The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 12, 2015 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

Redlight Mind

“And I followed her to the station with her suitcase in my hand. Well, it’s hard to tell, it’s hard to tell. . .when all your love’s in vain. All my love’s in vain.
When the train rolled up to the station. . .I looked her in the eye. Well, I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome. . .and I could not help but cry.
When the train, it left the station with two lights on behind
. . .well, the blue light was my blues. . .and the red light was my mind. All my love’s in vain.”

via Darleen

Bonus:

[I’ve always loved the delicate minimalism of this tune. Keb Mo’s recording of the Robert Johnson masterpiece is true to the emotion, and a clean recording. I certainly won’t be trumping the emotion on display anytime soon.]

Category: Friday Fiction

Rapists Everywhere (1-in-5)

Posted on | June 9, 2015 | 122 Comments

St. Mary’s College of California is a private school where annual tuition is $41,380, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Of the 3,055 students who attend Saint Mary’s, 41% are male and 59% are female. As an exercise in understanding the “campus rape epidemic” that feminists assure us is a nationwide scourge, let’s apply the notorious 1-in-5 statistic to Saint Mary’s.

By my calculation (59% of 3,055) there are 1,802 females enrolled at Saint Mary’s. The 1-in-5 number means that 20% of these (360) will have been raped by a fellow student before they graduate. This in turn would mean that, if we suppose that about a quarter of the female students graduate each year, then there are approximately 450 females in the senior class, of whom 90 are rape victims.

Could this be true? Well, in September 2011, police investigated two separate rapes reported by Saint Mary’s students in the span of two weeks. The college’s Student Coalition Against Rape (“a peer education and outreach team that is dedicated to ending gender based violence”) clearly have their work cut out for them, battling the pro-rape coalition on campus. Women students at Saint Mary’s who are victimized by male student predators can call a 24-hour Campus Assault Resources and Empowerment (CARE) telephone hotline.

About 10 victims a month or two a week during a nine-month school year because, of course: 1-in-5.

It seems shocking that parents would spend more than $40,000 a year to send their daughters to a place where rape is so common. However, I guess the parents who spend more than $40,000 a year to send their sons to Saint Mary’s must figure that’s just one of the benefits provided by this Catholic private school.

SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE
Raping Your Daughters Since 1863

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

Heh. Heh. Heh.

Posted on | June 9, 2015 | 28 Comments

One of my favorite lines in Ghostbusters:

Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.

The insulation of the academic cocoon has been thinning for some years now, and what Professor Glenn Reynolds calls The Higher Education Bubble may not yet be bursting, but it seems to have stopped expanding. A left-wing journalist at CounterPunch laments the darkening prospects for the radical intelligentsia:

There are still plenty of left-leaning professors in U.S. colleges and universities. But as an employment sector, higher education has changed. There are now powerful conservatizing trends afoot that will likely lead to the extinction of professors as a left force in U.S. society within a few decades.
One major change is that the expanding academic job market that Jacoby observed is now shrinking. When the market for professors was growing, as it was in the 1960s and 1970s, radicals could get jobs in universities, earn tenure, and do critical intellectual work, even if it was often muted by a desire for conventional academic rewards. Today, tenure-track jobs are fewer and farther between. In response to reduced budgets and out of a desire for a more “flexible” — that is, cheap, pliable, and disposable — labor force, university administrators have cut tenure-track lines, preferring to hire faculty on a temporary, part-time, non-tenure-track basis.
This tightening of the academic job market has intensified competition for the tenure-track jobs that remain. Under these conditions, it is prudent — as each new cohort of graduate students discovers—to focus one’s efforts on publishing in academic journals and avoid rocking any boats, in print or in the classroom. Graduate students are advised that Facebook pages and Tweets should be crafted with the concerns of prospective employers in mind. Anticipation of a competitive job market thus begins to conservatize students early in their graduate careers. . . .
Although all faculty are supposed to enjoy academic freedom, contingent faculty whose writing or teaching causes trouble are easily dismissed. A contract is simply not renewed, or a department chair says, “Sorry, we have no sections for you to teach,” and that’s the end of the matter. . . . Then there is the practical matter of how much research and writing one can do while trying to piece together a living by teaching four or more courses per semester, often at exploitively low wages.

Welcome to the real world, you degenerate Bolshevik subversives!

 

Category: Education, Intellectuals

Rebutting The Anonymous Lickspittle

Posted on | June 8, 2015 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Let’s be clear, you silly twerp,
That your sins are yours alone.
Accidents of genes and birth,

Should by no means give you groan.
Talent’s not a source of hurt,
Unless buried, bringing wrath.

As the parable makes known,
The Lord’s given simple math.
Doubling, we must be alert

For how we may add real worth,
To that He deigned us to loan,
Lest He tend toward the curt,

Past our time upon the Earth,
Whether mansioned or in yurt.
Ending abed? Via drone?

The point is to keep it pert:
Reject the rational dearth,
The Commies have always shown,

Or sound some man-gina derp,
As your article did moan,
Making manhood sound a curse.

–CLS 08Jun2015

via Instapundit and Conor of the Lone N

Category: Culture

Rule 5 Sunday: Welcome To Las Vegas

Posted on | June 7, 2015 | 24 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, after a week of late-night driving, a busted water pump, and way too many hamburgers, I have arrived in my new home of Las Vegas, where I’m holed up at the Plaza Hotel & Casino until I can sign a lease on something more permanent. Once that happens and all my stuff gets unloaded, it’ll be back to the usual routine of daily Live at Five posts, weekly book posts, and occasionally other stuff in addition to the weekend linkagery. Speaking of which, to introduce this week’s assortment of attractive young ladies, here’s one of the dealer/dancers from the Golden Nugget across the street.

One of the reasons Fremont Street is worth visiting:
a different kind of bar girl.

As usual, many of the following links are to pictures normally considered NSFW. Do we really have to remind you to exercise discretion when you click?

This week Goodstuff leads off with Emily Ratajkowski – for SCIENCE! Ninety Miles from Tyranny follows with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; we also heard from Animal Magnetism, who had the first annual Rule 5 Commencement Speech and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week included the obligatory Bruce Jenner meme, Faces of Evil, Wildling, Nancy Sinatra, and Pitch Perfect 2.

Wine Women and Politics returned with Babe of the Day, Asstastic, Friday Corsets, Thursday Hot Babe Gallery, and a pair of nice ones.

A View from the Beach has Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, I’m so Disappointed with Kate Upton, Can Dirty Cars Save the Bay?, About That Picture…, Is Alzheimer’s A Side Effect of Human Intelligence? (cave girls), Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword, It’s An Ill Wind, “Buy Me a Boat”, TV Star Threatens Peeping Toms, Cops Called…, “Easy Like Sunday Morning” and Clinton.com – A “Model” Charity.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s the usual coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer, Salty Dawg, Tuesday Titillation Metal Fatigue, Humpday Hawtness Kelly Monaco, Stocking Stuffer, Falconsword Fursday Furlette, Corset Friday Late Edition, T-GIF Friday Classic Luxury Ride, Evening Awesome With Fur Finery, Weekender Think Pink, and Bath Night Bounce.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Michele Rodriguez, his Vintage Babe is Claire Kelly, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Heidi Klum. Also, The Women of PETA XLIII! At Dustbury, it’s Telma Hopkins and Amal Clooney.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, June 12.

Visit Amazon’s Intimate Apparel Shop

Category: Rule 5

‘We Need to Get Him Off the Internet’

Posted on | June 7, 2015 | 245 Comments

Remember Lilly the Human Train Wreck, the mentally ill feminist Tumblr blogger who filed a federal complaint against her university? She did not like being quoted on my blog:

Check it out. He “wrote an article” on me. He victim blames me the entire time. He hates that I am bi. He thinks I’m insane since I have mental illnesses.
We need to get him off the internet.
https://twitter.com/rsmccain This is his twitter.
Please report him for harassing me!!! And report other abusive things he says to or about other people.

I’m “harassing” her? By quoting her?

Lilly: You’re living inside a bubble, an ideological echo chamber. Being surrounded by like-minded idiots is not therapeutic.

UPDATE: Lilly’s supporters are, quite literally, hysterical:

Reading his article sent me into a panic attack . . . He has NO. FUCKING. RIGHT. I can’t even handle that people like that are out there. I honestly just don’t even want to stick around in a life that has people like him. I am so sorry you are having to deal with this.

They don’t even want to live in the same world with me.

UPDATE II: Wisdom from Gunga in the comments below:

It’s kinda funny how nothing quite makes these special snowflakes as bunny-boiling mad as quoting their own words. On the other hand, ‘People quoting me accurately makes me so angry,’ does seem like something a mentally ill person might say.

The thing is, feminism is a No-Judgment Zone. This was one of the principles of feminist “consciousness-raising” back in the 1960s and ’70s: “Everybody share their private experiences and innermost feelings, because sisterhood is powerful. And no judgment, ever.” What nobody warned them is that this is a technique of brainwashing and mind-control, used by religious cults and totalitarian movements as a way of forming a collectivist mentality by breaking down the individual personality. The leaders and facilitators of this process (the people who organized “consciousness raising” back in the day, and who now teach Women’s Studies classes) understand what they are doing, whereas the typical college kid is not sophisticated enough to realize what is happening or why it is happening. Once a vulnerable person is exposed to that kind psychological indoctrination, they are induced to see the surrounding world as hostile and oppressive. This suspicious attitude toward “society” fosters a sort of paranoia, and the only secure refuge from such psychic pain is among fellow True Believers.

This is why feminists freak out when you quote their words in a critical context. They have been taught to fear common sense.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Just an Incredible Amount of Misogyny’

Posted on | June 7, 2015 | 50 Comments

David Pakman (@dpakman) is the kind of Marxist subversive who hates God even more than he hates America. That is to say, he’s a Democrat. The controversial Pakman hosts a weekly radio/TV/podcast affiliated with the Marxist subversive Pacifica Radio network. Last month, Pakman interviewed Mark Potok, a leading official of an infamous anti-American terrorist group, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(Why should we let the SPLC monopolize this cheap tactic of smearing political opponents by slapping pejorative “hate” labels on them?)

The subject of this interview was Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs), a featured topic in the Spring 2012 issue of the SPLC’s magazine Intelligence Report. With a listing of Internet locations that included everything from pickup artist (PUA) sites to Reddit forums, the article suggested MRAs were a serious danger:

It’s not much of a surprise that significant numbers of men in Western societies feel threatened by dramatic changes in their roles and that of the family in recent decades. Similar backlashes, after all, came in response to the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, and other major societal revolutions. What is something of a shock is the verbal and physical violence of that reaction.

Really? The fact that the SPLC’s scaremongering coincided with the Obama re-election campaign’s “Republican War on Women” attack against Mitt Romney was a major clue to their political agenda. Yet few seem to recognize the connection between the Democrat Party’s electoral strategy and the recent resurgence of radical feminism. Because there is no reason to believe that “male supremacy” has become more oppressive in the past decade, we must suppose there must be some other motive for this renewed radicalism. When you realize that (a) Obama won re-election in 2012 with the widest “gender gap” ever recorded by Gallup, and (b) Hillary Clinton is the likely Democrat Party nominee for president in 2016, you must perceive the effort to gain a partisan advantage for Democrats as the most likely cause of this otherwise inexplicable surge of feminist activism. It’s not a conspiracy, just divide-and-conquer identity politics as usual for Democrats.

So when David Pakman interviewed the SPLC’s Mark Potok about the Men’s Rights movement, Potok confessed:

Well, to be honest, I was fairly oblivious to this whole world until we got a tip about a couple of websites that we began to look at. And it very quickly became apparent that there was a whole world of these websites; uh, as I say, the so-called man-o-sphere. Uh, these were websites that purported to be part of the Men’s Rights or Father’s Rights movement, which has some legitimate beefs, I think. But when you went in and started to look at what was actually on the sites, it was just an incredible amount of misogyny, an incredible amount of defamation of women. Uh, you know, one of the themes that runs through all of those websites, or certainly the vast majority of them, is the idea that women routinely lie about rape: that they claim they were raped in order to destroy men, to get advantages over men, and so on.

Hey, the SPLC just “got a tip” and suddenly discovered “an incredible amount of misogyny” on the Internet, which they never noticed, say, in 2008, when liberals were calling Sarah Palin the vilest things imaginable?

Coincidence.

The dishonest hypocrisy of the SPLC is exceeded only by the dishonesty of their patented “links-and-ties” method of creating the artificial appearance of connections between persons and organizations which are not actually connected. For example, what is the connection between the 2011 suicide of James Ball (the lead “atrocity” cited in the SPLC article) and a PUA forum like Roosh V (featured in the SPLC’s listing of “manosphere” sites)? The answer: None whatsoever. And yet in order to create the appearance of large, scary, violent “War on Women” movement, the SPLC implied that there was such a connection.

Manufacturing non-existent dangers is an SPLC specialty, and Potok did not disappoint Pakman’s audience in this regard:

Uh, but let me say, first of all, that the real violence directed against women began, in a sense, in 1989, at an engineering school in Montreal, where a particular guy, Marc Lepine, murdered, if I remember, sixteen women: lined them up in a classroom and murdered them because they were engineers, they were the first engineering class at that University that had accepted women. And Lepine wrote explicity about how feminists have destroyed my life, and now I’m going to destroy their lives. Since then, we’ve seen a series of massacres, mass murders, directed at women.
The latest, of course, was last May in Santa Barbara, California, when a young guy named Elliot Rodger went on a rampage and murdered six people before killing himself. And this was all because, as he said, he was still a virgin at 22, he felt that beautiful blonde women owed him sex, and so on, and so on, and so on; he left a manifesto, a video manifesto.
So, what I’m saying is, yes, there has been this underlying, really, rage-filled reaction towards women for a good thirty years or so, now.

Yes, the underlying rage-filled reaction that connects a 1989 event in Canada with a 2014 event in California is part of “a series of massacres, mass murders, directed at women” — except that Potok can’t even name a single example of this “series” that supposedly connects these two events, 25 years apart. If Elliot Rodger was a “copycat killer” inspired by Marc Lepine, he was the only such imitator. Yet, despite what Potok implies, there is zero evidence that Elliot Rodger ever heard of Marc Lepine. Here, go do a word-search on Elliot Rodger’s 141-page manifesto. Marc Lepine isn’t mentioned. Guess what else isn’t mentioned? Feminism.

The words “feminist” and “feminism” appear nowhere in Elliot Rodger’s manifesto because his massacre had nothing to do with feminism. Rodger’s rage wasn’t political, it was personal. The loser couldn’t get laid, and this was his revenge. As for the feminist claim that Rodger was influenced by “men’s rights,” I explained on my blog in May 2014:

The focus on “pickup artist” (PUA) culture as an influence on Rodger is probably misguided. As his manifesto makes clear, the Creepy Little Weirdo had been overwhelmed by resentment and a sense of failure since he was in middle school, and he didn’t start ranting on PUA forums until after he had already decided on his “Day of Retribution.” So he acquired from PUA culture a jargon (“Alpha males,” etc.) but this was not the source of his anger, nor did it exercise a determining influence on his actions.

The image of Elliot Rodger created by media myth-makers was a feminist fabrication. Crazy is not a political philosophy.

Hyping hate in order to exploit fear is the SPLC’s raison d’être, but it’s not as if feminists need more reason to hate and fear men.

(Hat-tip: A Voice for Men; thanks to @Synthovine for the transcript.)





 

Category: Sex Trouble

Feminist Tumblr: Human Train Wreck Offers Online ‘Support’ to ‘Survivors’

Posted on | June 7, 2015 | 145 Comments

Maybe somebody should start a Tumblr blog called “Getting S**tfaced Drunk at College Parties Is Probably a Bad Idea,” because that’s the kind of advice Lilly at “Survivor Support” needed before she went to college. However, such advice is what we call “common sense,” and Lilly calls herself a feminist, so what’s the use? Feminists hate common sense.

Lilly is taking legal action against Pace University:

Pace University forced the victim of an alleged sexual assault into an investigation, found the alleged rapist not responsible without saying why, and then attempted to require both students to attend a program on alcohol and date rape, a complaint filed with the Education Department claims.
The student who filed the complaint, and who asked to remain anonymous due to the private nature of her experience, received word in July that the department’s Office for Civil Rights would look into her grievance. . . .
The Pace student said she had no intention of reporting the Feb. 14, 2014, incident, but did disclose it to a doctor at the New York university’s health center on Feb. 27 when she went to get tested for sexually transmitted infections. The doctor fetched another colleague, who agreed they needed to inform campus security, who would in turn have to start an investigation, the student said.
“I said I don’t want an investigation, don’t want the police involved at all, don’t want an in-school investigation, but they told me it had to happen,” the student said to The Huffington Post. “I did not want to report my rapist, because it is a very miserable and tedious process in which the victim rarely gets justice.” . . .
After Pace University staff talked to the student in an exam room for two hours — she didn’t feel she could leave — the student agreed to cooperate, figuring that if it had to happen, the investigation might as well be done right, according to the complaint. She submitted a written account of her version of events the following day, and the university issued a no-contact order between the two students involved. . . .
On March 31, Marijo Russell-O’Grady, Pace’s dean of students, told the reported victim and the accused assailant that the school was dropping the charges, according to a copy of the decision letter obtained by HuffPost. The reported victim said she never received an explanation why the school was finding him not responsible. Pace did determine that both students should be required to attend training on alcohol and substance abuse and on date rape.

The extra-judicial process for dealing with sexual assault cases involving college and university students is, on the one hand, required as a consequence of federal policy and yet is, on the other hand, a huge part of the problem that feminists have spent months protesting about, i.e., so-called “rape culture” on campus.

DON’T GET S**TFACED DRUNK AT COLLEGE PARTIES

Does that advice need a “Trigger Warning”? Perhaps it is traumatic to college girls who, despite solid GPAs in high school and high SAT scores, are nevertheless too stupid to understand why college guys want to get college girls drunk. Do I need to draw you a diagram, ladies? Whatever else is going on at these parties, sex is certainly near the top of the list of desired outcomes, so if you don’t want to have sex, don’t go to the party. However, if you choose to ignore that advice, and go to the party even though you don’t want to have sex, there are all kinds of common-sense strategies that smart girls use to avoid misfortune. On the other hand, if you’re a feminist, common sense doesn’t matter, and offering smart advice is “blaming the victim.” So . . . Trigger Warning!

Lilly’s Tumblr blog “Survivor Support” may not offer smart advice, but it does give us insight into what kind of hopeless idiots are being admitted to college nowadays. From Lilly’s “About Me” page:

My name is Lilly and I am 23 years old. I went to college at Susquehanna University for 2 years in nowheresville Pennsylvania. The school was not a good fit for me at all, because I really didn’t like the students or the location. In addition to the school not being a good fit, I was raped three times during my freshman year there.

(Raped three times during your freshman year? How does that happen? We’ll get to that part, but for now keep reading.)

I developed PTSD… and I abused alcohol. My therapist once asked me if I tried to kill myself with alcohol when I told her how much I could drink in a night. I also started self harming. . . .
During my sophomore year, on February 24th, 2012, my older brother died. He had been very ill for about 12 years. He overdosed. He was 26.
I decided to go back to school to finish up the semester after my brother’s death. It was really difficult. My PTSD was through the roof and I was mourning. I was also really suicidal and depressed. . . . I barely did manage to finish the semester. But I did.
Over the summer of 2012, I was hospitalized twice for my depression and suicidal ideation. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, receiving ECT (shock treatment). I dropped out of college. I took a year off to recover.

(Shock treatment? Six weeks in a psych ward?)

I then transferred to a college in NYC called Pace University. I was having a very difficult time making friends and was very depressed the entire time I was there. I was raped again on Valentines Day, 2014. The school forced me into an investigation that I did not want. My anxiety, depression, PTSD was just awful. I wanted to drop out of school and not finish the semester. . . .
I decided to leave Pace after the semester ended. I am now at another small school in NYC. I study photography and sociology.
I am currently suing Pace University for the forced, botched, and very illegal investigation. My rapist graduated.
Pace University tried to silence me, but I refuse to be silenced. . . .
I am also a very outspoken feminist. I am very liberal. And very political.
I currently suffer from major atypical depression, chronic suicidal thoughts, general anxiety disorder, complex PTSD, and complicated grief. . . .
And I fear men. I actually believe that I am more gay than I used to be. I was bi-leaning-straight, but now I’m bi-leaning-gay. At this point in my life, I cannot handle college. I fear college. So I am taking time off once again.
I am a survivor of harassment, abuse, assault, and rape. I created this blog to help create some form of a community. I wanted to prove to you that you are not alone.

In other words, “You think your life sucks? Ha!” However crazy you may be, Lilly’s much crazier. So there’s that.

Lilly has a page called “My Stories,” but instead of putting the stories in text form, she has uploaded them as images, and I’ll save you time by summarizing these stories briefly.

  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER ONE — Her childhood sucked. When she was 8 years old, her brother developed a serious illness, which was very stressful on her family. Her mother and father fought a lot, sometimes violently, and her father had an affair with a former college girlfriend.
  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER TWO — Her adolescence sucked. She fell in love with Sam in sixth grade, but he rejected her. She contemplated suicide. Beginning in her freshman year of high school, Lilly was “involved with other boys, and girls,” but by senior year, she renewed her romance with Sam. She “almost lost [her] virginity” to Sam, but meanwhile, she found out Sam was “hooking up” with her friend Steven, as well as “seeing other girls.” She “kept asking him if he was gay.” Much drama ensued.
  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER THREE — Her freshman year at Susquehanna sucked. At the start, she met a guy named Brian. They hung out and “fooled around,” but Brian “had a girlfriend . . . and refused to have sex with me, even though I wanted to lose my virginity to him.” So then she started dating Larry, even though Larry “wasn’t really [her] type.” One Friday night in November, she went to a party: “I wanted to get drunk.” Larry was at the party with another girl. After she “had about 4 drinks,” Lilly started dancing with “a tall skinny black guy” named Jeremiah who “was very drunk.” They started kissing, because Lilly “wanted to make Larry jealous.” She told Jeremiah she “was a virgin” and “did not want to have sex that night.” However, they went to Jeremiah’s place, where he took off her pants and digitally penetrated her. “I was fine with this,” Lilly said, “but then all of a sudden” he inserted his penis into her vagina. Sexual intercourse was very painful. Jeremiah kept trying to contact Lilly afterwards, but she was not interested.
  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER FOUR — She was drunk at a frat party and danced with a drunk guy who groped her.
  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER FIVE — At a party, she got “completely wasted” from vodka and “jungle juice” and was dancing with a bunch of guys. She dry-humped a “nice boy” on the couch “in front of everybody.” After the party, Lilly and her friends went “back to the dorms to smoke weed.” She had a very unpleasant sexual experience with a “random guy” named Eric. It was so bad she “actually had to ice my vagina for three days.” Months later, Lilly decided that what happened with Eric was actually rape.
  • LILLY’S STORY NUMBER SIX — This is the Pace University rape story. On the night of Feb. 14, 2014, Lilly drank “the majority of a bottle of rum, roughly about 8 vodka shots, a cosmo on the rocks, and a few cups of white wine.” She was with a guy named Rainer, and they “kissed on and off during the night.” She was “heavily intoxicated” and her memory is “foggy,” but she ended up in the dorm bathroom, where Rainer expected her to perform oral sex on him. She complied, but it wasn’t very good for either of them. At a later point, she blacked out and “the rape happened sometime before 3:30 AM on the 15th.” Lilly woke up with “vaginal pain and a a hickey on [her] right breast.”

What can we say of this tale of endless woe? Are these guys — Jeremiah, Eric and Rainer — all equally guilty of rape?

No, none of them are guilty of anything, because you can’t convict somebody of rape merely on the basis of what a drunk girl said happened while she was “completely wasted” or “heavily intoxicated.” If you asked Jeremiah, Eric and Rainer, each would have his own story of innocence to tell and so, without any other evidence, not guilty. Case dismissed.

When drunk college girls and drunk college boys get together, situations like this inevitably occur. What are you going to do? Do we expect that Eric — who saw Lilly dry-humping a guy on the sofa in front of everybody at a party — is going to treat Lilly with courtesy and respect? Shouldn’t we point out also that (a) college freshmen are underage for drinking and (b) they were also illegally using marijuana? “Hey, let’s completely rearrange the world to make it safe for drunk teenage dopeheads,” said no sane person ever.

Let the feminists call me a slut-shamer and a victim-blamer for asking, but does Lilly bear no responsibility at all?

Think about what Lilly says happened with Jeremiah. She seems to have been rather desperate to lose her virginity. She nearly got her high-school crush Sam to do the honors, but no luck there. Then she went to college and wanted Brian to deflower her, but he turned her down. She was willing to settle for Larry, but he showed up at the party with another girl, so Lilly danced with Jeremiah, then went back to his place where she took off her pants and was willing to have Jeremiah do everything to her except vaginal intercourse. Lilly was drunk and naked with a stranger — she had never met Jeremiah before that night — and anybody with ordinary common sense would say that this was a very bad decision.

Ordinary common sense seems to be quite rare on college campuses nowadays, however, and you’ll be called a “rape apologist” if you warn teenage college girls against very bad decisions.

DON’T GET S**TFACED DRUNK AT COLLEGE PARTIES

And since Lilly raises the issue of her sexuality — formerly “bi-leaning-straight, but now . . . bi-leaning-gay” — can we be honest and say she is just lonely, confused and pathetic?

Look, you don’t need a “sexuality.” You need love.

You don’t need an unrealistic crush on a guy who doesn’t reciprocate your feelings. You need to have some sense of your own human dignity. You need to get your act together, and stop being so emotionally needy that you’re willing to do anything just to have a guy (or girl) pay attention to you. In short, you need to grow the hell up and at least attempt to conduct yourself like a responsible adult.

Feminist Tumblr is never going to give you that kind of advice, and that’s a huge problem. It seems that young people believe that the only place to get advice is from their peers, including basket cases like Lilly at “Survivor Support.” Never listen to successful grown-ups! Listen to Feminist Tumblr! Because feminists on Tumblr know everything!

Follow their directions closely, kids. Because the one thing feminists on Tumblr know best is the shortest route to Hell.

UPDATE: A predictable reaction:

‘We Need to Get Him Off the Internet’

Feminism tells them that they are never responsible for anything. Therefore, feminists require a scapegoat to shoulder the blame. And what the heck, why not me? Let them screech all they want at me.





 

Category: Sex Trouble
« go back — keep looking »