Campus Feminists and the Rape Shortage

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More than 17,000 students attend the University at Albany-SUNY. Feminists insist that 1-in-5 college women are victims of rape on campus, and this statistic presents a bit of a problem for Carol Stenger, director of the university’s Advocacy Center for Sexual Assault. Last year there were only 28 reports of sexual assault at SUNY-Albany and it doesn’t require advanced math skills to realize that 28-in-17,000 is a long way from 1-in-5. This didn’t seem to faze Ms. Stenger, who spoke of the need to “increase reporting” of sexual assault and declared: “We know the national statistics. It’s happening everywhere.”

Is it really “happening”? Is there a “campus rape epidemic” to such an extent that 1-in-5 college women are victimized? If so, then we would expect that the sexual assault “awareness” efforts of feminists, augmented by the enforcement authority of the federal Department of Education and a White House Task Force, would bring these cases to light and confirm those “national statistics” of which Ms. Stenger spoke. The reports at SUNY-Albany are clearly insufficient, as Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner explains:

There weren’t the thousands of reports that Stenger seems to want in order to fall in line with debunked national statistics (the claim that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college), either.
In the past year, Albany had 28 reports of sexual assault, twice as many as it had before Stenger opened her advocacy center. . . .
For the record, those 28 reports don’t break down to what alarmist national statistics say they should.
“Nine of them were from students who asked the university not to take action. Six resulted in disciplinary proceedings that led to two student expulsions and one persona non grata order against a nonstudent,” the [Albany, N.Y.] Times Union reported. “Six were from third parties (when reached, the alleged victims either denied any violence occurred or declined to speak). Four involved assailants whose identities were unknown. Three were outside the university’s jurisdiction.”

In other words, Ms. Stenger’s official “advocacy” resulted in a doubling in the number of sexual assault reports, but only five of those 28 reports (18%) warranted disciplinary proceedings against students, with a sixth disciplinary case involving a non-student. SUNY-Albany expelled exactly two students, out of a total campus population of more than 17,000, for sexual misconduct. Certainly, the situation at SUNY-Albany does not confirm feminist claims of a “campus rape epidemic” victimizing 1-of-5 female students, nor can any college or university in the country produce such documented confirmation.

Feminists invented a non-existent “crisis” for political reasons — perhaps hoping to use these claims to generate campus support for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign — and are now confronted with an absence of proof. Those who have exaggerated the prevalence of sexual assault to create a fictitious “campus rape epidemic” have also inspired journalists to begin scrutinizing the actual number of reported assaults. What if more newspaper reporters began asking the kinds of questions Bethany Bump of the Albany Times-Union asked Carol Stenger?

What if reporters began filing Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain documents from state university officials that would allow some realistic estimation of the actual rate of sexual assault on campus? We are beginning to see a trickle of reporting like that, and how long before the journalistic trickle becomes a factual flood that washes away this “rape epidemic” myth created by feminist fearmongers?

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  1. Hmmm. If over 50% of college students are women/girls…does math in head…that would mean over 1,600 instances of rape happened on SUNY Albany campus last year. I wonder what could be keeping all these victims from reporting this heinous crime? Could it be because the 1 in 5 number is a figment of a sick imaginative mind- I think so.

  3. Heteronormative patriarchal oppression prevents the reporting. I’m shocked you don’t seem to know this.

  4. Don’t you get it? For Carol Stenger, only 28 reported assaults means that her job is on the line. With an average of just 3½ cases per month of the academic year, fewer than one a week, just what does the lovely Mrs Stenger do with all of the rest of her time? She is full time at a part time job, and that has to be worrisome.

  5. Of course, she’s also a “sexuality counselor.” How amazing it is that so many of us made it through college without the need of a professional counselor to tell us to whom we were attracted.

    Then again, maybe if our esteemed host had the benefit of a sexuality counselor, he could have begotten nine kids!

  6. Has anyone asked Carol Stenger if she was raped as a student? After all, there’s a 1 in 5 chance she was. If she says she was not raped can she supply the names of college friends who were raped. After all, at least 1 in 5 of her friends were raped. Has the SUNY Albany alumni association polled their members for numbers of rapes? Has anyone polled the SUNY Albany faculty for their rape experiences? After all, 1 in 5 of them were either raped themselves or committed rape.

  7. That logo behind Carol Stenger reminds me of the poster for The Ring (2002)
    ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDA2NTg2NjE4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjYxMDg5._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

    good representation of feminism…

    imgur.com/zzOHjMy.gif

  8. My sincerest apologies for not denoucing myself in advance for my patriarchal privilege… and the fact that I can do simple math.

  10. Not to worry. Soon, we’ll hear that Ms. Teriba identifies as “white” and “male,” thereby reestablishing order in the evil patriarchal Universe.

  11. Oh, you needn’t worry: she was a victim, period, and that’s why she understands other victims.

    That she may have been a victim only in her imagination makes her no less a victim, you h8ful h8ey h8er, you.

  12. Lem’s Levity had this joke today:

    A guy was walking to a bar and on his way he found a girl tied up to the railroad tracks. He untied her and they had sex. Guy gets to the bar, friends ask why he’s so late, tells them about the girl he found and all the different positions they [engaged in sex] in. Friends give him props and ask if he got head, guy replies “I couldn’t find it.”

  13. N.B. the symbolic circle and inverted cross as part of her profile. That’s what we in the legal biz call, “Plaintiff’s Exhibit One” in the federal trial wherein she has to answer for denying due process rights to accused males.

    “So, Ms. Stenger, are males not entitled to ‘sexuality counseling’ in our taxpayer funded sinecure? Are males never the victims of sexual crime in your universe? Does that symbol express the ‘inclusiveness’ and ‘diversity’ which this university touts in its sales brochures trying to get impressionable high school students’ parents to pony up huge sums to send their kids–some of whom are presumably male–to your august institution of higher learning?”

  15. We know the national statistics. Its happening everywhere

    How do you know the statistics are reliable? Do you endorse the methodology? Do you recognize its limits?

    BTW, is there a genuinely feminist approach to epistemology? Be explicit, heh

  21. Carol Stenger is a feminist. And an employee of the education system. Ergo, she’s a victim.

    Get with the program, sir!

  22. Actually, it really is: consent is a social construct, and if consent is not a consideration, then rape is simply sexual intercourse. The social construct that the feminists are trying to change is what constitutes consent and who actually initiates the mating ritual.

  24. I can’t imagine living in a leftist head!

    “1 in 5 women is raped!”

    “The planet is going to fry!”

    “Heterosexuality is unnatural!”

    What a collection of bizarre perspectives.

    And don’t ever forget: They booed God at the Democratic convention. So add to the list: “I’m going to die and there’s nothing after.”

    I don’t know how they manage to slog through the day.

  26. Yep this is just “make work” nonsense. Her I’ll have been lobbying for this nonsense for decades (women’s “health” centers, sexual assault services etc..)She really gets paid to do nothing but whine. Her position should not exist in a sane society.

  28. I can only assume that all college-age women and their parents are fully aware that statistic is bogus. If it were actually true, no woman in their right mind would go to college.

  32. Stenger is right. I remember that when I was in college my friends and I used to rape several women on the way to classes every day.

  35. Notice how she submitted herself to the law of the Inquisition rather than actual law. Gee, a terrible price. I hope her confession leads to her prosecution under real law, not feminist bullshit.

  36. Nope. According to the bullshit statistic, one in five women will experience rape in college, but not every year. An average college degree takes 6 years according to the first hit on a quick google search, so it would be 1/5*1/6*8500 (give or take), or ~283 rape cases per year. That’s still a far cry from what is actually happening, though.

  39. And I’m not too fond of homos either…what do ya call that? ( Except for my daughter.)

    And I denounce myself again. 😉

  40. That’s on Mondays. On Tuesdays, she’s a Muslim man who self-identifys as a physically abused burqa-wearing transexual Muslim woman, during which time she’s forced to beat herself with a stick. On Wednesdays, just to be different, she’s a feminist rape advocate and sexuality counselor, masquerading as a self-loathing white woman. Then on Thursdays…

  41. In a supremacist doctrine, you rape one, you rape them all. Similiarly, that’s how all men are the beneficiaries of rape.

  44. for these feminist centers taking statistics just one phone call of a woman saying she got raped by an air conditioning means 1 case, now you see why their numbers are bullshit.

  46. Perhaps we are reading the stats a little differently. My reading is that every year, 1 in 5 women will be raped.

    So according to my calculations, it is possible that any one woman could possibly be raped multiple times in her 6 year college career.

    ( Multiple times meaning more than once.)

    Of course, my major in my short lived college career was in English, not Math. 😉

  48. The funny thing is their bogus casualty rate is still far below serving in the 8th Air Force or an armored tank division in WW II, a thing men did and women never have. I’ll start believing feminists when they use their fierceness to occupy draft offices and not take “no” for an answer, a thing they’ll never do because they are pansies.

  49. Then……multiply this by the number of Universities/Colleges in the US (4706)….then multiply this by lets say at LEAST $200k a year (with other staff and benefits etc…included)…and we get $941 million….
    So we have AT LEAST $1 BILLION a year spent on the Campus Rape Industrial Complex…not small change!

  50. She is a victim because she is a woman who has been opprosed by the patriarchy all her life but you woudn’t understand JEFF since you’ve been filled with white male priviledge since birth. (You don’t have a picture so i’m just going to assume you’re a white male and hence a supremacist, racist, mysoginist bigot hater.)

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