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Some Are More Equal Than Others
By Kate Burch

It was reported yesterday that Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) warned against “blaming the victim” in the case of the fraternity brothers falsely accused of rape at UVA.  The bogus story of the rape, written by a gullible Rolling Stone writer, has been completely discredited, though the magazine is yet to print a retraction. 

Now, just who, do you suppose, is the victim in Senator Gillibrand’s eyes?  If you said the young men, their reputations and lives seriously affected by being falsely accused of a major crime, you would be wrong.  The victim, she says, is this misguided young woman who was apparently acting out of frustrated romantic yearning.

Gillibrand says that blaming her would discourage actual rape victims from coming forward.  She claims that many young women who are raped fear engaging with law enforcement because they think that they will be blamed or that they will not be taken seriously.  As to the suggestion that the young fantasist in question be prosecuted for the harm she has caused, she answers, “Totally inappropriate.”  The correct response to this regrettable occurrence, she says, is for colleges and universities to work even harder to combat the “rape culture” on campus.

This senator is actually a trained lawyer, but she has a record of accepting allegations of rape as true without a shred of evidence.  There can be no need of due process, I guess, for young, hormone-crazed and narcissistic males who would as soon rape you as look at you.  These monsters apparently do not deserve equal protection under the law. 

This whole, sick story is a piece of the radical feminist belief system that males have, throughout history, abused women; that women are perpetual victims of the “patriarchy.”  Some even go so far as to say that there is no sexual behavior between a man and a woman that does not qualify as rape, even consensual marital sex.  They have succeeded to a significant degree in a campaign to denigrate males and masculinity.  We see today some of the bitter fruits of this agenda in boys and young men who are discouraged from or punished for engaging in typical masculine behaviors.  Some collapse, others react by becoming more aggressive.  I would venture that the greatly lowered, and declining, ratio of males to females in higher education settings has something to do with the march of radical feminism.

Some in the social sciences have striven mightily to demonstrate that gender differences in behavior are strictly culturally determined; efforts to prove this hypothesis have failed.  Males and females are different, and there is a range of attitudes, behaviors and virtues typically aligned with each sex (though, of course, with much overlap.)  Neither is superior.  We need both for a healthy society. 


 
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