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SAVE: One in Five: It’s a Lie
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
FACT: The actual rate of sexual assault against college women is 0.6% per year — 2.4% over the four-year college period — according to the Department of Justice report (see graph on the right). This number includes assaults that are reported and not reported to the police.'
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i had thought.....
i had thought that Barack Obama was the dawn of a new day when he became president. i thought surely, a man that comes from the background of an "oppressed people" would want to see equal justice for all, regardless of race or gender. i was younger, then. i was naive, then.
unfortunately, Barack Obama is really no better than any other politician, especially on the left. (not that the right doesn't have their problems, as well).
same old socialist, anti-constitutional, anti-male rubbish. proving to me once and for all, it doesn't matter your color, race or gender... a bigot is a bigot, is a bigot.
i've grown up a lot, since those early days.
About Obama
One of the sad ironies about Obama is that rape hysteria in the past often meant black men hanging from ropes. Obama, however, is on board with new, 21st-century brand of rape hysteria. He's helped to promulgate it through the "1-in-5" claim.
But the new rape hysteria is a lot like the old rape hysteria, except it applies to all men and not just black men. I don't see that as an improvement.
Lowering the standard of proof for college men accused of rape gets us closer to the lynch mob mentality where the woman's word was enough. So far, there have been no lynching--but a few people threw bricks through the windows of the frat house where "Jackie" was allegedly raped.
Obama has turned out to be a whole lot worse than many of us expected. I didn't vote for him, but I did expect a better performance. Even his fellow Democrats have largely abandoned him. They certainly didn't want him to campaign for them.
Actually, plenty of lynchings of men of any skin color ...
... have happened and continue to happen figuratively and literally. Just search MANN and many other news sites with such keywords as "man killed mob accused rape" and start reading. Lynchings don't require ropes tied to tree limbs for them to meet the definition. All it takes is judgment and sentence (of death) passed by an angry mob to qualify.
Men being accused of rape by women, summarily judged guilty by an angry mob of other men and killed by whatever means, is as old as the hills. Unfortunately.
Good point, Matt
No literal lynchings on campus, but plenty of other damage done.
There was the recent case of a girlfriend who told her boyfriend that a group of men raped her because they couldn't help her with her snowmobile. The boyfriend went after the men--and suffered severe damage. I think the boyfriend got arrested and charged, even though he suffered most of the damage.
snoops
"NEVER TALK ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS"
Scrutinize any unsolicited contact as it is sometimes initiated by some sort of predator wanting to take not benefit and is usually full of questions up front while revealing nothing about themselves as if you're being interrogated, because you are. This may show as a challenge to your privacy very quickly if they're not getting the upper hand, so be be cool, and just redirect the conversation without satisfying their need for chaos.
"KEEP EM BUSY WITH NOTHING"
It's cheap and easy and they can't withstand any difficulty. Have a "script" of your own to redirect an interrogation now by answering a question with a question deterring any possible action not yet begun against you, or your kids just in case it turns out to be a good "call" later on.
You can be more open with true friends when you've had time to observe them and their "friends" on your terms which can take a while to accurately determine if they or their "friends", are a foe with their own script as you must consider that you don't know who all they talk to.
This scares a creep, and you'll get the creeps from them, who now fits into the "bad" column which easier to manage if you treat them and their "friends" that way from now on instead of wasting time tracking them if they're a bother anyway.
Put them in a "bad light" with others without tipping them or their kind off. You don't have to make life easy for them or life tougher for yourself.
After all this will most likely be their tactic and creeps can't handle their own tactics because it's what hurts them most and most easily. They are after all lazy. They tend to associate with each other while trying to fane their influence, associations and numbers to hide just how weak they are. Not everyone they talk to cares for them either, though that doesn't make their opposition your friend.
"LESS EXPOSED IS LESS WORK LATER"
Also, don't mix friends with family or your girl as this invites negative possibilities. Your friends are yours, and will have a different slant with different people and, who needs the problematic side of contacts. Who knows who they talk to.
You can't control others, but you can sidestep they're negative intentions or honest slip ups with their friends or even foes whether they know it or not. Your interest are just that. Yours. Keep it that way. You never know when someone you know and especially someone they know could be a problem, typically out of carelessness or even selfish reasons as some or most people, depending how you look at it are in fact careless or selfish and will prevent benefit to your kids whether or not it benefits theirs', just in case.
Your sons' deserve your best efforts as they are the future of a strong society that unfortunately tolerates weakness like a creeping normalcy as if weakness isn't a threat.