…address a rape case” involving one of its recruiters. Colleagues have contacted us about a similar situation at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), the flagship public university in Tennessee….
…open borders, alternative energy, renaming buildings and tearing down statues, the 1619 Project, pronoun wars, Soros prosecutors, speech codes, dis-invitations, cancel culture, patriarchy, the fight against trans-exclusionary-radical-feminists, anti-colonialism, micro-aggression fragility,…
…dangerous culture these offices have created. Given the stranglehold DEI offices have on campuses today, I worry about the success of the pluralistic counterweights. DEI offices already refuse to protect…
…consensual sex is rape; or who exposes students to the ideas that white people,men, or Jews are responsible for the problems plaguing the world or that antisemitism is an aid…
…Neanderthal urges that even star chamber–like judicial proceedings cannot prevent date rape and similar misogynistic behavior. Given this messaging, why would Sally even think about accepting Harry’s invitation to the…
…partly by insisting that animals, particularly whales, have as much “culture” and “agency” as humans (pp. 65-66, 68, 97). Degroot then draws on “Indigenous ontologies” to justify the notion of…
…will increase exponentially, particularly on campuses already obsessed with protecting and tending to the emotions of various identity groups as part of academia’s grievance culture. In this culture, implicit bias,…
…I write in America’s Sex Culture, “Teachers can help teenagers and their peers in the development of empathy by allowing students to share their thoughts and allow their experiences with…
…the police every day of his life; that universities have a “rape culture”; that economic success is the result of “white privilege”; that sex is not binary; that all of…
…what the facts were. That is why feminists claim that they have “their own truths.” For example, take the strongly held feminist belief in an imaginary “rape culture,” a belief…
…A Scientific Theory of Culture, and Essays in the Science of Culture. It is true that, in practice, cultural anthropology was more a craft than a science, but the aspiration…
…the postcolonial narrative of the West as the great villain of history. Did you know that Canadian culture is a “rape culture”? This is what university students are taught by…
…of Culture and Clifford Geertz in The Interpretation of Cultures emphasize, there is no general human culture, just many individual cultures, each historically and geographically distinct. And as Emile Durkheim…
…children are taught, and that are rewarded, while deviation from them leads to punishment. We have a reading culture, a safe driving culture, a hard-work culture. Rape is not taught,…
…existence of rape culture and systemic racism. Despite their editorial nature, Salzman’s opinions are presented as though they are objective facts. Meanwhile, his affiliation with McGill lends him credibility that…
…culture is: culture is a set of conventional beliefs, values, and practices. To say that we have a “rape culture” would mean that we believe rape to be a good…
…is the founding institution of America and the center of everything important in our history is a ground-breaking claim, of the same type as claims that America condones rape culture,…
…speech is no longer sacred among young journalists who have absorbed the campus lessons about “hate speech”—defined more and more broadly—and they’re breaking long-standing taboos as they bring “cancel culture”…
…culture dominated by white folks?” A more pertinent question would be: What does any of this have to do with legal training? Living in a Western culture dominated by whites…
…inability to fathom Fourth Wave Feminists who declare themselves afraid to attend college or seek “lean-in” type jobs (oh the rape culture!) and her schism with Social Justice Warriors whose…
…Cultural Texts” “Gender and Sexuality in the Neo-slave Narrative” “Introduction to African American Literature” “Blackness and Visual Expression” “Black Women in African American Literature and Culture” “Staging Race and Gender”…
…equality and fairness. The feminist view of American culture ignored its basic values of freedom, equality, and democracy, claiming that American culture was a “rape culture.” Nor was American society…
…[Interview Undercuts ‘Rape Culture’ on Campus] At virtually any other point between the 1950s and 2011, someone best known for eviscerating the rights of the accused would be seen as…
…after a sexual encounter to equate regret with rape. Another way they increase the appearance of rape is label as “rape” any sexual encounter not totally satisfactory, even among ongoing…
…men are taught to rape, encouraged to rape, and rewarded for raping. The idea of “rape culture” is necessary for feminists because they say that all identities and actions are…
…example (as we read in this Inside Higher Ed story), she has criticized women students who file rape charges long after the incident, saying that when women bring complaints that…
…pervasive (if imaginary) “rape culture” may not be questioned. And we are forbidden to discuss the many cases of false rape accusations. Rather, we must “believe women.” It is forbidden…
…mandate live hearings with cross-examination, with questions asked by lawyers or advocates for the students, in all sexual misconduct cases. [The Campus Rape Culture That Never Was] After several technical…
…campus, and the “culture” of sexual violence, or “rape culture,” on campus and in the wider society. The facts are highly contested. The incidence of rape and sexual assault on…
…that rape is about power, not sex, was readily accepted and soon became an unquestioned orthodoxy—unhelpful in understanding or preventing rape–and the definition of rape and sexual assault continuously broadened….