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Some Are More
Equal Than Others
By Kate Burch
It was reported yesterday that Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
warned against “blaming the victim” in the case of the fraternity
brothers falsely accused of rape at UVA. The bogus story of the
rape, written by a gullible Rolling Stone writer, has been completely
discredited, though the magazine is yet to print a retraction.
Now, just who, do you suppose, is the victim in Senator Gillibrand’s
eyes? If you said the young men, their reputations and lives
seriously affected by being falsely accused of a major crime, you would
be wrong. The victim, she says, is this misguided young woman who
was apparently acting out of frustrated romantic yearning.
Gillibrand says that blaming her would discourage actual rape victims
from coming forward. She claims that many young women who are
raped fear engaging with law enforcement because they think that they
will be blamed or that they will not be taken seriously. As to
the suggestion that the young fantasist in question be prosecuted for
the harm she has caused, she answers, “Totally inappropriate.”
The correct response to this regrettable occurrence, she says, is for
colleges and universities to work even harder to combat the “rape
culture” on campus.
This senator is actually a trained lawyer, but she has a record of
accepting allegations of rape as true without a shred of
evidence. There can be no need of due process, I guess, for
young, hormone-crazed and narcissistic males who would as soon rape you
as look at you. These monsters apparently do not deserve equal
protection under the law.
This whole, sick story is a piece of the radical feminist belief system
that males have, throughout history, abused women; that women are
perpetual victims of the “patriarchy.” Some even go so far as to
say that there is no sexual behavior between a man and a woman that
does not qualify as rape, even consensual marital sex. They have
succeeded to a significant degree in a campaign to denigrate males and
masculinity. We see today some of the bitter fruits of this
agenda in boys and young men who are discouraged from or punished for
engaging in typical masculine behaviors. Some collapse, others
react by becoming more aggressive. I would venture that the
greatly lowered, and declining, ratio of males to females in higher
education settings has something to do with the march of radical
feminism.
Some in the social sciences have striven mightily to demonstrate that
gender differences in behavior are strictly culturally determined;
efforts to prove this hypothesis have failed. Males and females
are different, and there is a range of attitudes, behaviors and virtues
typically aligned with each sex (though, of course, with much
overlap.) Neither is superior. We need both for a healthy
society.
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