterprise of Brockton. ‘He's only 6 years old.’”
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<span style="font-size: large;">And what of the accusation that the girl first touched him? If schools are so committed to investigating and rooting out sexual harassment, why do we not hear the results of this part of the “investigation? Of course, I use the word “investigation” loosely, assuming schools are actually objectively searching for facts, rather than going with whatever stories are the most expedient.
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<span style="font-size: large;">"District spokeswoman Jane Martin said the policy was clear, sayin ‘A 6-year-old kissing another 6-year-old is inappropriate behavior. Unwelcome is unwelcome at any age.” A teacher who saw the incident reported it to the principal, who decided the first-grader should be punished. Johnathan missed out on coloring and playing with friends. He also missed an ice-cream party honoring pupils with good attendance.” His mother said, ‘This makes children wonder, ‘Should I hug somebody? It’s no wonder we have all these people with behavior problems.'”
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<span style="font-size: large;">I agree, with a slight correction: it’s no wonder we have all these <em>boys</em> with behavior problems. I followed up a bit on Johnathan Prevette. When searching for his name under Google images, it turned up a link to his mother Jackie’s Myspace page, which contained </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/pervtastic"><span style="font-size: large;">a link to Johnathan’s own page</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. The case happened in 1996. He is now 22 years old, and on MySpace he goes by the name J-Perv. It would appear that he has indeed internalized the label of a sexual predator publicly imposed upon him by the school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In page 54 of War on Boys, a dissenting Feminist professor named Christina Hoff-Sommers cites two stories where boys are accused of sexual harassment: “A mother in Worcester, Massachusetts, who came to pick up her son was told he had been reprimanded and made to sit in the ‘time out chair’ for having hugged another child. ‘He's a toucher,’ she was told. ‘We are not going to put up with it.’ That little boy was three years old.
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone is familiar with the National Gallery of Art, they know that visitors will inevitably come across a painting of a nude or semi-nude figure. Consider the Renaissance artist Titian, who is known for his famous painting “Sacred and Profane Love,” which presents us with two women at a well, one dressed in fine clothing, the other mostly naked. The viewer is left to inquire: which one is sacred, and which one profane? Some may be tempted to say that the naked woman is profane; that she is dressed in a provocative and wanton manner, unrefined by the principles of our finer society, as is the well-dressed woman. Others may say that the naked woman is the embodiment of sacred love; for the reason that true beauty is not a form camouflaged by the at best imperfect accoutrements of humankind, but one drawn by the timeless and almighty hand of nature, or of God.
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<span style="font-size: large;">If Titian had been a schoolboy today, he would have been told that the underlying moral, philosophical and spiritual themes in his work are irrelevant; that it does not matter how he intended his work, and all that matters is how it is received. And in our school system there exists no shortage of people who choose or are trained to see pathology among men and boys where it does not exist either because it validates their social and political worldview.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now here’s one where I do believe what the boys did was wrong, and that it deserves punishment. But their receiving punishment in and of itself is not what I will address here.
According to </span><a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/9193247.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Komo news</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">: “MCMINNVILLE, Ore. - Two 13-year-old boys facing sexual harassment charges in a case that has drawn national attention will go to trial, a judge decided on Wednesday. The boys are accused of spanking girls' bottoms and poking at their breasts at Patton Middle School.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I do believe that these boys should have been disciplined in some form, because I view what they did was wrong. And after reviewing a lot of the coverage and seeing them on video, I think it quite possible that at the time of the offense, they were being little punks. What I and many others do not agree with was the degree of the charges which district attorney Bradley Berry brought before the court. As Susan Goldsmith reports in </span><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870788/posts"><span style="font-size: large;">The Oregonian</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, “Berry said he was inundated with calls and e-mails from readers who complained that charging the boys with 10 counts of sex abuse and harassment was an overreaction, as their parents maintain. Lawyers for the boys say each count could bring a year in confinement and mandatory registration as sex offenders.”
“The boys' families said they were furious…’It makes us angry that they can overcharge and make us think this could happen,’ said Tracie Mashburn, Cory's mother.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, this is often how the justice system works works. Prosecutors don’t bring charges based on what they think is morally right or wrong; they bring charges based on what they think they can get away with. If there is a lot of public hysteria about a given issue, such as sex abuse, they can often get away with a lot. But this time they didn’t get so lucky.
But there’s more to this case than just the overcharging of two 13 year-old boys. Buried at the end of </span><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870788/posts"><span style="font-size: large;">the archived news article by Susan Goldsmith</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, she, “Confidential court records and police reports obtained by The Oregonian showed that other Patton students - boys and girls - were also slapping bottoms. Two female victims later recanted, saying they were friends of the boys and felt pressured to make false statements against them.”
ABC news reports the same </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3406214&page=1#.UCSbwvnhdbo"><span style="font-size: large;">here:</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> “But police reports filed with the court said other students, both boys and girls, slapped each other on the bottom. ‘It's like a handshake we do,’ one girl said, according to the police report.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are so many questions about this case that no one covering it seems to be asking. If slapping someone on the rear is felony sexual assault, why were the girls not arrested also? Why weren’t they charged with felony offenses, and threatened to be forced to register as sex offenders? If what the boys did was such a serious offense, why did the school not also regard the false accusations of those crimes as serious offenses? Why were the girls who made false accusations of felony offenses not arrested for potentially ruining the lives of the young men? Who pressured the young girls to make false accusations against the boys? Was it a teacher? Was it an administrator? If they are false accusers as the article says, why does the media still refer to them as victims?
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<span style="font-size: large;">In another case, a 14 year-old boy with down syndrome is suspended for sexual harassment for hugging a bus driver. Article </span><a href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/291554/3/Aleczander-Fujimoto-suspended-from-Central-Middle-School-for-sexual-harassment"><span style="font-size: large;">here.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know, I shouldn’t even have to argue whether this is wrong. I hope we all can see that it is wrong without me having to make a case. I truly believe that for me to argue whether this is wrong would be to give the actions by these school administrations more legitimacy than they actually deserve.
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<span style="font-size: large;">But more importantly, why is it wrong, and what should change? It is wrong because it does not take into account the mental state of the person accused. As we all know, when it comes to sexual harassment, it doesn’t matter what your intent of the person accused is; all that matters is what the accuser “feels.” In the vast majority of crimes, prosecutors are required to prove two things: one is mens rea, which is Latin for a “guilty mind,” which refers to a state of mental culpability, and often described as “motive.” The other is an actus reus, which is Latin for a “guilty act.”
So for example: let’s say someone forgets their suitcase at the luggage station at an airport, and you, being a good Samaritan, pick it up to deliver it to them. If we did not take into account your mental state at the time you picked up the suitcase, which we could likely verified by your actions before and after you picked it up, you could be guilty of stealing their suitcase – especially if we left it up to someone’s feelings, rather than the weighing the objective facts of the matter.
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<span style="font-size: large;">We need to change our perspective on sexual harassment. We need to understand that while everyone has a responsibility to not act or speak in inappropriate ways that may cause offense, we all also have a responsibility to not place inappropriate constructions upon the words and actions of those others, and to avoid to deliberate choice to read sexual content into the words and actions of others where no such content exists.
When we eliminate consideration of the mental state of the person accused, it turns justice on its head and short-circuits the rights of the accused. That is now exactly what is happening in a great many cases of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment, which long ago was narrowly defined, now encompasses a wide variety of behaviors. </span><br />
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College men ages of 18-24 commit suicide at six times the rate of women. Sources <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf">here </a>and <a href="http://www.afsp.org/files/College_Film//factsheets.pdf">here</a>.</span></div>
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with ADHD and 80% of those put on Ritalin (lower ed). Sources <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_250.pdf">here </a>and <a href="http://crr.math.arizona.edu/GenderKeynote.pdf">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Are 75% of students diagnosed with
learning disabilities. Source <a href="http://www.nccrest.org/Exemplars/Disporportionality_Truth_In_Labeling.pdf">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Are 33% more likely than girls to
drop out of high school. Source: </span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Peg Tyre, “The Trouble with Boys.” Newsweek, January
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the minority of As (lower ed). Source: Dr. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens, The Minds Of Boys:
Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life. San Francisco:
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not like school rose 71% between 1980 and 2001. Source: </span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research,
Monitoring the Future Study, 1980 to 2001. Cited in National Center for
Education Statistics, Trends in Educational Equity of Girls and Women: 2004, p.
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<span style="font-size: large;">When two young men were exonerated after being falsely accused of date rape at Vassar College, the Assistant Dean of Students Catherine Comins said:<span style="color: black;"> </span>"Men who are falsely accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience. They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I
would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of
self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most pervasive civil rights violations in schools today are free speech and due process violations. This is especially true for men and boys accused of sexual misconduct. For examples, see blog posts and videos (below) on <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/april-4th-directive-part-i.html">The April 4th Directive</a> (higher education) and <a href="http://commonmanmedia.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-of-most-alienating-messages-that.html">Sexual Harassment Hysteria in Lower Education</a>.</span><br />
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and universities and the disproportionate influence that these institutions have
on our culture, education is one of the most difficult, yet most important,
areas to advocate equality for men and boys. Thus it beneficial to be aware of
developments in the academic world that work toward this ideal. Before I publish more content on what I call The War on Male
students, I would like to give credit to what I believe to be an
exception to the rule in academia by raising awareness of a team whose
compassion and understanding toward male students as a group has already
positively influenced the discourse on gender equality in public education.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk-iUrPi0eOEHxMbhjIaMl1LnPkpzYeIu_-bQyKwoEsTYqv01XxE3Bwy0wtmXAeCI12XXGw4HjQejWg-xm3tcB_BlD_RNckhJrZQPIjPCyDdTuQbQlnwjuKOEYVyIcb249XWBllHaXUqV/s1600/PM+Logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk-iUrPi0eOEHxMbhjIaMl1LnPkpzYeIu_-bQyKwoEsTYqv01XxE3Bwy0wtmXAeCI12XXGw4HjQejWg-xm3tcB_BlD_RNckhJrZQPIjPCyDdTuQbQlnwjuKOEYVyIcb249XWBllHaXUqV/s200/PM+Logo.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ddce.utexas.edu/projectmales/" target="_blank">Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success)</a> is a new program hosted by UT Austin’s Division of
Diversity and Community Engagement. It is directed by professor Victor Saenz,
whose is increasingly the nationally-recognized “go-to” authority on Latino
male underachievement in education. The approach of the program, which aims to eliminate
the cultural and structural barriers Latino males face in educational
achievement, is twofold: a research team, and a parallel research-based mentoring
program. What follows will largely be a first-hand report of two Project MALES
symposia I attended in June 2011 and May 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I became
aware of Project MALES through a college friend of mine who eventually became a
member of the staff. Through this link I was able to get an insider perspective
on the nature of the group. Those at Project MALES are not Men’s Rights Activists.
They do not paint broad ideological pronouncements across the canvas of
historical human interaction, for example, by advocating the perspective that
both sexes were historically privileged and disadvantaged, each in different
ways. Nor are they NAACP activists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is
well-known among men’s advocates that society’s neglect of men’s issues usually
(though not always) tends to more sorely affect men and boys of color, whether
it is <a href="http://ddce.utexas.edu/projectmales/" target="_blank">false rape accusations</a>, job-related injuries and deaths, <a href="http://allotherpersons.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/factoid-black-male-incarceration-rate-is-6-times-greater-than-rate-for-white-males/" target="_blank">the sentencing disparity between the sexes</a>, or <a href="https://webspace.utexas.edu/luc11/AAA%20UTSA%20PM%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">underachievement in education</a>. And yet, as we have seen in
the ideology of the <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-lies-feminism/a-slight-problem-for-the-opposition/" target="_blank">American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA)</a> and the <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-lies-feminism/a-slight-problem-for-the-opposition/" target="_blank">National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)</a>, many in academia who claim to support
men – even men of color - are only interested in providing support inasmuch as
it helps solve racial gaps, or in judging males rather than understanding them;
thus gaps due to ignored gender issues persist when other concerns are
ameliorated.</span></div>
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attending the two symposia hosted by Project MALES was like a breath of fresh
air. For while I saw many who did focus on the needs of Latinos as people of
color, it was just as common to hear phrases like “underrepresented males” or “underachieving
males,” and to hear advocacy for Latino males as males. The first symposium,
which over two hundred attended, was primarily devoted to raising awareness of
the issues and establishing a common ground among faculty and academic
officials. Upon signing in, attendees were given folders and handouts which
contained graphs and other data on educational underachievement, classified by
sex and race, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to
the NCES, Latinos are 42% of enrolled Hispanic undergraduates, and 39% of Hispanics
who earn degrees (73% of Latino students graduate from high school, compared to
77% of Latinas. In addition, “In 2008, among all races, Hispanic students from
16- to 24-year-olds had the highest high school dropout rate (19.9% males,
16.7% females).” The educational underachievement of Latinos is also of
economic concern to the general populace, given that, according to the 2010
Census Bureau, “Over the last decade Hispanics have accounted for most of the
nation’s growth – 56%.” These statistics were later displayed on a large screen
in UT Austin’s Union Ballroom and interpreted by the passionate Luis Ponjuan.
As he was mentioning how achievement gaps contribute to the socioeconomic
stratification of various demographics, I noticed he took time to stress that this
was a problem “among all races of men - including Black men, Hispanic men, and
even White men.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Professor
Saenz set the tone of the event when he took the mic. While applauding the work
done for women and girls over the past decades in education, he also addressed
anti-male attitudes that had become prevalent in academia, including the belief
that any concern for the needs of male students, no matter how justified, would
somehow unjustly take away legitimate gains for females. “I believe there is
room in the discourse to address the needs of both sexes,” he said. “It is not
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Rincon later spoke to the audience to represent his affiliate group,<a href="http://fathersactive.com/" target="_blank"> Fathers Active in Communities and Education (FACE)</a>, which advocates the greater
presence of male role models in lower education, where they are most strikingly
absent. Being more involved in <a href="http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/" target="_blank">Fathers’ Rights</a> in 2011, I was hoping to see
some sort of acknowledgment of the concerns of the movement. Perhaps FACE would
advocate for more government assistance for non-custodial parents, who are
overwhelmingly male? Perhaps they would raise awareness of the barriers
non-custodial parents face in regard to parenting their children? This was not
the case, as FACE primarily works with fathers who are currently active in (i.e.
not yet excluded from) the family. Based on their presented work, however, FACE
has done much to vocalize the idea that male role models – men, in other words
– are every bit as capable of taking on parental roles traditionally held by
women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The keynote
speaker was Shaun Harper, a well-respected and charismatic professor who authored
the National Black Male College Achievement Study, which the symposium program
cites as “the largest-ever empirical study of Black undergraduate men.” I was
unfortunately absent for much of his speech (I confess, I was eating Mexican
food and schmoozing in the dining area just outside the Union Ballroom), but managed
to attend the last portion, during which he declared that given its influence,
academia had a responsibility to work toward ending all forms of prejudice and
oppression, including racism, patriarchy, and (believe it or not) misandry.</span></div>
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was later asked to retire to the adjacent Union Quadrangle room, where we divided
into small groups and brainstormed about effective strategies for addressing
male underachievement. As a volunteer for Project MALES I was asked to be a note
taker for our small group, where I was to ask a set of pre-determined questions
provided by the Project MALES staff. One such
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many young men, but especially minority men, struggle to succeed
in higher education environments. Choose
a segment of the 'education pipeline' (ex: elementary school, high school,
community colleges, four-year colleges). Identify 3-5 key areas where men need
additional support, describe 3-5 initiatives that could help men succeed in
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Your district has decided to create an all-male high
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What would this program look like?
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incarceration, particularly the imprisonment of Latino and Black men, is a
critical issue in America. Do you
agree/disagree, and why? What do you
think contributes to this high incarceration rate and what can schools,
communities, and businesses do to decrease the number of young Latino men who
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 2012
symposium was held at UT Austin’s Alumni Center. Since last year, Project MALES
had conducted research and interviews at numerous colleges and high schools and
presented their findings at conferences around the U.S. It also seemed their volunteers
had doubled in number. At this symposium attendees
were given twice the length of time between registration and the start of the
event to schmooze, and I took as much advantage of that as I could. It
was now that I became aware of their partnership with <a href="http://www.cisaustin.org/page-xy-zone.cfm" target="_blank">XY-Zone</a>, a mentoring
program that promotes “job readiness services, support groups, mentors and
community service projects” for male students regardless of race, and advocates
a curriculum suited particularly for boys which incorporates differentiated
learning styles based on gender.</span></div>
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Bachicha, who surprised me by lending me a copy of the XY curriculum and letting
me read it during the event. Due to a confidentiality agreement I cannot give
extensive details on its contents, but I can safely say it contained numerous
open-ended questions that allowed male students to explore their own ideas
about masculinity. While the possibility exists for an individual instructor to
adopt an Men’s Studies approach by answering these questions for students by
framing masculinity in negative terms, there did not seem to be any bias in
that direction in the curriculum itself.</span></div>
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with Janie Mendoza from <a href="http://www.capitalidea.org/" target="_blank">Capital Idea</a>, an organization that delivers financial
support for low-income adults seeking associates degrees, many of whom are people
of color. “We have problems recruiting males,” she said. “They start classes,
and then boom - someone offers them a $12 an hour job, and they’re gone. And
then they’re back after 6-7 months when that job dries up. They feel like they
can’t take the time to invest in a career. I think it’s an ‘I have to provide
for my family right now’ mentality.” She spoke that this was more common among
men, given that they are expected to be the primary breadwinners, and that a
proud, go-it-alone subculture of machismo also deterred young men from asking
for help or developing the necessary support networks to succeed academically. </span></div>
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event began, Professor Saenz spoke again on the need for compassion for male
students, and reiterated that gender advocacy was not a zero-sum game. But this
time Professor Saenz brought down the
rhetorical hammer, indicting the academic establishment for knowing about the
problems faced by young men in education but failing to act. “I do not believe
that indictment is too strong a word, and I do not use that word lightly,” he
said. “What we are ultimately doing is diverting young men from paths of
success. Not enough of us are doing the work of researching this issue.” Equally
damning was research coordinator Sarah Rodriguez’s presentation, which
contained quotations from interviews of students, teachers and administrators
in schools around Texas. One administrator, when asked about the educational
crisis among Latino males in education, was quoted as saying, “We don’t
acknowledge it because to acknowledge something means that you have to do
something about it.” She also quoted interviews from Latino students who
reported feeling “out of place,” and cited not only the absence of support
structures within academia, but also the isolating pressures of machismo culture.</span></div>
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speaker Judith Loredo, the Assistant Commissioner for the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board, opened by declaring that <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/UT_DDCE/ut-lms-presentation-by-dr-judith-loredo-thecb" target="_blank">Hispanic educational achievement has not remained proportionate to their demographic growth</a>, and
Texas must develop further initiatives to remain globally competitive
economically due to a projected 62% of jobs requiring some postsecondary
education by 2018. She also commented that while “most Hispanics enroll in
community and technical colleges, more than 50% leave the community college
system with no degree or certificate,” and listed several programs the THECB launched
programs to help Hispanics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Her keynote
address, while compassionate and overflowing with data and advocacy on needed
changes for the well-being of economics and Hispanics, unfortunately addressed
little on the needs of male students, and to my knowledge she mentioned no initiatives
concerning male needs sponsored by the THECB. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why Boys Fail,</i></span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard Whitmire argues that the rates of U.S. educational achievement look
poor primarily because we are failing males. That gender gap cuts across racial
and class lines. This is increasingly understood on a grassroots level, and is
evident in the rhetoric of groups like Project MALES and XY-Zone, but in my
years in academia I have never seen it reflected in any initiatives sponsored
by the upper echelons of academic power, including and especially the
Department of Education. So long as the Boy Crisis in education is left
unaddressed by high-ranking institutions, comprehensive educational progress
will remain elusive.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCQWIO2H30G5U-vWah-gMMtWbHuSnCppBvkoyXpiLaLPFzf-Cleb0UBDst3dznsi3aHgqoCoRaqjfBQX7AYtGYO3oanyLUubI96byU-pSJZstZ-butc8MAa_YfsweuUM2fbI0uhksCr3X/s1600/PM-team-spring-2012.jpg.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCQWIO2H30G5U-vWah-gMMtWbHuSnCppBvkoyXpiLaLPFzf-Cleb0UBDst3dznsi3aHgqoCoRaqjfBQX7AYtGYO3oanyLUubI96byU-pSJZstZ-butc8MAa_YfsweuUM2fbI0uhksCr3X/s320/PM-team-spring-2012.jpg.bmp" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In two short
years Project MALES has made more positive contributions than I could hope to
document here, and they have fought tooth and nail for every inch of turf they have
gained. When I first heard of the group I was concerned for its future. Many a
good-faith attempt to help men and boys has been shut down or marginalized,
while others have been hijacked or perverted from their original courses to
suit political conveniences or misandric prejudices, and subsequently put to
destructive ends. If Project MALES and its partners remain true to their
mission to help male students by continuing to understand the pressures they
face and responding with compassion, they stand a better chance of making not
only local but national change. If anyone in is interested in advocacy for Latinos
in education, and especially if you live in Texas, I encourage you to support Project
MALES. Great minds, and more importantly great hearts, are its driving force. I
wish them all the best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today is the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. When the ship went down, the crew called for women and children to board the lifeboats first. Due to this gender profiling, men died disproportionately in the icy waters. I am honored that the editors at A Voice for Men have published <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/titanic-style-chivalry-my-body-my-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-94312" target="_blank">my article on the subject</a>, which asks the question: why is it offensive for society to say that a woman's place is in the home, but not offensive for it to say that a man's place is in the grave? Thank you, Paul Elam and editors at A Voice for Men!</span><br />
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