They must have "safe places" to escape the paralyzing "triggers" that come from possible encounter with contrary data and opinion. They must be stroked and resuscitated from their shrieking in fear if they are ever offended in any manner. In short, they are too weak to stand on their own as responsible adults.
Even the mere presence of a debate featuring a speaker who presents contrary data causes emotional hysteria, as this debate at Brown demonstrated:
"Reason contributor Wendy McElroy and liberal feminist Jessica Valenti debated campus sexual assault, rape culture, and due process at Brown University on Tuesday afternoon. The debate preemptively generated student protests, alternative events, and even a statement from Brown President Christina Paxson.Let's see; women drink themselves stupid because all men are rapists and want them to be disabled? And then the women are discredited by their drunken stupor... no wait, it the drunken male who is at fault, always, because all men are rapists, and all PIV sex is rape.
These reactions had one thing in common: disdain for McElroy's perspective that rape is the work of a small number of serial predators, rather than a cultural phenomenon. Paxson lamented that view in her campus-wide email, writing, "I disagree. Although evidence suggests that a relatively small number of individuals perpetrate sexual assault, extensive research shows that culture and values do matter."
McElroy's contrarian perspective on rape was in fact so traumatizing for certain members of the campus that they felt they needed to create alternative events. Some students organized a "BWell Safe Space." According to The Brown Daily Herald:Students who may feel attacked by the viewpoints expressed at the forum or feel the speakers will dismiss their experiences can find a safe space and separate discussion held at the same time in Salomon 203. This “BWell Safe Space” will have sexual assault peer educators, women peer counselors and staff from BWell on hand to provide support.No student should feel the need to be protected from an opinion. But those who sought further insulation from McElroy's perspective were invited to attend another alternative event, which promised "The Research on Rape Culture." Samantha Miller of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explained why this nonsense is insulting to students, as well as the debate participants:
Given the debate organizers’ prior arrangements to provide support to anyone who actually felt the need for it, Paxson’s choice to counterprogram the event makes little sense in terms of “emotional safety.” But it makes all the sense in the world if you assume the real goal is to provide an intellectual cocoon for students—an effort to create a ideological bubble on campus in which students’ beliefs will be free from challenge.
It's a miracle the debate even took place at all, considering how allergic Brown seems to be to constructive discussion of controversial topics, but McElroy and Valenti were able to make their points. McElroy's main argument, according to The Herald:McElroy said rape culture exists in places like parts of Afghanistan where “women are married against their will” and “murdered for men’s honor” but not in North America, where “rape is a crime that’s severely punished.”And Valenti's:
What’s more, those who politicize rape and assert the existence of rape culture imply that all men are guilty or that the accused do not deserve due process, McElroy said.
It is unacceptable that men can now be disciplined for rape through college hearings based on a preponderance of evidence rather than the traditional criminal justice standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. “Let’s not build justice for women on injustice for men,” McElroy said, closing her talk.Valenti never tackled the question of whether a preponderance of evidence or guilt beyond a reasonable doubt should be the standard for conviction of men in college hearings, but she did talk about other aspects of sexual assault as it relates to college campuses, such as the fact that alcohol plays a role in most sexual assault incidents.
“Alcohol is not the problem,” Valenti said, chuckling at the notion. “What we need to discuss is the way rapists use alcohol as a weapon to attack and then discredit their victims.” Rapists benefit from others’ insistence that a victim’s inebriation is to blame for his or her assault, she added.
Both speakers addressed how students might move forward in eliminating rape and sexual assault on campus.
“Stopping someone from telling a rape joke or saying they got ‘raped’ by a test” would be a start, Valenti said, but she also urged students to hold university administrators responsible for addressing rape on campus."
Further, to suggest otherwise is, itself, sexual assault which damages the delicate nature of women just to be on the planet with such a suggestion. Not to mention on the same planet with male humans (aka rapists).
Feminism, it is obvious, makes some weak women feel strong by making other women into psychological basket-cases over trumped up charges against a fantasy foe: masculinity. They are all quite ill.
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Feminist who support no moral boundaries are incensed when through the law of unintended consequences they create of world full of people with no moral boundaries.
They convinced untold millions of females to act against their innate desires to partner with a husband and have children. Filling their heads with Utopian nonsense these girls fall from much loftier heights into the snarling, snapping jaws of realism than did their grandmothers.
Many women want men who are chivalrous, but feel no compunction to live up to their side of that social contract. They can do and say whatever they like and men must bend over backwards to accommodate them in the name of "equality."
Rikalonius said,
"They can do and say whatever they like and men must bend over backwards to accommodate them in the name of "equality."
Yes. And that inverts the concept of equality into dominance/submission.
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