Friday, June 26, 2015

Keep pants zipped, and maintain a distance of 150 feet from the opposite sex... and wear a body cam at all times.

Is anything happening on American campuses besides policing microaggressions and sexual posturing?
Sex At New York’s Colleges Is Screwed

"Given the experience of politicians with sexcapades, one might hope they would be a little more circumspect in their embrace of the flavor of the month redefinitions of what constitutes a sexual assault for college students. After all, had that been the rule when they went to Fordham, there’s a good chance they would be digging ditches today.

But no. Neither New York’s leaderless Assembly nor Senate had the guts to say no means no, and gave in to Governor Andy Cuomo’s gift to his daughters. From the New York Times:
New York’s political leaders have reached a deal on one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s legislative priorities for 2015, saying they will adopt new laws intended to change the way sexual assaults on all college campuses in the state are handled.

The agreement, announced on Tuesday, proposes legislation that would establish a statewide definition of “affirmative consent,” and define consent as a “knowing, voluntary and mutual decision among all participants to engage in sexual activity.”
Which means . . . what?
This does not mean students will need to enter into a written contract before every sexual encounter; it is meant to reorient students in terms of how they approach sex, said Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chairwoman of the Higher Education Committee.
Okay, so it doesn’t mean more work for Legal Zoom, but what does it mean?
“It’s a question of putting everyone on notice that they have to be in a consensual situation,” Ms. Glick said. “It also sends a message to the institutions that they have to up their game on how sexual assault on campus is viewed and treated.”
So what you’re saying is, you have no clue what it means either. Great. So students will be accused, go through the pretense of a hearing where guilt is presumed, due process is denied, and males are expelled from college (no refund?), permanently tainted, lives ruined, based upon meaningless rhetoric? Well, yes. That’s what it means."
This is a perfect example of a law with no means of objective measurement for compliance/noncompliance, but one which will undoubtedly be used for persecution in the future. It is purely based on "feelies", and we know who will judge the feelies in any such situation. (Hint: it won't be lawful authorities).

The Left is returning campuses to the principle of abstinence by default. The Leftist moral policing is much more severe than the segregated dorms of thirty years ago.

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