Will the Rape Hysteria Epidemic Ever End?

So now the latest concerning the rape epidemic that supposedly exists in our academic institutions nationwide. It seems that in order for feminists to continue their otherwise pointless existence and suckle happily off the tit of your hard earned taxpayer, they have determined that a zero tolerance policy is not enough because the fact that there are now so few actual sexual assaults and rapes being reported is proof that the problem is worse than ever. Didn’t I touch on this in another post?

Though the article doesn’t start out by making such a bold claim, it builds up to it by first relating a story about one individual who did not receive justice when she came forward with an allegation, despite the fact that she won her case. The chief complaint I assumed was the fact that she didn’t know about the process of reporting. One has to wonder, why would she think she had to contact a department in the school and not the local police? I mean what if someone broke into her apartment and stole her belongings? Would she know what to do then, or just blame the school for not informing her of what she needs to do next? Why is she insisting that someone still hold her hand despite being a capable adult? Apparently the school did make it obvious during the orientation, something I don’t need to look up to verify because the article strongly hints that these procedures were made known to the student body thanks largely to the Clery Act, as well as the Dear Colleague Letter and other various networks of support, but all that isn’t enough because none of it supersedes law enforcement jurisdiction and cover every area known to man that a college student might tread while attending college, so the vast number of networks of support might go unnoticed. Again why is it the colleges responsibility to handle criminal investigations? Do we think local law enforcement is incapable of tackling crime? How about the fact that every allegation and proceeding that follows not being a matter of immediate public record? Is there no privacy for the accused? Hardly actually, it's just that no one believes that the reports of rape and sexual assault are still in the single digits campus wide.

And then we get to the first point, that the lack of numbers is proof of an epidemic because of… surveys. The number of determined sexual assaults via anonymous surveys is significantly higher than the actual reports, which has led academic feminists and politically motivated politicians to believe that this is proof indicative of an epidemic. This supposedly leads to further problems such as victims believing that they won’t receive justice, or that they won’t even be believed because an investigation might ensue as a result of the report rather than an immediate mob gathering to go an lynch the accused based off of nothing more than a finger point. The problem with surveys however, is extensive, such as people lying or exaggerating (because they aren’t monitored for accuracy), having only people who were victims report (because what’s there to say if it doesn’t apply to you) and then blanketing it on the entire population, asking questions that are loaded (like did you ever has sex when you didn’t fully want to?), or that assume a conclusion without all the necessary details (like did you ever have sex while drinking, or unable to consent? At what point are they unable to consent? Doesn’t say, but its low, too low almost to be seriously considered, and even if they were unable to consent who says they didn’t still want the encounter to happen?) All these issues and more, much more like only asking women the questions while only asking men that indict them as offenders (effectively erasing male victims), make it difficult to take the surveys seriously, especially since it still employed the Koss method, which was proven to be seriously flawed.(You'd have to read them because there is so much to extrapolate that it would create pages of endless problems with the methodology and execution of the survey's, but here are two articles that help explain it more).

So now we still have people making assertions that certain number of women experienced what could be sexual assault, not what is sexual assault, and with a small number of the population no less. So to help grow the numbers, they just assume than anything remotely resembling a case of sexual assault, such as brushing up against someone, or trying to coerce someone (you know like seduction, or game, or wooing) is basically another tally mark that will help inflate the numbers. In addition, once a report is submitted, even if cleared by police, is still counted as if it happened. Then to top everything off, we will just say that the majority of sexual assaults go unreported, and by the way there is no way to verify this statement because hey, it's all unreported.

So now we know despite the shady accounts, flawed survey methodologies, and inflated numbers that we are supposed to infer that an epidemic of rape is happening nationwide. Queue the 1 in 4 statistic.  Is it any wonder some of us remain skeptics?

All this is supposed to be common knowledge at this point, so not the issue of concern then becomes how the cases are handled, and surprise surprise, the students (a three-member panel) elected to officiate over the criminal allegation, are not equipped to handle such a proceeding. Yet they are perfectly qualified to mete out justice to those accused should the accuser be determined to be telling the truth. We need advocacy programs, with trained personnel (female officers only too I guess) able to handle cases and get results. I couldn’t agree more, except my understanding of results does not mean automatic convictions. My understanding also means that due process is not ignored, an thorough investigation is conducted with questions to the accused as well as the accuser, and anything else that doesn’t result in an immediate witch hunt is carefully handled and observed as part of the path to determining a verdict and delivering an appropriate level of justice.

But this is lost in the fact that from the victims perspective, the very notion of an investigation where questions are asked, justice determined, and every other legal proceeding that normally ensues when it comes to allegations and criminal cases, was just appalling and inappropriate. How dare her supposed assailant be allowed a fair trial and an appeal, doesn’t he know that its re-victimizing her just talking about it, like she did in detail with the press? He should have just gotten the chair on nothing more than her word because hey, why would she lie? Seriously, do we really believe that no woman lies about this type of crime? I mean wouldn't that be great to assume that for other crimes too, like suppose I walk into a bank and check my account balance and see that it's not as high as I claim it to be. I then immediately speak with a banker and inform them that my account only shows ten thousand dollars when it should show a hundred thousand dollars, and rather than them say do you have proof, (at which point I get mad at them for daring to demand I prove I didn't have that much yesterday and start crying about being re-victimized by the trauma of having all that hard earned money stolen) they instead immediately transfer ninety thousand dollars to my account no questions asked because hey why would I lie? What possible ulterior motives could I have for not telling the truth? Especially when there is very little chance for reprisal? Its even victim blaming to fight back against a false accusation now too.

So we get to the meat of the argument, that people who are sexually assaulted don’t want to bother with actually doing anything about their situation, they just want to be unconditionally believed and have the world grind to a halt to deal mercilessly with the person they choose to identify as their offender. It has also been deceitfully established that 1 in 4 are victims, and that it's the abject failure of a well established legal system simply because we appeal to emotion and create an environment of fear mongering that attempts to get everyone screaming for some kind of resolve that goes beyond  zero tolerance, hence the final statement “If you are seeing a zero I see that as a red flag. There needs to be a cultural shift that see zero as a bad thing, instead of something to be proud of.” What nonsense, does that even sound sensible?

Tell me something, at what point do we stop with the hysteria and just say, mission accomplished? Is it when this becomes the prevailing attitude of every male who steps foot on a college campus? Or is it perhaps when abstinence becomes the only method of birth control? Or maybe, it's when every male has been incarcerated so as to make sure that there is not even a shred of doubt as to whether or not he could have possibly committed some form of sexual assault? Nah we cannot do that, yet. So in the mean time perhaps it's just doing it to all the men that a woman accuses, immediately and without a seconds hesitation based off of nothing more than an accusation? I want to know, how could we possibly do better than 0 sexual assaults?

Stopping here would be good, but I actually want to point out one more problem with this issue. At what point, do we ever have even an ounce of sympathy for men in this situation? Why is it, that despite the obvious problems they face it's all about the women. Like for example, erasure of male victims of sexual assault, the lack of men able to complete college, much less attend, or courtship? It's always, men unable to go to college, women suffer from lack of men to date; men suffer serious trauma and abuse, women suffering as a result; or what offended me the most, men forced to fight, engage in horrific experiences in war zone, get maimed, mutilated, captured, tortured and die in agony, yet women are the primary victims of this travesty because they know and care about those men.

It never ceases to amaze me the disconnect these people have with reality.