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‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’

Posted on | June 11, 2014 | 57 Comments

Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)

“Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say.”
Robert Stacy McCain, May 4

Who is turning rape into a joke? Feminists, by their counterfactual insistence that American university campuses are now plagued by an epidemic of sexual violence unprecedented in human history. When an unfortunate incident between between a girl and her ex-boyfriend is rhetorically magnified into a horrific crime — a U.S. Senator goes on national TV to claim Dan Kopin “brutally raped” and “nearly choked to death” Lena Sclove — it cheapens the meaning of the word “rape.”

Yet the totalitarian Thought Police tolerate no criticism of feminist tactics, which is why George F. Will cannot be allowed to say this:

Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.
Consider the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. “sexual assault.”

From that beginning, Will went on to examine the “rape culture” phenomenon both anecdotally and statistically, considering it in terms of law and policy, focusing on how the Obama administration is using this as an excuse to impose new federal mandates on universities. But it was his opening paragraphs which made him a Thought Criminal.

First, Will observed that the campus climate “make[s] victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges,” and then he referred to “the supposed campus epidemic of rape.” In doing so, he violated a 21st-century commandment: Thou Shalt Not Doubt a Feminist.

The privileges conferred by the Cult of Victimhood are never to be skeptically examined, no matter how many examples — hello, Meg Lanker Simons! — of the phenomenon we may observe. And if feminists say rape is an “epidemic” on campus, we are all supposed to nod in agreement, rather than doing what George Will did, namely calling attention to evidence that this “epidemic” is a matter of statistical voodoo and elastic definitions. Rude gestures and clumsy hugs are categorized as “sexual assault,” and the claim is made that 1-in-5 college girls suffer sexual assault, despite data indicating that the real number is probably less than 1-in-30 — “too high,” Will hastened to add, “but nowhere near 20 percent.”

Creating a phony “epidemic” by statistical inflation and rhetorical exaggeration is dishonest, yet liberals always expect us to accept their lies at face-value, bristling with indignant outrage that intelligent people refuse to be bullied into mute acquiescence.

On MSNBC — America’s Least Trusted News Source™ — professional outrage peddler Michael Eric Dyson leaped atop the barricade:

“When he used phrases like so-called rape epidemic, doesn’t that trivialize the trauma that women have to endure in the face of the rape that they’ve endured, and then they’re re-raped, they’re re-traumatized again verbally and rhetorically by insensitivities like the ones Mr. Will exhibited?” Dyson asked, in typical absurdly leading fashion.
For her part, liberal guest Zerlina Maxwell said Dyson was “absolutely 100 percent” correct in that assessment.

Victims are “re-raped” and “re-traumatized” by newspaper columnists! One imagines thousands of teary-eyed women, bruised and disheveled, brought in for the police line-up. They peer at the suspects on the other side of the one-way mirror and then, pointing the accusatory finger at the septuagenarian pundit in owlish glasses, the victims scream: “That’s him! He’s the columnist who re-raped us!”

If mocking this feminist nonsense is “rape,” the sarcastic commenters at Ace of Spades HQ are turning it into a gang-bang.

 

Comments

57 Responses to “‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’”

  1. commonpatriot
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

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  2. MrEvilMatt
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

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  3. CHideout
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

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  4. Lockestep1776
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

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  5. Citzcom
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

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  6. PubliusNV
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:23 pm

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  7. Dianna Deeley
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:24 pm

    Bless the Moron Horde!

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:42 pm

    George Will did not even buy me dinner first.

    Bastard!

  9. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 11th, 2014 @ 1:45 pm
  10. rsmccain
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

    ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’ http://t.co/ynhRwo7YmS #tcot #YesAllWomen

  11. g56yu
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm

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  12. Oenonewept
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm

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  13. varadmehta
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm

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  14. BobBelvedere
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’ http://t.co/ynhRwo7YmS #tcot #YesAllWomen

  15. Josh_Painter
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:12 pm

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  16. LiesDestroy
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm

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  17. AmPowerBlog
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:21 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’ http://t.co/ynhRwo7YmS #tcot #YesAllWomen

  18. BDSoCal
    June 11th, 2014 @ 2:46 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’ http://t.co/ynhRwo7YmS #tcot #YesAllWomen

  19. Cactus Ed
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:01 pm

    Gee, it’s almost like we should make rape illegal, or something or other.

  20. robertstacymccain
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:19 pm

    Willie Horton could not be reached for comment.

  21. LeatherPenguin
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm

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  22. instapundit
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:29 pm

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  23. phxazgrl
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:32 pm

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  24. g56yu
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:33 pm

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  25. erickbrockway
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:41 pm

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  26. rsmccain
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:47 pm

    RT @erickbrockway: ‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’ http://t.co/6yRbA4t9NK #tcot

  27. Josh_Painter
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:57 pm

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  28. Neosexist
    June 11th, 2014 @ 3:59 pm

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  29. Pablo_1791
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:04 pm

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  30. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:10 pm

    Your ear canals are like a glory hole in a seventies bath house when you listen to MSNBC!

  31. AmPowerBlog
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:23 pm

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  32. Adjoran
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:39 pm

    George Will can take it with aplomb. The question is, “Why does New York put up with a stupid whore like Gillibrand?” I get it’s a blue state, but they usually send smarter people, connivers like Schumer and Hillary and RFK and D’Amato, even the great thinker Moynihan.

    This ditz is there because she’s good looking, apparently.

  33. K-Bob
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:55 pm

    I used to be one of the funny commenters at Ace’s. Now I’m not funny anymore, and I’m forced to live in a cardboard website (Frontpage, of course) under the Breitbart overpass.

    I blame the white patriarchy.

    But feminists need to use a different personal pronoun when referring to themselves. The letter ‘i’ looks too much like you could end up getting raped.

  34. K-Bob
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:58 pm

    Your ear canals wuz askin’ for it.

  35. K-Bob
    June 11th, 2014 @ 4:59 pm

    He strikes me as a steak and taters man.

  36. K-Bob
    June 11th, 2014 @ 5:03 pm

    Maybe instead of ‘i’ they can use ‘?’

    It kind of looks like, well, you know…

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/17/article-0-0315FFD5000005DC-190_468x362.jpg

  37. concern00
    June 11th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

    I feel compelled to turn myself in as a serial rapist. I was engaged in many clumsy courting episodes at college. I am devastated to finally discover that I am the perpetrator of such horrific crimes.

  38. AviWoolf
    June 11th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

    “Who is turning rape into a joke? Feminists” http://t.co/tdByVfxLvV #YesAllWomen

  39. southpaw_
    June 11th, 2014 @ 7:32 pm

    RT @AviWoolf: “Who is turning rape into a joke? Feminists” http://t.co/tdByVfxLvV #YesAllWomen

  40. Macbeth870
    June 11th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm

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  41. Bob Belvedere
    June 11th, 2014 @ 8:01 pm

    More like Steak Tartare and Frites.

  42. Bob Belvedere
    June 11th, 2014 @ 8:02 pm

    It’s Room 101 for you, comrade.

  43. thatMrGguy
    June 11th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

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  44. murphgen9
    June 11th, 2014 @ 9:32 pm

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    June 12th, 2014 @ 8:34 am

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    June 12th, 2014 @ 8:36 am

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  48. rsmccain
    June 12th, 2014 @ 9:20 am

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    June 12th, 2014 @ 10:32 am

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  50. Art Deco
    June 12th, 2014 @ 4:47 pm

    She was a big-law lawyer for a dozen years and supposedly pulled $500,000 per annum at the end of her tenure with the politically connected firm which employed her. Law is an occupation which relies on verbal agility, so it’s difficult to reconcile her mode of expression (frankly adolescent) with her work history. You kind of wonder if she’s a mean and manipulative salope behind closed doors; you figure there’s a reason Downstate insiders call her ‘Tracy Flick’.