Internet Douchebag Patrol

Posted on | April 2, 2014 | 113 Comments

Look, it’s not as if there were a shortage of actual news for me to blog about today. For example, my friend Shaun McCutcheon won a landmark Supreme Court decision today, and there’s all kinds of commentary about McCutcheon v. FEC.

Here is a guy from Alabama who has bought me beers whose name is forever destined to be cited as a legal precedent and yet, I feel myself constrained merely to make brief notice of the decision, because the Internet is swarming with douchebags today.

I’m talking about you, Gregory Bernstein of Vanderbilt University.

Do I need some overprivileged college freshman to lecture me about “rape culture”? No, I most certainly do not. I’ll quote your ridiculous Huffington Post sermonette only briefly:

Rape culture is a culture in which we allow responsibility for sexual violence to be shifted from the rapist to the victim. Rape culture is a culture in which our first reaction upon learning about an alleged assault is to doubt victims, to ask what they were wearing, or what they were drinking. Rape culture is a culture in which myths and misconceptions about rape are allowed to be taught as truth.

Two words for you, Greg: Individual responsibility.

Cultures don’t rape people. Rapists rape people. What is objectionable about these endless “rape culture” lectures is that they represent an effort to demonize all men, to create a collective responsibility for crimes committed by individuals. Or, allegedly committed, as the circumstances in some cases are strongly disputed.

“Reasonable doubt” was all the rage after O.J. Simpson’s wife and her boyfriend got their throats cut, but let two drunk college kids get into an argument about whether she was sober enough to consent to sex last night, and anyone who mentions “reasonable doubt” is condemned as a slut-shaming, victim-blaming misogynist.

Stop preaching, Greg, as if we were ignorant fools in need of your enlightenment. Everybody is against rape, except rapists.

The problem, which is rampant on university campuses, is that there is a Hook-Up Culture, a Friends With Benefits Culture, and a Let’s Chug Vodka Until We’re Nearly Comatose Culture, all of which lead to situations in which “consent” is a he-said/she-said dispute, where evidence is ambiguous or non-existent, and where some people want us to disregard all due process protections for the accused.

But here, Greg, let me quote you briefly once more:

It’s time for individuals as well as colleges and universities to re-teach what it means to have consent. Consent is active, continuous, and given freely. Consent requires sobriety. Consent can be withdrawn. Consent to one sexual act is not consent to all sexual acts. “No” doesn’t mean “convince me.”

Restraining my urge to offer a sarcastic reply I’m sure I would regret, let me say this: You’re attempting to repeal human nature.

Such is the feminist “rape culture” project in its pure essence. As I’ve said before, the argument boils down to, “Shut up, because rape.”

All men must submit to feminist re-education, so angry lesbians can teach them to be as meek and harmless as geriatric eunuchs.

“Do I have your permission to get an erection, Amanda?”

Here’s some advice for college girls: If you are reasonably attractive and in the proximity of vigorous, manly, robust young fellows, be aware that such fellows are all savage sex-crazed animals who dream of passionately thrusting their rigid manhood deep inside you.

On the other hand, if the guys around you are pathetic Vanderbilt wimps like Greg Bernstein, you’re safe from all that.

Now, run along like a nice boy, Greg. We certainly wouldn’t want you to miss your next Women and Gender Studies class.

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

Comments

113 Responses to “Internet Douchebag Patrol”

Wombat_socho
April 3rd, 2014 @ 12:14 am

Hint: it’s not English.
Kirby McCain
April 3rd, 2014 @ 12:17 am

Brawn-based patriarchy has been getting obsolete — very slowly 🙂 — for centuries. Well, duh! Watch “Chisum” starring John Wayne. There’s a theme.
Adjoran
April 3rd, 2014 @ 12:57 am

Because he knew the internet wanted it.
Adjoran
April 3rd, 2014 @ 12:58 am

Not even with enough grain punch and a spiky strap-on?

I’d wager he’d consent.
Adjoran
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:05 am

Was that originally shot on Kodachrome?

Sorry for the duplicate current pics, it won’t let me edit them out
maniakmedic
April 3rd, 2014 @ 3:32 am

Being willfully obtuse does nothing for your argument, dear.
Steven_Broiles
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:16 am

We’re living in a culture of ENFORCED NIHILISM and it’s time for people to wake up. It’s all what Nietzsche called for—the transvaluation of all values. It’s gotten to the point that we’re living in a science fiction novel. And make no mistake about it: This false collective guilt is genuine moral evil. It’s bad sociology. And it truly is psychologically schizoid.
Zohydro
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:24 am

I found the old glam shot when I goOgled “[the name] in leather”… I denounce myself, etc….
Dana
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:54 am

Mr Bernstein wrote:

Consent is active, continuous, and given freely. Consent requires sobriety.

Mr Bernstein’s message might have been mocked by our esteemed host, but, you know what, he’s right on this point. If you get drunk and copulate, there is a more than negligible chance that your “date” will have some real regrets when she sobers up, and those regrets can have some pretty serious legal consequences. Even your “date” decides that she was raped, and presses charges, even if you are acquitted, the information that you were charged with rape will remain on the public record forever, and you will be out many thousands of dollars in legal bills.

When Mr Bernstein says, “It’s time for individuals as well as colleges and universities to re-teach what it means to have consent,” he’s right. How many frat parties are there where young ladies and gentlemen get stinking drunk and wind up doing things that they would not do if sober? It’s not just copulation, but pictures, almost always of the girls, taken in various stages of undress or in flagrante dilecto, and posted on the internet, or even, as Donald Douglas reported, dying from drunken stupidity. Colleges need to point this out, simply as a matter of due diligence, because the mixture of raging hormones, youthful daredevilry and alcohol does not always lead to happy endings.

Colleges will never be able to completely eliminate alcohol use — even the Naval Academy failed in this — but they can damned well point out what problems can occur.
WJJ Hoge
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:21 am

When I attended Vanderbilt back in the ’60s, the Dean of Men informed a meeting of incoming male students during freshman orientation that there was only one rule governing our conduct: “A Vanderbilt student is a gentleman.” I don’t know if that’s still the case today, and I wonder how many kids now entering my alma mater would understand what the Dean meant.
Drunken decisions | The First Street Journal.
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:34 am

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Dana
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:43 am

If they don’t, it’s a failure of their parents.
Reason
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:45 am

Emphasis on WAS.
bet0001970
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:49 am

In response to Kirby’s question, I’d like to know where Greg Bernstein’s concern for sobriety and consent is when it comes to men. It’s as if they become magically un-drunk when having sex in these scenarios. Are they no less victims of rape when a female perpetrates her assault vagina on them while they are under the influence? Are they no less incapable of consent in those circumstances? These feminists want equality. Well they can have it.

Start criminally charging them for rape.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:09 am

Actually, “flashing boob in a bar, then accusing rape”, is just an ugly to women, sentence and thought.

Most women don’t consider shirtlessness to be an incite to sex of any kind and we’re sad that men have been encouraged to think it might be so, and the very word “boobs” conjures the commercialization of the female breast in a way that make some men quite insane.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:10 am

quite so!
bet0001970
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:11 am

Oh. Did you want to see a picture of me?
Hmm. No.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:15 am

Fertility seems to (have) be(en) a big deal in “primitive” cultures. We can only guess (project?) what differences there might be between the sacredness of life in a pre-organized religion and today’s concept-dominated versions.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:19 am

No, you should have sex with half a dozen 19 year olds.
Zilla of the Resistance
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:21 am

When I saw the title of this post, I thought maybe Stacy had noticed that the guy who used to make public death threats against him on Twitter, the guy who published Michelle Malkin’s private home address and pictures of her house, the guy who talked trash about a man’s wife shortly after she passed away, and the guy who has been a festering bloated parasite on the underbelly of the blogosphere for years and years, was up to his usual schtick of ranting about “Jews and neocons” in the comments section of Stacy’s recent AmSpec piece about Michelle Malkin. Yep, old Moobs is still spewing his special brand of crazybile all over the interwebz, even in Michelle Malkin’s own comments section at her place.
Here you will find links to reminders just as an off-topic FYI:
https://twitter.com/ZillaStevenson/status/451497176351670273
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:33 am

Consider Duke student, Thomas Bagley, who outed Belle Knox. She wouldn’t fuck him. Maybe you should let him know, “I would have loved to fuck him in college.”
Richard McEnroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:04 am

I don’t believe in decent liberals anymore. I’ve seen too much of who they actually vote for, too much pf what they defend and too many of the consequences of their conduct. To me, ‘LIBERAL’ is simply a synonym for ‘idiot’ and ‘hypocrite.’
MNHawk
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:07 am

I’ll disagree a little here

“Rape culture is a culture in which we allow responsibility for sexual violence to be shifted from the rapist to the victim. Rape culture is a culture in which our first reaction upon learning about an alleged assault is to doubt victims, to ask what they were wearing, or what they
were drinking, or whether the rapist is for government paid abortion.”

Fixed. Remember, Bill Clinton and the Ready for Hillary brigade is a part of that very culture, excusing rapists and blaming victims.
richard mcenroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:08 am

“Of course there are places where the “rape culture” does exist.”

That is no way to talk about the Democratic Party, son!
richard mcenroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:09 am

The racoon gets all the good lines.
richard mcenroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:10 am

Brawn-based patriarchy has been getting obsolete — very slowly 🙂 — for centuries.

Unless there’s a fire, or an earthquake, or a tornado, or a purse-snatching, or an invasion, or a flood…
richard mcenroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:11 am

…or any real-world situation that requires both physical courage and moral stamina.
Dana
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:14 am

And that’s because women can now copulate freely, without the social repercussions of being a slut; the bad boys can get laid with impunity. When women were expected to be married to their bed partners, they had to look more for the men they could (reasonably) expect to be good husband material, not just hot boyfriend material.
ZZZZZZZZ
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:03 pm

ooooo! The porn lovin’ feminist is getting pissy with another woman!

Because she’s conservative. That’s the commie way of doing things.
JeffS
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:06 pm

Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

He looks like a beta male to me. More so because he was banging a porn queen, and bragging about it his fellow frat rats. Because that’s all he had.

So he’s doesn’t meet bet0001970’s standards.

Tut tut, Anamika! Ad hominems are not the way to engage in civil discourse! Tut tut!
ZZZZZZZZ
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:08 pm

Conceded. Perhaps I should note that my friends don’t vote. Ergo, their opinions are moot.
Mark Daniel Johansen
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:16 pm

If you put your life savings in a clear plastic bag and leave it on a bench in a public park, and then a week later you come back for it and you find that it’s been stolen … Is the person who took it still guilty of theft? Of course. Does the fact that you presented him with a tempting target and made it easy to steal absolve him of responsibility? Of course not. But … you were pretty stupid to leave your money in a clear plastic bag in a public place. What did you expect to happen? If that’s “blaming the victim”, then yes, I blame the victim.
Similar reasoning applies if a woman puts on slutty clothes, goes to a bar known to be popular with gang members, and gets drunk.
Quartermaster
April 3rd, 2014 @ 1:51 pm

Anamika is nuts.
daleyrocks
April 3rd, 2014 @ 2:46 pm

Oh good. Anamika is now presuming to speak on behalf of most women.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 2:58 pm

More so because he was banging a porn queen, and bragging about it his fellow frat rats.

You can’t be more wrong.
JeffS
April 3rd, 2014 @ 3:13 pm

Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

I might be wrong about him banging Miriam Weeks; it’s possible that he wanted to bang her.

But he certainly bragged about Miriam, in the “Hey, guys, guess what I know about Miriam, tee hee hee!” manner.

Tut tut, Anamika! Just how would you know I’m wrong about such a intimate matter? Tut tut!
Patrick Carroll
April 3rd, 2014 @ 3:16 pm

Since the poor dears can’t shift for themselves, perhaps our culture should change so that women are not allowed out of the house without a male relative to chaperone them.
Anamika
April 3rd, 2014 @ 3:23 pm

I was going by the published stories, accounts by Knox and Bagley. I’m sorry i didn’t consider the possibility of your involvement in a threesome with Knox and Bagley, then you would know for sure.
pabarge
April 3rd, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

Consent to one sexual act is not consent to all sexual acts

You can see where this is going, right?

“may I put my finger here, please?”
“oh yes! please do!!!”
“now may I put my finger over here, please?”
“oh yes, by all means. please do that!”
may I put this … in your …?
“gosh, let’s try that. Go a little slow, don’t push so hard”
…
“Hey! You just put your … up my …!!! ummm, like I didn’t say OK.”
“My friends just found out that you put your … up my … and they’re all like euwwww, what a slut and shaming me!!!”

“RAPE!!! RAPE!!! RAPE!!!“.
Rosalie
April 3rd, 2014 @ 4:27 pm

“The more vocal the male in promoting feminist ideals and bitching points, the more likely the male will become a sadist, taking his sex from whatever woman is around at the time.”
I think you just described the majority of the Democrats.
Rosalie
April 3rd, 2014 @ 4:37 pm

I don’t think parents should always get blamed. Some kids are easily led and succumb to peer pressure.
Adjoran
April 3rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm

How fitting is it that on a post titled “Internet Douchebag Patrol,” the leading commenter is Anamika? (12/87 so far)

You just can’t make this stuff up.
K-Bob
April 3rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm

Stacy has found the Marcellus Shale equivalent of stupid, leftist gas-baggery. Once he hit the pocket, he naturally used horizontal drilling to fan out operations and exploit the field properly.

This particular article by Stacy is essentially a fracking operation.

It will assure the field remains viable for quite some time.

Plus, barack’s team of fertilizer spreaders is making sure the gas bubbles up to the layer of least competence. Look for the products of that zone to be on the mastheads of liberal “blogzines” in the near future.
Dana
April 3rd, 2014 @ 4:50 pm

Supposedly, this fine gentleman recognized the lovely Miss Weeks because he had a hugely expensive pr0n habit. Upon seeing his picture, I can see why he had to resort to pr0n: he’d have been able to score with only the most desperate of ladies on the Duke campus.

If I hadn’t known that he sought sex from Miss Weeks, I’d have thought that he was a twink.
Bradoplata
April 3rd, 2014 @ 5:42 pm

😉

Doesn’t matter anyway, your central Texas town or mine?
Zohydro
April 3rd, 2014 @ 5:46 pm

…Or their school teachers, media, and pop culture… One cannot always effectively mitigate all the influences to which kids will be exposed!
Richard McEnroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 5:56 pm

Speaking of internet douchebags, Mozilla just fired Eich to placate the gays. I just dropped Firefox.
Zohydro
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm

I just read that myself! WTF is “OkCupid”? I’m keeping Firefox though… F*ck the Gaystapo!

http://news.yahoo.com/mozilla-says-ceo-resigns-amid-gay-marriage-controversy-195338477.html;_ylt=AwrBEiT.yT1TKDYAllnQtDMD
Rosalie
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:34 pm

Exactly.
Bob Belvedere
April 3rd, 2014 @ 6:47 pm

The routers said ‘No’, but the servers said ‘Yes’.