Article here. Excerpt:

'We therefore know that (a) Jackie is a liar, (b) feminist claims of a campus “rape epidemic” are false, and (c) Rolling Stone was willing to publish a libelous article based on Jackie’s lies in order to “prove” that there is what the Associated Press called “a hidden culture of sexual violence” at one of our nation’s leading public universities.

Lies, lies, all lies, a baseless fiction from start to finish.

What has actually been exposed is an “epidemic” that few members of the media are willing to acknowledge, namely the pervasive liberal bias that has crippled and discredited the profession of journalism in America, turning reporters and editors into political hacks who are willing to publish fiction if this is what is necessary to advance the agenda of the Democratic Party. It is certainly no secret that claims of a Republican “war on women” helped Barack Obama win re-election in 2012, nor is it a secret that Hillary Clinton is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The editors at Rolling Stone have largely laid the blame at the feet of “Jackie,” the UVA student whose allegations of a brutal gang rape at a fraternity house formed the central narrative of Erdely’s story.

Back in December, in the magazine’s first public statement distancing itself from Erdely’s reporting, managing editor Will Dana wrote that “we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced.” Sean Woods, who personally edited the story, takes a similar tact in the magazine’s report of its decision to retract Erdely’s article. “Ultimately, we were too deferential to our rape victim. We honored too many of her requests in our reporting. We should have been much tougher,” Woods said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The attention the Rolling Stone article generated has caused some concern among victim advocates.

"Going to the media is not at all easy for victims.... It's not at all something to take lightly," said Sharmili Majmudar, executive director of Rape Victim Advocates, a Chicago-based nonprofit that assists sex assault victims. "There can be fallout when speaking out and this incident has magnified just that."

Majmudar said she is concerned about Jackie -- whose identity was not in the Columbia report -- and women who are in similar situations down the road.

"Sexual violence is something that's real and happens often on college campuses. Survivors must be protected and feel that they can speak out," Majmudar said. "I just, again, fear that the fallout from this could affect future survivors from telling their stories."

Sheila Coronel, a dean of academic affairs at Columbia University, emphasized in comments Monday that the alleged victim is not at all to be blamed.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said early Monday morning that because of the magazine's strong reputation, the incident has actually pushed the conversation around rape on college campuses "to the forefront."

What seemed to really stun some readers and media critics was that no staff members were fired as a result of the disaster.

NBC's Willie Geist said on "Morning Joe" that it was "jaw-dropping" that writer Erdely is keeping her job.

CNN's Brian Stelter touched on that very point in a post on Monday headlined "No one fired at Rolling Stone. Really?"'

"The report certainly is embarrassing," he wrote. "But what some might call ineptitude on the part of Rolling Stone, others might call a show of loyalty and a second chance for the staff."

Story here. Excerpt:

'The University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi announced Monday that the fraternity house will file a lawsuit against Rolling Stone, calling the magazine’s reporting that described an alleged gang-rape by some of its members “reckless.”

The lawsuit comes a day after Rolling Stone editors retracted a Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus,” that portrayed the chilling account of brutal sexual assault allegedly occurring in the Phi Kappa Psi house at U-Va. in 2012. A Columbia University report issued Sunday described significant lapses by the magazine’s staff while reporting the gang-rape allegations and the story’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and the publication’s managing editor, Will Dana, apologized for the deeply flawed account. But the fraternity noted that Erdely did not apologize directly to the Phi Psi chapter at U-Va.'

This is a personal story that I wanted to share with the readers on this forum.

I'll start with the bad news: In February, my dad passed away. In March, my mom passed away. I have to be frank: those were both tough losses for me. I loved them both and am still grieving their loss.

This video was created to show the analogous situation between discriminating against people due to skin color and doing likewise based on sexual orientation when deciding whether or not to sell services to them. It struck me, upon seeing it, that the trend in women-only spaces creation and scheduling of otherwise public services and/or spaces also seems to fit. Watch this video, first imagining that the discriminated-against man in the video is a man known instead to be gay and he is being told to leave for that reason. Next, imagine the cafe to be owned and occupied exclusively by women and the owner telling the man he has to leave because men are not served therein due to deeply-held feminist beliefs, or that other customers paid for the females-only space, or whatever. Still don't think the occasional women-only hotel floor or restaurant or subway car is "so bad"?

Story here. Excerpt:

'Rolling Stone magazine retracted its article about a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the release of a report on Sunday that concluded the widely discredited piece was the result of failures at every stage of the process.

The report, published by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and commissioned by Rolling Stone, said the magazine failed to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify details of the ordeal that the magazine’s source, identified only as Jackie, described to the article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

On Sunday, Ms. Erdely, in her first extensive comments since the article was cast into doubt, apologized to Rolling Stone’s readers, her colleagues and “any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'During the height of President Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky scandal, a White House maid entered the bedroom to clean and was shocked to find the president and first lady’s bed covered in blood.

The blood belonged to the president, who said publicly that he “hurt himself running into the bathroom door in the middle of the night.”

But the White House resident staff believed differently. As one worker told author Kate Anderson Brower, “We’re pretty sure [Hillary Clinton] clocked him with a book.”
...
"The couple sometimes got into pitched battles, shocking the staff with their vicious cursing, and sometimes they went through periods of stoney silence,” writes Brower.

Florist Ronn Payne recalls seeing two butlers listening through the door at a “vicious” argument in the West Sitting Hall.

“All of a sudden, he heard the first lady bellow, ‘goddamn bastard!’ at the president — and then he heard someone throw a heavy object across the room. The rumor among the staff was that she threw a lamp.”'

New page added under the "Main Menu" entitled Advice For College Students Seeking To Stop Campus Misandry. I thought after fielding an inquiry about this topic recently via email that creating a "Main Menu" entry on it was a good idea.

Only fighting feminists on campus is going to get on-campus feminism to start contracting. Eventually it takes boots on the ground to secure victory. As long as no one even tries on a pair of boots on our college campuses, sooner rather than later they will become the sort of "man-free zones" so many feminists happily dream of every night.

Encouraging male college students to get busy against campus feminism is nothing but good and necessary to stopping it.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Beverly Mary Abraham, Grace Jessie West and Daniel Morice: let their names stand as stark evidence of the kid-glove treatment so often given the modern accuser.

In 2013, these three aboriginal people filed civil lawsuits against the former Vancouver Olympics boss John Furlong, alleging, in the most lurid detail, how he had sexually and physically abused them while they were students at Immaculata Elementary school in Burns Lake, B.C., and he was a young volunteer teacher.

Letter here. The response is typical of most people's to the matter. It's this kind of reaction that allows so many women to feel it's all well and good to engage in fraud and subterfuge around this topic. Letting "Dear Prudie" know how you feel about her response at prudence@slate.com may do some good. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'The practice of circumcision has been so normalized in our society that we forget that the above statement is factually sound: we are allowing the systematic mutilation of the genitals of almost half of our population. If this is true, then why does America circumcise over 80% of its penis-slinging population while other developed countries, including those in western Europe and East Asia only circumcise approximately 20% of males?

America’s high circumcision rate is generally attributed to hysteria surrounding the practice. John Harvey Kellogg (maker of Kellogg’s cornflakes), who believed it would prevent boys from masturbating, succeeded in popularizing it in the early 20th century. Doctors in this era also believed it helped prevent syphilis, which has since been disproven, according to the National Institutes of Health. Because of this misinformed belief, circumcision became compulsory in the military during both world wars. Once such a high proportion of the population was circumcised, fathers would generally have their infants circumcised simply because they had been circumcised as well, causing a steady circumcision rate throughout the 1900s.

Article here. Excerpt:

'There was a time when rape and sexual assault were considered some of the most abhorrent crimes imaginable. No more.

Now, at least on college campuses, rape and sexual assault are considered mere disciplinary matters, no different than plagiarism or theft from a dorm. To non-college students, they are considered crimes.

You would think the issue was being taken seriously, given the mattress-carrying demonstrations and numerous marches with hand-made signs spouting catchy slogans like "non-consensual sex is rape." But according to the activists, the solution to this problem — this so-called rape culture — is not to send serious crimes to the police, but to campus courts where the worst an accused student can face is expulsion.

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, a national organization working to end campus sexual assault, is calling on producers of The Hunting Ground to remove a rape statistic featured in the movie that is known to be false. The Hunting Ground makes the claim that 20% of college women are sexually assaulted.

Numerous authoritative sources have refuted the 20% number:

1. The U.S. Department of Justice reports a college woman’s risk of sexual assault is under 1% each year.

2. The Washington Post Fact Checker assigned a single Pinocchio to the one-in-five claim.

3. The New York Times Editorial Board described the source of the statistic as “a flawed 2007 study based on undergraduates at just two unnamed public universities.”