Story here. Another woman who never locks her door but tells burglars not to rob her home. Excerpt:

'As I drove slowly around the endless strip malls that line the main drag of my city, I heard it — a public service announcement that seemed meant for me.

"Ultimately you are responsible for your safety in parking lots. Walk deliberately with keys in hand. Carry mace. Don't look at your cell phone. Don't let yourself become a victim. Happy holidays and New Year from the Sheriff's Office."

On its face, it seems like a helpful message, a proactive reminder to stay safe. But I heard something else. I heard, "This year, the police department would like a lot fewer assault and rape charges clogging up our system, ladies."

Article here. Excerpt:

'In 2014, President Obama repeatedly made the statement that “one in five” female students experience sexual assault while in college. But in December, the Department of Justice reported the actual figure is only 2.4%. Nonetheless, the “one in five” claim served to galvanize an upsurge in  legislative debate and campus activism which culminated in the UVA-Rolling Stone debacle.

Activists made other many assertions about campus sexual assault — claims that had no basis in fact. Commentators deplored how these inflammatory statements were used to create a rape “frenzy” and “panic” to force lawmakers and campus administrators to institute flawed policies.

Following are 12 myths about campus sexual assault, followed by the facts:

MYTH: One in Five College Women are Victims of Sexual Assault

In 2013, Kavita Ramdas gave a commencement speech at her undergraduate alma mater.  Her speech is largely a feminist rally, typical of the sorts of addresses given at women's colleges today.  Funny thing is, she ends it with a really good observation of what kind of women the world needs. (Not bad when applied to men, too.)  But reading it, I ask you: Do today's feminists fit her prescription?  Does the following describe Gillibrand, Clinton, McCaskill, and the other rape hysterics and wage gap mythologists of today?  To me, it doesn't.  From the concluding paragraph:

'We need women who are so strong that they can be gentle, so educated that they can be humble, so fierce that they can be compassionate, so passionate that they can be rational, and so disciplined that they can be free. We need uncommon women. ...'

Article here. Excerpt:

'2014 was a watershed year -- it was the year it became apparent to a lot of folks with no personal stake in the issue that gender extremists have gone too far pushing their agendas on sexual assault. There is finally a mainstream backlash against rape culture hysteria. The rape culturalists are still winning, but for the first time, they have prominent opposition.

Rape Culture Hysteria

Before we get to the backlash, it is important to note that the year witnessed an explosion of jaw-dropping "rape culture" hysteria:

Amanda Childress, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator at Dartmouth College, declared that campus policies aren't going far enough to protect students. She asked: "Why could we not expel a student based on an allegation?" Dartmouth defended Childress's comment, noting that she "was asking a question—a provocative one—meant to generate dialogue around complex issues . . . .”

Story here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'2014 saw the rise and fall of a curious statistic whose own authors tried to play down its weight: the claim that one in five women will be victims of sexual assault during their college career.

Much like Doonesbury‘s continued faith in the story of “Jackie” at the University of Virginia, however, the campus progressives at Generation Progress continue to hold out 1-in-5 as unquestionable scripture.

In its year-end wrap-up of liberal successes, the group touted its role in the national conversation on campus sexual assault, including helping the White House launch the It’s On Us awareness campaign:

"On January 22, 2014, the White House announced the Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. In April, the Task Force released their first report, Not Alone, which laid out some startling statistics—one in five women is sexually assaulted in college, 75 to 80 percent of survivors know their attacker, and most often, they do not report the crime."

The group also celebrates California’s new affirmative-consent law for college campuses and its implication that drunk sex is by definition rape. But let’s go back to that 1-in-5 statistic.

Generation Progress may be one of the few organizations still refusing to acknowledge the stat, from a Justice Department report, is full of caveats – it’s based on a 2007 Web-based survey of two large public universities and had a low response rate, to say nothing of how it worded questions.

Article here. Excerpt:

'It was undoubtedly a year of heightened paranoia about rape on college campuses, with everyone from Lena Dunham to President Obama demanding immediate action to curtail a purported epidemic of sexual violence. But due to a string of embarrassments, 2014 ended on surprisingly sour note for illiberal activists conspiring to shunt aside due process in their zeal to eradicate an exaggerated and politicized problem.

Still, while the voices of reason—of fairness for accusers and the accused—scored some ideological victories this year, 2015 will likely present even more daunting challenges. Dark clouds loom on the horizon, according to several legal experts who are advocates for campus due process or involved in rape disputes. In particular, a wave of wrongheaded affirmative consent policies—which force students to adopt bizarre and limiting sexual consent customs—could sweep the nation.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Harvard University has agreed to make changes to its sexual assault policies and review some cases after an investigation found its law school had handled victim complaints poorly, the U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday.

The agreement with the Ivy League school is part of the Obama administration's push to curb sexual violence in U.S. colleges and coax schools to get tougher in handling cases.

The Education Department's Office of Civil Rights found that Harvard Law School had failed to appropriately respond to two student complaints of sexual assault.

"In one instance, the Law School took over a year to make its final determination and the complainant was not allowed to participate in this extended appeal process, which ultimately resulted in the reversal of the initial decision to dismiss the accused student and dismissal of the complainant's complaint," the department said in its announcement.

Story here. Excerpt:

'In the video, we see a woman’s rape allegations against her male co-worker fall apart as he sits helpless in jail. Though one case is not representative of all cases, it does raise the question of how many rape allegations are false.

A thesis by Edward Greer published in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review examines the issue of false rape allegations and reports some of the findings. At issue is the oft-repeated claim that only 2 percent of rape allegations are false.

"As far as can be ascertained, no study has ever been published which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the “two percent false rape complaint” thesis.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A man who stormed into a bonfire party with a handgun, believing his girlfriend had been raped by the men there, came out of the whole mess the worst for wear.

Janos Papp, 57, ended up being viciously beaten by the men at the party - who had not raped his girlfriend, it turned out. She had made the story up after her ATV broke down and she was angry the men at the party were too incompetent to help her.
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When they reached the Lac La Plonge dam, they found a group of people in their 20s drinking and celebrating a birthday. After a short visit, they left, but Papp's girlfriend had to stay behind because of a problem with her ATV. Two men from the bonfire party tried to help her.

Article here. The author operates two topically-related sites: http://www.parentalalienation.ca/ and http://www.parentalalienationeducation.com/. Excerpt:

'There are multiple explanations for parental rejection in separated and divorcing families. In this dynamic, children and the parents they reject often struggle over a declining relationship and dissipating contact.

Frequently the child's parental rejection is mirrored in their pertinacious, visitation refusal behaviour and in extreme cases of parental rejection children have been known to terminate all contact on a permanent basis (Turkat).
Management of Visitation Interference, Ira Daniel Turkat, Ph.D., The Judges Journal, Number 36 p.17-47 Spring, 1997

In a Canadian legal study exploring parental rejection between 1987- 2009, a correlation was found between gender bias and visitation resistance. (Coleman)
Trends Analysis, Gene C. Colman, 2009 CSPAS conference, Metro Toronto Convention Center.

This study examined 74 cases and found fathers to be biased as rejected parents by a statistic of 62%. Another similar, clinical study during 1985-2001 (which included 99 cases), found no bias at all. The gender ratio was closer to 50 - 50. (Gardner).

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS): Sixteen Years Later, Richard A. Gardner, M.D. Published in The Academy Forum , 2001, 45(1): 10-12 A Publication of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis.

Article here.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Levy. Three cheers for him: HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

Excerpt:

'National Parents Organization is saddened to announce the passing of David Levy [link added], a few weeks ago, shortly after his 78th birthday. David was a long-time advocate for children’s rights.

“David Levy was a champion for our cause who made tremendous personal sacrifices of his energy, time and financial resources to advocate for our nation’s children,” said Ned Holstein, MD, MS, National Parents Organization Founder and Chair of the Board. “A dedicated father and husband, he was also a respected leader in our community, and we were deeply saddened to learn of his passing.”

Not long after completing his law degree, David Levy made a name for himself by writing freelance articles in The Washington Post, but it was more than 20 years later that he would make a remarkable impact on our community as an advocate for the children’s rights and parenting rights movements.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Left-wing social engineers are never satisfied. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. So it is with fanatical “Only Yes Means Yes” activists. Earlier this year, they succeeded in convincing California’s legislature to pass a law requiring an “agreement” showing “affirmative consent” for sex on college campuses — and not just for sex, but also for a potentially broader, undefined category of sexual “activity” among college students. (Their ultimate goal is to require “verbal consent” to every sexual “act” or escalation of intimacy, even though it’s hard to imagine anyone in the real world who would actually want their lover to ask “may I touch your breast” or “may I massage your clitoris” before doing it, especially if their lover already knows from experience that such touching would be welcome.).

Those who don't learn history not only are doomed to repeat it, but may also miss crucial perspectives on a current narrative. I hadn't heard of this marvelous piece of work, one Rebecca Latimer Felton, first female US senator (albeit for a mere 24 hours, as she died the day after she was sworn in before she could do any further damage), committed third-wave feminist before the term had even been invented, and unapologetic pro-genocidal racist. Excerpt:

'Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate. She was sworn in November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At 87 years, nine months, and 22 days old, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. To date, she is also the only woman to have served as a Senator from Georgia. Her husband William Harrell Felton was a member of the United States House of Representatives and Georgia House of Representatives and she ran his campaigns. She was a prominent society woman; an advocate of prison reform, women's suffrage and educational modernization; and one of the few prominent women who spoke in favor of lynching. Bartley reports that by 1915 she "was championing a lengthy feminist program that ranged from prohibition to equal pay for equal work."
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Article here. Excerpt:

'This was supposed to be the year that everyone banded together to end campus sexual assault by any means necessary — even if it meant improperly branding young men across the country as rapists.

The focus on sexual assault in 2014, which began in January when President Obama announced a task force to combat the issue on college campuses, can be no coincidence. The “war on women” narrative worked quite well for President Obama and Democrats in 2012, and the 2014 midterms were expected to be challenging for the party. Combine that with the fact that young, unmarried women overwhelmingly voted for Democrats two years ago and it becomes clear why there was such an intense focus on the issue.
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It started in July when eight U.S. senators introduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which included a list of instructions for how schools should handle sexual assault but included no due process rights for students accused. At the end of September, California passed its “yes means yes” law, which defined consent so narrowly as to make nearly all sexual activity illegal unless no one reported it as such.

Criticism of that legislation, as well as tales of students railroaded by campus kangaroo courts and growing numbers of young men suing their universities for denying them due process, turned the tables on radical activists who determined that convicting more young men, regardless of innocence, was the best way to eradicate sexual assault.
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