‘Highly Intoxicated Vaginal Penetration’: #RapeCulture and Campus Reality

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“Both sides agreed that Mr. Gilbert and the victim were at best acquaintances; both sides agreed he entered her room uninvited that night, in a highly intoxicated state, and both sides agreed that he initiated sexual contact which included vaginal penetration with the victim while she was asleep.”
— “Joint Statement,” New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (NHCADSV) and WISE (Women’s Information Services), March 27

The use of the word “victim” in that statement is rather problematic, considering that the statement was issued after Dartmouth College student Parker Gilbert was acquitted on all charges:

The foreman of the jury that found Parker C. Gilbert not guilty of sexually assaulting a Dartmouth College classmate said jurors were not swayed by the accuser’s account, which they found implausible.
Rick Rogers, of Enfield, was one of 12 jurors — six men and six women — who found Gilbert not guilty of five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge on Thursday. Deliberations lasted about four hours.
“(The woman’s) story of how the night played out, the evidence wasn’t there to support that,” Rogers said in a phone interview Thursday evening. “To the contrary, it was more in Parker’s favor. Her statement in the morning (to a friend) — that Parker stopped by and we had sex — is just not the answer that a rape victim would have.”
The prosecution had alleged Gilbert entered the woman’s unlocked dorm room in the early hours of May 2 and began having sex with her while she was asleep. The defense argued that the sexual encounter was consensual, “clumsy, awkward, drunk college sex.”
Rogers said there were many pieces of the accuser’s story that the jury thought pointed to consensual sex, including that the next morning when she told a friend about the encounter, she didn’t characterize it as an assault. . . .
Rogers said other evidence also swayed the jury, including the testimony of Nancy Wu, the suitemate who said that she was awake and heard sounds consistent with consensual sex.
Rogers described Wu as the most credible witness. . . .
A number of the witnesses had been drinking heavily on the night in question.

The accuser was drunk, the accused was drunk, and the witnesses were drunk — evidently everybody on campus at Dartmouth was completely hammered that night, and the only thing anyone can remember for sure is that “vaginal penetration” occurred.

Permit me to digress: Can someone get a trial transcript and provide me with verbatim quotes of Nancy Wu’s testimony? Because I’m curious to know what she says she heard, which the newspaper euphemistically describes as “sounds consistent with consensual sex.” Was the alleged victim moaning passionately, as if in a state of orgasmic ecstasy? “Oh, Parker! You sexy beast! Do me, baby!” But I digress . . .

K.C. Johnson at Minding the Campus calls attention to the Gilbert verdict and the bizarre reaction to his acquittal:

How did the activists at Dartmouth respond? With a lengthy statement (still labeling the accuser as a “victim”) denouncing the jury, demanding a “cultural shift” in what could be considered a crime. . . .
If Gilbert had been convicted, the message would have been a need to address “rape culture” at Dartmouth. With Gilbert acquitted, the message was a need to address “rape culture” at Dartmouth (and in New Hampshire!). Facts, it appears, don’t matter.

More importantly, I would argue, we don’t know what the facts are. All we know is (a) drunkenness and (b) “vaginal penetration,” and everything else is a matter of “he-said/she-said” testimony by the alleged victim and witnesses. None of the witnesses actually saw the carnal act, and only one claims to have heard “sounds consistent with consensual sex,” whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.

We don’t know what we don’t know, and yet the “rape culture” activists at Dartmouth insist that certainty of Parker Gilbert’s guilt is indisputable, that any skepticism or concerns for the due process rights of the accused is tantamount to “blaming the victim.”

Do I know what happened? No, absolutely I do not know.

For all I know, Parker Gilbert is a psychopathic pervert notorious for his habit of playing “booty bandit” with sleeping coeds.

On the other hand, for all I know, Parker Gilbert may be a highly popular collegiate studmuffin, and the alleged victim may have been gleefully riding him in reverse-cowgirl position, thrilled to have the opportunity for “vaginal penetration” by his throbbing manhood.

Despite my avowed ignorance — I believe the facts of the case are ultimately unknowable, under such circumstances — my hunch is that the truth is somewhere between the two extremes. The alleged victim was likely not an enthusiastic participant in the act of “vaginal penetration,” but the subsequent accusation of rape was a misguided attempt to place criminal responsibility onto Parker Gilbert for the “clumsy, awkward, drunk college sex” that resulted.

The jury, presented with all the available evidence and testimony in the case, declared Parker Gilbert not guilty of any crime. That does not mean, however, that his actions were morally right. Nor does it mean his accuser is to blame for the “vaginal penetration.”

Whereas I see this situation skeptically, with the understanding that some things are unknowable, Dartmouth College seems to be acting as if Parker Gilbert was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt:

Amanda Childress, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator at Dartmouth College, campus policies aren’t going far enough to protect students.
“Why could we not expel a student based on an allegation?” Childress asked at the panel, before noting that while 2 to 8 percent of accusations are unfounded (but not necessarily intentionally false), 90 to 95 percent are unreported, committed by repeat offenders, and intentional. “It seems to me that we value fair and equitable processes more than we value the safety of our students. And higher education is not a right. Safety is a right. Higher education is a privilege.”
“If we know that a person is reasonably a threat to our community,” Childress said, “why are we not removing them and protecting the safety of our students?”

WHOA! Did you catch that? First, Childress is in favor of expelling students “based on an allegation,” because “higher education is not a right.” (The latter claim would shock advocates of affirmative action, I’m sure.) But notice, also, that Childress justifies this attitude by grabbing some statistics out of thin air to claim “90 to 95 percent [of sexual assaults on campus] are unreported, committed by repeat offenders, and intentional.” In other words, according to Childress, serial rapists are prowling our nation’s college campuses, and for every rape that is reported, at least nine others go unreported.

Does that claim seem even remotely possible? Could it be that, in this day and age, at institutions of higher education that attract our most intelligent young people, an environment exists where 90 to 95 percent of sexual assaults — intentional acts, committed by repeat offenders — are never reported to authorities at all?

Childress made those bizarre claims in February, just a few days after Dartmouth College had promoted her to director of “the newly-created Center for Community Action and Prevention, which Childress said would ‘be the focal point on campus for Dartmouth’s sexual assault and violence prevention initiatives’ and ‘drive the College’s mobilization efforts around preventing sexual violence and increasing the safety and well-being of all members of our community.'”

Except for “members of our community” who have penises.

The “well-being” of male students falsely accused of rape is of no concern to Amanda Childress or her notorious comrade Kate Burke, chairwoman of Dartmouth’s Committee on Standards.

There is no justice at Dartmouth, and there will be no peace.

 

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  3. How come whenever you are over here with your fake concern trolling, I get a mental picture of The Screwtape Letters?

  4. Hard to measure, but I suspect modesty in women is less problematic for her social life than monkishness in men. I have been out of school for a while though, and tend to be perplexed by the young. I have had the impression that women are expected to put out much more quickly than was the case when I was 19.

    I’ve known in recent years young men in intensely Catholic enclaves who were not having any trouble (ultimately) because the young in their set believe in heaven and hell (married around 23, for the most part), and young men who happened on heavy women and Korean girls who had virtues which made them ace to build a life with.

  6. I’m thinking that Mr. Parker’s lawyers are rubbing their hands in glee as they put together a civil lawsuit against Dartmouth and several employees for slander and defamation, creating a hostile work environment, and whatever will lead to 7 to 8 figures for their client.

  8. False accusations of rape are a small percentage of actual rapes. False accusations are an issue but they should not be used to discredit ALL rape accusations (especially those that happen in the same environments.) Nobody “deserve” rape or their accusations belittled even if you don’t like their “liberal” lifestyles.

  9. She didn’t say anyone deserved rape. She did not say rape accusations should be discredited. You are creating and then arguing against strawmen.

  10. I don’t have sex with beta-males. My boyfriend is an alpha. BIG time. He’s a genius, with the body to match. In fact he looks like this:

  12. “She didn’t say anyone deserved rape.”

    She didn’t. Those were my words. I didn’t say she did. I was reiterating a truism.

    What she did say was: “The constant insistence that women/girls are victims, are never wrong,
    and that adult responsibility can not be expected of them, EVER</B., is[…]" (my bold)

    See..she was the one who was speaking in extremes. She created her own strawman and argued against it.

  14. You brag about the your sex partners a lot. From your previous comments I get that you are not a young woman anymore. You are supposedly a conservative woman. Why are you not married now? What the heck is wrong with you?

  15. Except that is NOT a “straw man,” but in fact the current reality on many or most college campuses.

    You’re the one living in an alternate reality here. As usual.

  18. I strongly suggest that Parker Gilbert get a lapel video camera and wear it all of the time. They are coming for him.

  19. “Conservative” does not necessarily mean “prude” or “celibate”.

    What you just did is called “stereotyping”, and the left used to hate it. Now they — and you — embrace it. And embrace the H8.

  21. Carl Urban is one of my favorite actors. I’m not sure why. Maybe because he works and you never hear about him otherwise because he’s not being a public idiot.

  23. What you just did is called “stereotyping”

    The sex life stereotype I presented is more that of a liberal woman.

    We just have her word for her claims of banging sex gods. In reality, she could be your (stereo)typical conservative woman, a fat, ugly unsatisfied housewife type who fantasizes about fucking James Bond.

  24. She is an agnostic, 100% disabled Navy veteran. She likes fine Scotch. Even if she’s lying about her boyfriend, and I have no reason to doubt her other than the internet and all, I think she’s funny and she makes me laugh. Oh, and she has three brass balls.

  25. Besides, if everyone is drunk, it’s a total waste of copulation. No one remembers it, even five minutes later. It’s like all you did was take a swim in the community cesspool before passing out.

  28. Yup… blame the victim. Seriously? That’s what you see?

    False accusations of robbery and murder are also a small small percentage of robberies and murders… do we just toss out having to prove guilt then?

    No one approves of rape. No one thinks that rape is not deathly serious (dealthy as in, I have a right to shoot you dead if I’ve got a reasonable expectation that you’re about to rape me).

    But this “rape culture” crap does not treat rape as deathly serious. It changes the definitions to any red-blooded sexual desire that doesn’t happen to be returned… like looking at an attractive woman’s ass. It changes the definitions so that we end up saying things like “real rape” and “rape-rape” and “violent rape” and… whatever. Because… who the heck knows… women’s empowerment?

    Schools would be far better to promote an environment of watching out for each other… of having a campaign that says what you’re supposed to do if you hear someone making non-consensual noises, even if you have no idea if your neighbors are just goofing around or if sex is happening. Instead of determining to kick boys out of school if they’re part of a drunken sex fest and someone is embarrassed by the video that comes out afterward, or set up a standard of expelling anyone on the basis of a girl’s morning after regrets.

  30. Heh. I lived in a dorm with male and female floors and one wing was all female, one all male. It was essentially a pseudo mixed-sex dorm, but close enough.

    The thing was, most guys who were “getting some” were doing so by sneaking into the all-female dorms.

    One chick managed to have a male roomate for the entire year in her all-women dorm because they lived like a married couple in her single-occupant room (they weren’t married, and broke up when he graduated), he was a rare, black student in the seventies, so the admin looked pointedly away, and the guy was a really nice, big, good-looking, intelligent guy who the girls all felt “safe” around. In other words, he didn’t do anything but impress people.

  33. BTW, I’d love to see a study on the post-degree jobs the radical feminists, especially those with degrees in Women’s Studies and the like, obtain. Seriously, hiring them is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I can see HR reading their resume, seeing the degree, and immediately sending out an email stating that the position has been filled, and refusing any sort of interview.

  35. “It seems to me that we value fair and equitable processes more than we value the safety of our students. And higher education is not a right. Safety is a right. Higher education is a privilege.”This stupid cunt would piss herself upon hearing the word profiling. Dear Jesus God we can’t pull a nervous looking middle easterner out of line at the airport for safety!!! But we can throw some rich boy out of school just on an allegation. How can feminist detest profiling (as you know they would) and not see that kicking a kid out of school on just an allegation is unfair?

  36. “She is an agnostic”

    She an Ayn Rand libertarian or something?

    Anyway, I have neither the time nor the interest to dig into her looooong internet trail. I understand that the twitter handle @bet0001970:disqus was suspended some time back. One thing I can say, there’s a lot of crazy shit going on with the ids of some conservative commentators who post here.

  37. I think she’s funny and she makes me laugh.

    That’s seems to be her shtick. People like you keep feeding her and she gets carried away.

  38. One good thing can come from all of this and that is young men might finally see that pursuing women for sex is a dangerous game that needs to stop.

    The fact that an unprepared for child could be brought into existence isn’t enough, perhaps the threat of heavy prison time might do it.

    Then if they can keep it in their pants until they’re 22-24 or so, they might be able to step back and evaluate the entire male-female relationship as it has metamorphed into the risky and expensive gambit that it has become.

    These days for a male to commit themselves to such a one sided contract is ridiculous and no longer appreciated by American Society. This applied even in strongly conservative areas in rural and suburban areas. Mass media has spread the disease.

    Men no longer have any substantial reason for pursuit of marriage or even a long term relationship with a woman as it is detrimental their health, their financial future and their mental stability. Their is no reward any longer. And no having children isn’t either as the likelihood that the female will divorce the male and take the children away and/or poison the relationship they could have had with their father approaches almost certainty over the span of 20-30 years.

    To those of you who scoff and say you have a wonderful marriage now and that can’t happen to you are only fooling yourselves.

    The odds are against you. The reward is minimal and the potential for havoc is large. Men must stop rewarding this blatant disregard for a man’s rights by the government and women.

  39. I thank the Lord that we heathens have a superior being like yourself to set us straight. All that moral preening you do must be tiring.

  42. Opportunity is not permission.
    Thats the boy rule, though it applies to girls too.
    Opportunity isn’t always resisted:
    that’s the girl rule. You’re lucky to be around honest men, but the world is full of people who take what they can get when they can get it, especially if they can’t get it otherwise.

  46. I don’t really identify with that “Now go pay your fucking child support” insult from bet0001970. I don’t have children but have an elder sister who has two little kids and a lot of cousins who have kids, but all of us are in strong families (no case of any divorces in our extended family), so that insult kinda felt alien to me, but I realize that it’s a reality for a lot of women in US. I empathize with them. I’m beginning to regret my retort towards bet0001970.

  47. The woman I married was attractive primarily because she was modest in public. I had no desire for a woman that would dress provocatively.

  49. If I’m nuts, that makes me at least eight times more nutty than you — Quarternut that you are (aspiring to be a Masternut.)

  50. Damn. You have a good memory. And I’m not lying about my boyfriend. He really is that good looking. I’m quite fortunate.

    And my twitter handle was suspended because Anamika AKA “One with No Name” AKA Neal…got it suspended. So let’s stop pretending, cupcake. You just can’t help giving yourself away, can you?

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