…at this case very closely. Ironically, as the Occidental lawsuit was filed, the issue of due process claims finally penetrated the fog of the “rape culture” journalist-activists. None of what…

As “rape culture” activism heats up, reporters are demonstrating a startling credulity on the subject. One case in point is the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s recent investigation of Title IX…

The questionable assumptions of campus “rape culture” activists are finally receiving mainstream attention. In National Review, Heather Mac Donald noted the irony behind campus hearings on sexual assault: The campus…

…wording presumes guilt is a deeply troubling development. Move beyond the wording. All states have rape shield laws, for entirely appropriate reasons. But no state’s rape shield law goes as…

…week, a Witt-like experience occurred at Brown. I recently wrote of the efforts–let by “rape culture” cheerleader Katie Baker–to use the experience of Lena Sclove to crusade against due process…

I’ve written previously about Katie Baker, the new BuzzFeed reporter on the “rape culture” beat, a correspondent for whom due process appears to be an alien concept. But in an…

…be treated as a crime–rather than untrained or poorly trained college officials, or by college investigators subjected to ideological pressure from the “rape culture” bureaucracy. Second, at least based on…

…need to address “rape culture” at Dartmouth. With Gilbert acquitted, the message was a need to address “rape culture” at Dartmouth (and in New Hampshire!). Facts, it appears, don’t matter….

BuzzFeed is uncritically fascinated with “rape culture.” Combine that with Occidental, a college where a male student can be branded a rapist even if his partner says “yes,” and the…

…rage of those who discern a “rape culture” on campus. Duke’s “Campus Culture Initiative” An early sign of an obsession with “rape culture” on campus occurred at Duke during the…

…that our colleges are full of walking wounded–victims/survivors of “the rape culture,” the violent capitalist patriarchy, and traumas that are nearly always inherently political and related to oppression. The trigger-warning…

…“to cover criminal justice and other legal and social issues related to college campuses,” and assisting another reporter in the publication’s “rape culture coverage.” Due process, it seems, be damned….

…Johnson Hostler asserts that acquaintance rape is a “scourge of college life,” with one in five female students becoming a victim of rape or attempted rape. (Her source is the…

…from rape. The article lists a few possible rape-averting interventions: turning on the lights or the music off at parties, spilling a drink on the guy, or perhaps saying to…

…that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society, and in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape.” In other words, American…

…letter, you see, was an object lesson in “what rape culture looks like,” since it expressed “morally repugnant, patriarchal and offensive” views that are “an embodiment of rape culture” itself….

…rape. She reported it to the police as rape.” Meanwhile, the photos and videos–initially taken down after the rape complaint–resurfaced. They appeared to show a fully consensual encounter; the woman…

…argued that, in a “rape culture,” women are justified in viewing every man as a potential rapist, “presumed guilty until proven innocent.” He chastised middle-aged men for perpetuating insidious gender…

The “hookup culture” on college campuses has been a subject of much concern (and, one suspects, prurient interest) in recent years. The first dispatches from this new sexual battlefield, starting…

…A Boozy Decision–Was It Rape? Rape for instance. Party drunkenness is the context out of which college rape charges usually arise. Everyone loses track of how much alcohol is being…

…gap widened in the 2000s.) His Evidence Is Underwhelming Elsewhere in the book, Kimmel makes a related claim promptly contradicted by his own research: that the college “hook-up culture” of…

…was complaining solely about sexual intercourse or rape–could remain unchanged. Despite the mistaken quote, the ThinkProgress interpretation spread to at least one other left-of-center publication. New York, which before the…

…rape rate,” Kimmel invites readers to consider what this says about women in the United States, which “has the highest rate of reported rape in the industrial world–about eighteen times…

…college men “guilty” of rape (and thus ruin their lives, at least in the short run) has only exacerbated this problem. I’m sure that genuine rapes do occasionally occur in…

…between drinking and the party scene, and between alcohol and hookup culture, was impossible to miss.” Less convincingly, she posits a link between the hookup culture and both student theme…

…what he told the Sandusky grand jury) knew of a 1998 investigation into Sandusky for possible child rape. Finally, the report cited an excessive deference to football and football culture…