The War Against Human Nature: What Does ‘Unreasonable Pressure’ Mean?

Posted on | May 7, 2015 | 74 Comments

The Sexual Assault Task Force at the University of Kansas has some very strange (and by “very strange” of course I mean, typical feminist) ideas about what “sexual assault” involves:

Under “Recommendations for Policy and Process Improvement,” the task force recommends clarifying the definition of “incapacitation” in order to differentiate between “wrongful” and “permissible” conduct.
A university spokeswoman told The College Fix by email that the school defines incapacitation as an “inability to make informed, rational judgments.”
When substances are involved, “incapacitation” refers to how “alcohol or drugs consumed” can affect decision-making, including consequences and judgments, the spokeswoman said, responding on behalf of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. . . .

(Fact: Young people commonly get drunk or high for the specific purpose of lowering their inhibitions, thus to facilitate or enhance sexual activity that they would be too afraid or embarrassed to initiate or enjoy if they were sober. This is what was meant by the old joke in which the “mating call of the Southern sorority girl” was described as, “Woo-hoo! I am SO drunk, y’all!”)

The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access uses “incapacitation” as part of its multifaceted definition of sexual violence: “Taking sexual advantage of another person without consent, including causing or attempting to cause the incapacitation of another person.” . . .

(Fact: The legal drinking age is 21. If university officials are worried that “incapacitation” due to drunkenness is a contributing factor in sexual assault cases — as it obviously often is — the most obvious expedient would be to crack down on underage drinking by students. Yet because administrators at almost every university tolerate illegal underage drinking by freshmen and sophomores, we are told there is a “rape crisis” on campus when it usually seems more like a “drunk teenage sex crisis” on campus.)

The Kansas task force also acknowledges the vagueness in defining coercion as “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” because it does not distinguish between “coercive” versus “non-coercive sexual conduct.” . . .
The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access uses the word “unwelcome” several times to describe prohibited behavior: One of those is “unwelcome efforts to develop a romantic or sexual relationship” or “unwelcome physical touching or closeness.”

You can read the rest of that.

Here, in the effort to add “coercion” to the definition of sexual assault, we see the real agenda behind feminism’s “rape culture” discourse. To put it bluntly, it is an attempt to criminalize male heterosexuality.

If you have studied feminist writing about sexuality, you know that they stretch the word “coercion” beyond recognition, so that male behavior which is entirely normal, customary and lawful is depicted as part of a “continuum of sexual aggression.” A presentation called “Understanding the Continuum of Sexual Violence” describes it this way:

Sexual violence is supported by the attitude or viewpoint that women are sex objects, and often takes the form of suggestive looks or actions, sexist comments, and sexual exploitation. All too often our society treats objectification of women as a cultural norm that does no real harm. Men whistling at and calling out to women on the street is tolerated, jokes or rude comments are the daily fare of talk shows and other media venues, and sexually pornographic material proliferates under the guise of freedom of speech and expression. All too often, none of this is considered “criminal” but is part of a largely accepted societal attitude towards women.
The level to which our society accepts sexual objectification creates a foundation where this becomes the absolute value of women.

What is involved in this, you see, is the creation of a connect-the-dots theory about “rape culture” in which anything that is deemed offensive, from “suggestive looks” to “jokes or rude comments,” is construed as part of a “societal attitude” that contributes to sexual assault. By this means, every double-entendre in an old Marx Brothers comedy becomes part of “rape culture,” while every vintage pin-up is also implicated in this “continuum” because it involves “sexual objectification.”

So now, in attempting to codify “coercion” and “harassment” as part of university policy, we find ambiguous phrases like “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” — how much “pressure” is “reasonable”? — as well as the use of the word “unwelcome” to describe “efforts to develop a romantic or sexual relationship” or “physical touching or closeness.”

Stipulate that some guys have deficient social skills, and are not good at “reading signals,” as we used to say, while other guys simply don’t know how to deal with rejection. Especially when we are talking about young guys (teenage boys, really, 18 or 19 years old, and away from home for the first time) it is inevitable that many of them will make awkward (“unwelcome”) attempts to “develop a romantic or sexual relationship.” This is inevitable, as I say, and unless you are engaged in a War Against Human Nature, you expect young women to be prepared to deal with male attention that is “unwelcome,” as well as “pressure” that is “unreasonable.”

Feminist ideology, however, demonizes male sexuality in such a way as to relieve women of all responsibility in negotiating the ordinary difficulties of normal sex life. Any attempt to advise females about avoiding sexual danger is condemned by feminists as “blaming the victim.” When confronted with the typical “he-said/she-said” cases that are cited as evidence of a campus “rape epidemic” — which usually involve what seems to be an unhappy misunderstanding between two drunk teenagers — your effort to discuss the ambiguities without presuming the guilt of the accused male could result in you being branded a “rape apologist.”

An 18-year-old college freshman starts knocking back tequila shots at a party, grinding on the dance floor with any guy who strikes her fancy and — surprise! surprise! — wakes up naked the next morning beside a complete stranger, with only the vaguest recollection of how she got there or why she’s feeling so sore and sticky. It’s impossible under the circumstances to prove she was raped, but her predicament (alas, too common in the binge-drinking “hookup culture” that prevails on many campuses) can be interpreted by a school disciplinary tribunal as sexual misconduct by the guy who “got lucky” with the drunk freshman and he may face expulsion as a penalty.

Is there a problem with sexual behavior on university and college campuses? Yes. It involves porn. It involves booze. It involves a decline of Judeo-Christian morality among youth. Even if you’re an atheist, even if you think illegal underage drinking is acceptable, even if you approve the Internet-driven flood of pornographic filth into the impressionable minds of adolescents — even granting all those caveats and exemptions for liberalism’s see-no-evil attitudes about such things, can’t we agree that this convergence of harmful influences creates a potentially dangerous sexual climate?

Although I know “Jackie” at UVA lied about being gang-raped at Phi Kappa Psi, I would never want my daughter to set foot in a frat party, or any other situation where college boys are getting drunk. Whether or not any of them could be trusted sober, they damned sure can’t be trusted when they’re drunk, and any college girl foolish enough to think otherwise is likely to wake up sore and sticky the next morning. You can go chant slogans at a “Take Back the Night” rally if you want, but you’re never going to win a War Against Human Nature.

Meanwhile, the attempt to criminalize male heterosexuality — which is what feminism’s “rape culture” discourse is really about — is likely to have consequences that neither the feminists nor their opponents can anticipate. Culture shifts often operate like Newton’s Third Law of Motion, where there is an equal and opposite effect. The degrading influence of pornography has inspired truly disgusting behavior among some young people (see paragraphs 16, 18 and 26 in the Nungesser v. Columbia lawsuit). Yet if that is the “equal” effect of the Newtonian equation, we can also perceive an opposite effect in the noticeable increase of women preferring lesbian relationships to such painful degradation in the contemporary “hookup culture.” We may observe that Emma Dawson, who was an ardent advocate of “sex-positive” feminism at Wesleyan University, thought it was a “good opportunity to remind everyone I’m queer” after she gained notoriety by making a public issue of her herpes infection.

The word “queer” has been popularized to include a wide range of sexual behaviors, so that a “queer feminist” is not necessarily a lesbian. Because she recounts various heterosexual exploits in her herpes narrative, we may presume that “queer” for Dawson signifies she’s a sort of bisexual Ado Annie. So, she’s a herpes-infected 22-year-old queer who paid $47,972 a year to get a bachelor of arts in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Probably a Democrat, too.

Gotta be pretty bad out there, if any guy would resort to “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” to girls like that.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . .”

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Category: Crime, Culture, Education, National Offend a Feminist Week, Sex Trouble

Comments

74 Responses to “The War Against Human Nature: What Does ‘Unreasonable Pressure’ Mean?”

Kirby McCain
May 8th, 2015 @ 7:52 pm

I’m single, so it’s off to the Mammary Observation Bar for me.
RS
May 8th, 2015 @ 9:38 pm

The young men are responsible for both their own behavior and girls’ behavior.

My son attends a highly regarded, yet inexpensive state STEM university which is consistently ranked among the best for “return on investment.” His means of dealing with the weirdness? Ignore girls at college. Stick to the ones from church and his (protestant parochial) high school. Don’t participate in the hook-up culture.

In other words, remember how you were reared.
Jeanette Victoria
May 9th, 2015 @ 1:41 pm

The same should go with voting…we are in this mess because most woman are to easily manipulated and they believe all sort idiotic things to vote in any rational manner
Jeanette Victoria
May 9th, 2015 @ 1:45 pm

My most persistent anon twitter barnacle was the result of me posting that perhaps it isn’t a good idea that a girl get blind drunk in public because she might become the target for scummy men who might rape her.
FMJRA 2.0: We’ve Got It Goin’ On : The Other McCain
May 9th, 2015 @ 3:21 pm

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Robert What?
May 9th, 2015 @ 4:40 pm

Don’t even get me started. I think the only people who should be allowed to vote are those with “skin in the game”, i.e., productive taxpayers. In addition, anyone who is a net recipient of government benefits should not be given the vote. This includes welfare recipients at the bottom, but also includes government contractors, lobbyists, etc, at the top. Of course, this will never happen so it is really just a mental exercise. But yes, I would say that 19th Amendment was one of the worst. But then so was the 17th: that one transformed the US from a Democratic Republic into to a Democracy. It’s been all down hill from there.
Jeanette Victoria
May 9th, 2015 @ 5:03 pm

What is it about progressives and feminists that accuse the innocent and innocent men especially of all sort of perversions. Projection? What kind of gutter delling mind comes up with such evil intent? http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/outer-east/men-feeling-under-siege-after-revelation-man-was-wrongly-accused-on-facebook-of-being-a-creep/story-fnrwkhlp-1227346583430
Jeanette Victoria
May 9th, 2015 @ 5:05 pm

I agree. It should be male head of household who pays taxes and owns property
Dana
May 9th, 2015 @ 6:03 pm
theoldsargesays
May 9th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm

I took a look at that link and did a little reading about Wabash College- it seems to be a good school, an island of sanity in a sea of perversion in the education system these days.
No doubt it’s because they’re not part of the “system”. From what I gather they rely solely on endowments and private fundraising.
Thanks for the link.
Daniel Freeman
May 10th, 2015 @ 1:01 am

Men, drink a lot and stay away from drunken women. It’s really helpful if you have one or two dozen best friends that can testify to where you were at 1 or 2 a.m. on a Thursday night. Speaking from experience.
Strength Building
May 10th, 2015 @ 1:09 am

Strength Building

The War Against Human Nature: What Does ?Unreasonable Pressure? Mean? : The Other McCain
Daniel Freeman
May 10th, 2015 @ 1:12 am

I would be happy with the franchise being for anyone who pays net taxes and/or serves in the military, regardless of sex, as long as it’s a direct democracy.

There is no reason for us to go through this charade of electing these clowns. Let’s just vote on everything ourselves. Techies like me can make it happen.
Daniel Freeman
May 10th, 2015 @ 1:26 am

Oddly enough, I ended up at a Mammary Observation Bar tonight, for the second time in my life (this time unplanned). It was an interesting experience.

One of the things that put me off the first time was how depressed I got afterward from how they were just pretending to be interested in you, when they were really interested in your money.

So I really appreciated how this one girl, who was so athletic on the pole that at one point I literally broke out in spontaneous applause, was so open and honest about her motivation.

She would actually just look at you and say “money.” And I can respect that.
Prime Director
May 10th, 2015 @ 4:15 pm

Pbbbbtttt… smoke pot, read voraciously and dissociate.

Or don’t.

But don’t knock it :^)
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 10:50 pm

Gee, I thought they were taking their lead from the ComIntern! Oh wait. It’s the same thing these days!
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm

Steve Sailer calls it the circular firing squad.
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 11:03 pm

“Some girl goes strutting through the streets of New York City”
And of course what she was wearing had NO part in eliciting the catcalls.
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 11:06 pm

“anyone who is a net recipient of government benefits should not be given the vote.”
Damn Straight! I’ve recently come to that same conclusion.
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm

That’s right. Initiative, referendum and recall at the Federal, State and Local level. But it would have to be immune from Judicial review or else the Judges will just strike down whatever we vote for!
mitchell DAY
May 10th, 2015 @ 11:14 pm

Best line in a movie, EVER!
Daniel Freeman
May 11th, 2015 @ 12:53 am

And then issue a gag order on the people involved in the case, so that they could throw them in jail for contempt if they talked about it.
Robert What?
May 11th, 2015 @ 7:34 pm

To paraphrase the inimitable Mark Steyn: people who get most of their goodies at taxpayer expense inevitably vote themselves more goodies at taxpayer expense.
mitchell DAY
May 13th, 2015 @ 9:55 pm

Exactly.