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'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"?
'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.”'
'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.”
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"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.”'
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.
'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:
'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.
'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.
'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.”
'I was arrested on Oct. 3, 2013 after 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot by Wilson Hall. According to the charges, I was accused of felony abduction with intent to defile and felony rape of my ex-girlfriend sometime between March 1 and June 1, 2012 in Fairfax County. At that moment, I faced the harrowing possibility of two life sentences for a crime I did not commit. Once in jail, I received a letter from Dean of Students Allen Groves, from which I learned that, in conjunction with the criminal charges, I was also put on an interim suspension and faced charges through the University Judiciary Committee, even though the University had contact neither with the complainant — who has never been enrolled at U.Va. — nor the Fairfax County police. I also apparently had 48 hours to appeal the interim suspension upon notification of my status, which seemed impossible to do from my jail cell and especially since my bail was not guaranteed.
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A woman who accused a football player recruited by the Alabama Crimson Tide of assaulting her has now recanted and was subsequently charged with filing a false report.
According to AL.com, the accusation led to the arrest Saturday night of Jonathan Taylor, a defensive tackle on charges of domestic violence and assault. She called police Monday to recant her accusation and confirmed she filed a complaint under false pretenses the next day.
She was sent to county jail, but has since posted bond.
'Close to two months ago, Carole Thomas went public with a claim she had been raped in Longueuil back in October 2014.
She told Global News, and other media outlets in Montreal, she was attacked in the back seat of a luxury car on Parc Industriel Street.
What was particular about Thomas’ story is that she said the assault happened about 48 hours before the murder of Jenique Dalcourt, and relatively close to the bike path where the young woman was killed.
In a one-on-one interview with reporter Domenic Fazioli, Thomas also said detectives “ignored” her case.'
'Imagine yourself in an academic setting where somebody makes an offhand remark that male writers tend to be self-centered. With no evidence or argument, this statement is biased and uninformed, but people are entitled to their opinions.
Now further imagine that the same person then says that the first person singular “I” in the writing of male authors is like an erect penis directed at us from every page.
This incident happened the week before spring break in a discussion at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
For most in higher education today, an event like this would hardly be surprising. However, what made the scene difficult to believe is that nobody challenged it: We let it pass as though nothing had happened while a few heads nodded in polite approval.
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