…accused, and refused to retract his false assertion when the Education Department’s press secretary pointed out his error. [Interview Undercuts ‘Rape Culture’ on Campus] Multiple Democratic legislators suggested that due…
…argument—common among accusers’ rights organizations—about the prevalence of a campus “rape culture” necessitating accuser-friendly procedures. If the movement would be non-existent but for cases involving athletes at Power Five conferences…
…“rape culture”; in our society rape is viewed as a heinous crime, and the penalties for it are severe. Many men, I would say most men, share the impulse to…
…had to choose among courses like, “Women of Color in the U.S., Women and Gender in the Caribbean, Chicana Feminism, Studies in Queer Literatures and Cultures, and Feminist and Queer…
…so no discussion of alleged “facts” is allowed. For example, one may not question the alleged “fact” that we Canadians live in a “rape culture.” And one may not question…
…one culture cannot judge what happens in another culture. In this view, no criteria may be applied from one culture to assess other cultures; above all, no judgments may be…
…faithful Christian and Catholic universities under attack from alumni who want these institutions to change with the changing culture. No longer a “community of memory,” a small number of disgruntled…
…week two men, convicted of rape in Central Park in 1992, have just been cleared — the woman admitted she had made the story up. VanDyke Perry served nearly 12…
…look or “elevator eyes,” to a leer, a phrase, a joke, an invitation, a touch, a grab, and even rape. In fact, sexual assault and rape have both been against…
…one deceased—have now been accused of rape. And, in even more alarming allegations, renowned professor Tariq Ramadan, a scholar of Islam at Oxford University, has been accused of rape by…
…men to publicly confess and “take responsibility for their role in rape culture, complicit or otherwise,” portraying any man who has ever questioned the accuracy of a claim of harassment…
…appears to be rare. Related: The Washington Post Joins the Rape Culture Crusade Why then have feminists focused on the college campus as the center of “rape culture?” Because the…
…the university handled her rape accusation against a fellow student would seem outwardly to be engaged in a completely individualized spectacle—and one that didn’t touch the freedom of anyone else’s…
…the 30 rape allegations, the sole issue was accommodations for the accuser, not adjudication. That left 11 rape allegations that Stanford investigated. Six of these didn’t go to a hearing….
…Furthermore, “Male power is systemic. Coercive, legitimated, and epistemic, it is the regime.” Therefore, MacKinnon notes, “a rape is not an isolated event or moral transgression or individual interchange gone…
…worth considering. Culture of Due Process Before the speech, an astute observer of campus sexual assault predicted to me that the DeVos address would function as a Rorschach test, and…
…Jim Crow South and the broader culture of racism. Recognizing the history of American racism without succumbing to the temptation to read racism into the fabric of everything seems to…
…think the same impulses are persisting now, but without pornography. I think most students—that I encounter, anyway—think that porn is benign, but this issue of campus rape culture is having…
…rape.” Monica Lewinsky said she felt emotionally raped by Kenneth Starr. Symbolic and low-tech gang rape. Feminist Catherine Stimpson’s term for Anita Hill’s treatment by the Senate Judiciary Committee. A…
…Statistics has revealed that the rate of rape and other sexual assault on college campuses has actually declined from 9.2 per 1,000 college students in 1997 to 4.4 per 1,000…
…are bound to continue to alienate young men from a culture of achievement—one of the academy’s and the culture’s biggest diversity problem–men who don’t work. Punishing private communications as if…
…feminists, who, while promoting lesbianism, believed profoundly that male/female differences existed and, indeed, explained much about the horrors of life: wars, violence, “rape culture,” ceaseless sexual harassment, pornography, environmental degradation,…
…to claims of rape. Harvard canceled the men’s soccer team season because team members sent emails to each other rating women on their physical attractiveness. Columbia University followed suit by…
…others identify the forces behind “rape culture,” including the objectification of women in the media and glorification of “hyper-masculinity.” Similarly, my colleagues who study terrorism identify socio-political conditions, such as…
…band of arguments: according to Rolling Stone and former reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, our nation’s campuses are teeming with sexual assaults, beset by a “rape culture,” and the UVA administration…
…Joins the Rape Culture Crusade Gittos examines the claims that rape is underreported, and that women do not report rapes because they are cynical, intimidated, ignorant of process or even…
…a changing culture surrounding the role of women, fueling the belief that Satan was operating in Salem by endowing witches with demonic power to act against the Puritans. It is…
…Sommers spoke at Brown, arguing that “Rape Culture”—systemic social and political support for rape—does not exist, Paxson scheduled or (allowed the scheduling of) a feminist rape lecture at the exact…
…has spent much of his career reporting on the vicissitudes of campus political correctness, many of them recorded in his latest book, “Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture.” The…
…Related: Georgetown’s Survey Stokes the Rape Panic At the heart of this campaign is a belief—sincerely held in some instances—that college and university campuses are beset by a “rape culture,”…