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Feminism’s Excuse Factory: Nikki Yovino, Title IX and False Rape Accusations

Posted on | July 17, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

Nikki Yovino was a student at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., last fall when she accused two of the university’s football players of raping her at a party. The football players both admitted they had sex with Yovino, but said it was consensual. Police say Yovino subsequently confessed she had fabricated the rape claim:

“She admitted that she made up the allegation of sexual assault against (the football players) because it was the first thing that came to mind and she didn’t want to lose (another male student) as a friend and potential boyfriend. She stated that she believed when (the other male student) heard the allegation it would make him angry and sympathetic to her,” the affidavit states.

Yovino, now 19, was charged with “charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. The tampering charge is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.” Last month, prosecutors offered her a plea bargain of two years in prison, followed by three years’ probation. In a court appearance Friday, however, Yovino blamed her crime on mental illness:

Nikki Yovino filed an application in court Friday saying she’s suffering from a psychiatric disability, The Connecticut Post reports.
The 19-year-old from South Setauket, New York, will undergo a psychological evaluation. A judge will decide whether she qualifies for a pretrial diversionary program. If she qualifies and completes that program she could have the charges dismissed.
Prosecutors say they’ll contest Yovino’s request. . . .

Yovino’s motive for lying — fear that she’d lose a prospective boyfriend if he found out about her romp with two football players — is reminiscent of the motive for the rape hoax at UVA, where Jackie Coakley tried to catfish a guy she liked by inventing “Haven Monahan.” Coakley’s dramatic fictional gang-rape at a frat house, a desperate attempt to gain sympathy, became a national story in 2014 amid the campus “rape culture” hysteria ginned up by the Obama administration and its feminist allies. A major factor in that hysteria was the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) using Title IX to threaten universities for allegedly failing to punish sexual assault. This witch-hunt frenzy resulted in male students being falsely accused of rape and denied their due-process rights in campus kangaroo-court disciplinary proceedings.

Since Trump’s election, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has sought to curtail the OCR’s witch-hunt, which Scott Greenfield says led to “flagrant discrimination against males” on campus. Feminists have demonized DeVos for trying to end this anti-male discrimination. DeVos was branded a “powerful handmaiden to a hegemonic white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy” by University of Kentucky lecturer Marta Mack-Washington. But the real problem on university campuses is not capitalism or patriarchy, it’s a culture of irresponsibility fueled by identity politics and “social justice” narratives of oppression and victimhood.

Nikki Yovino was caught lying because the day after she had sex with the football players, she went to a local hospital and, when she told medical personnel she’d been raped, they called in the police, whose investigation eventually exposed her deception. This is in stark contrast to the Title IX disciplinary proceedings where feminists believe accusations of sexual assault on campus (typically involving a “he-said/she-said” drunken hookup scenario) should be adjudicated. These campus procedures are deliberately slanted against male students (more than 100 of whom have filed lawsuits claiming they were falsely accused and denied their rights) because university administrators have accepted the feminist claim that false accusations are so rare as to be a negligible concern.

Professor Laura Kipnis caught a New York Times reporter misrepresenting the facts about false accusations. My friend Badger Pundit pointed out that alcohol is a major factor in campus sexual assault, and cited my 2015 blog post, “Why Do Drunk Sluts Get Drunk?” The point is that drunk people often do things they regret, and feminist “rape culture” discourse exploits these common feelings of morning-after remorse to convince teenage college girls that they are victims.

What were the consequences of Nikki Yovino’s lies?

Agustin Sevillano, the lawyer for the now-former football players, who are not being identified, described what his clients went through as a result of Yovino’s rape allegations. They were scheduled for a school disciplinary hearing but, on the advice of legal council, agreed instead to withdraw from the university rather than face the chance of being expelled and having that on their records. He said one of his clients lost a football scholarship. They have also had to live with the stigma of being accused rapists, he said.

All this, because she was afraid of what her potential boyfriend would think about her hooking up with two football players. And, by the way, I believe a Catholic school like Sacred Heart University has every right to punish students for sexual misbehavior, even if it was entirely consensual. Sin is still sin, after all, and lying is also a sin.



 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 7.17.17

Posted on | July 17, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 7.17.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Martin Landau & George Romero RIP
Twitchy: And Now For The Womens’ March Tweet-Storm, Er, “Brief Refresher”, Defending Assata Shakur
Louder With Crowder: Chuck Schumer In Panic Mode Over Kid Rock’s Senate Run


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Tesla Douchebag Extreme
American Power: Tucker Carlson Takes On Max Boot, also, Richard Overy, The Twilight Years
American Thinker: How The Left Hijacked The American Psychiatric Association And Normalized Mental Disorders
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “A Weaponized Race-Baiting Machine”
BLACKFIVE: Jeff Abbott, Blame
Da Tech Guy: (Baldilocks) Tribalism Watch, also, After 41 Years Da Tech Guy Is Done With Doctor Who
Don Surber: How Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, Looking Up From A Groove
The Geller Report: First Somali Muslim Police Officer In Minnesota Kills Blonde Yoga Instructor In Cold Blood, also, More Jihadi Violence In France – 900 Cars Burned, 13 Police Injured, “Several Episodes Of Urban Violence”
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Bank Fraud Bernie’s Wife Claims “Sexism” Is Cause Of FBI Investigation
Joe For America: Hobby Lobby To close All Stores, Founder Reveals Reason Why
JustOneMinute: From Fountainhead To Drainpipe
Power Line: Is Global Warming Alarmism A Complete Fraud? also, Junk Insurance Or Junk Reporting?
Shark Tank: America’s Health Care Problem Can’t Be Fixed Overnight
Shot In The Dark: When We Say The Roots Of “Gun Control” Are Racist…
STUMP: Here Comes The Junk – Hartford Downgraded, State Says Get It Together
The Political Hat: The Transgender Colonization Of Africa
This Ain’t Hell: Pilot Stuck In Tree For 70 Years, also, Damn Squids!
Weasel Zippers: “Russian Lobbyist” In Meeting With Trump Jr. Worked For Democrat Oppo Research Firm, also, Hungary Steps Up Fight Against George Soros
Megan McArdle: Taxing Hospitals Is A Lousy Way To Fix Health Care
Mark Steyn: Russians And Brazilians, also, Over There


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Stacy’s Cousin’s Medical Jingle

Posted on | July 17, 2017 | Comments Off on Stacy’s Cousin’s Medical Jingle

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

Rule 5 Sunday: Fast Cars & Fast Women

Posted on | July 16, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So here I was, sitting in the apartment on a Sunday afternoon, wondering what I was going to use as a topic this week, and I open the blog – and Smitty comes to my rescue! Chicks with turbos! I don’t know who this model is with the Ford GT40, but she definitely looks high speed and low drag.
Insert the standard disclaimer here – don’t click when you shouldn’t.

Ready to go

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff and the very flexible Russian First Lady, Alina Kabayeva. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule Five Message Discipline Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Pushing Rubber Downhill debuts with More Links, More Vids, And More Hawt Chicks.

EBL checks in with It’s A Good Day To Eat Ice Cream, Lady Godiva, Heidi McKinney, Cow Appreciation Day, Separated At Birth, National Macaroni & Cheese Day, This Is CNN: The Easily Confused Poppy Harlow, Where In The World Is Heidy Pandora?, Game Of Thrones Season Seven Cocktails, and Riot On Sunset Strip vs. Europe 2017.

A View From The Beach presents No More Ms. Nice Girl Says Sophie Turner, Reason #5606 That Trump Was Elected, Fish Pic Friday – Sheepshead, More Evidence of Russian Collusion, Tanlines Thursday, Way Back Wednesday, Pennsylvania to Ease Smallmouth Rules?, To Pose in Zanzibar and Why Would Anyone Ever Think This Was a Good Idea?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Pauley Perrette, his Vintage Babe is Amanda Blake, and Sex In Advertising is covered by Flirt Vodka. At Dustbury, it’s a pair of hot chanteuses: Reba McEntire and Linda Ronstadt.

Thanks to everyone for the lovely linkagery!

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Those ‘Turbo’ Thingies

Posted on | July 16, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Category: humor

FMJRA 2.0: Modern Love

Posted on | July 15, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: (Snap-On) Tool Time
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Mental Door
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.10.17
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 07.11.17
Proof Positive
EBL

The Third Law of SJW: VidCon 2017 and Anita Sarkeesian’s Paranoid Projection
Adam Piggott
EBL

Feminist Denounces Ivanka Trump as a Symbol of ‘Patriarchal’ Authority
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 07.12.17
Proof Positive
EBL

It All Comes Back to Hungary: Soros, Cultural Marxism, Lukacs and Bela Kun
Adam Piggott
EBL

Columbia University Settles Lawsuit in Infamous ‘Mattress Girl’ Case
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.13.17
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach

Feminist Motherhood Advice (and Other Reasons to Avoid Jody Allard)
Welcome To My Playpen
EBL
Adam Piggott

In The Mailbox: 07.14.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (10)
  2. Proof Positive (6)

We also had a couple of near misses. Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 07.14.17

Posted on | July 14, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.14.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jody Allard – Accused Of Abandoning Animals, Psychologically Abusing Her Own Sons
Twitchy: Dems’ “End of Dress Code” Celebration Accidentally Tramples Nancy Pelosi
Louder With Crowder: Louder With Crowder #196 – Net Neutrality Sucks! – With Ben Shapiro & Cassie Jaye
According To Hoyt: (Jeb Kinnison) On Net Neutrality
Monster Hunter Nation: Update Post – Grunge With The Wrong Spine, Etc.
Vox Popoli: Expel Your SJWs


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: More Links, More Vids, And More Hawt Chicks
American Power: Eric Raymond On Gramscian Damage, also, Gordon Craig, Germany: 1866-1945
American Thinker: Media, Dems Ignore Hillary/Ukraine Collusion
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Message Discipline Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 14
Da Tech Guy: (Fausta) The Western Canon As Guerrilla Reading
Don Surber: Snopes Sticks Up for President Trump
Dustbury: Tidy Profit Turned
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Over 150 Christian Churches Plundered, Destroyed By Muslims In Kosovo
Hogewash: LOLSuit VIII News, also, A Non-Hearing
Joe For America: Fed Up Cop Tells Anti-Cop, Celebrity Crowd Off, Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons
JustOneMinute: Coming To Terminate You, also, Sarah Palin Can Sue The Times For This Too
Power Line: Democrats Vs. Trump: The New Meaning Of Treason
Shark Tank: Democratic Hypocrisy On Display In Election Collusion Scandal
Shot In The Dark: I’m Done Pretending To Call This Sort Of Feminism Anything Other Than Child Abuse
STUMP: Illinois Quick Take – Gas Taxes
The Jawa Report: Libya Update – Still FUBAR, also, Meanwhile At Zion
The Political Hat: ACLU Versus Hyperintelligent Bees
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Morning Feel Good Stories, also, 75-Foot Pistol Shot
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Claims Military-Paid Transgender Surgery Necessary For National Security, also, Two Teenagers Arrested In London Acid Attacks
Megan McArdle: Summer Treats That Blend Sour And Sweet
Mark Steyn: Chancers And Honeytraps, also, When The Insurance Is The Catastrophe


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Feminist Motherhood Advice (and Other Reasons to Avoid Jody Allard)

Posted on | July 14, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

Jody Allard is a feminist and a bad person, but I repeat myself. Last fall, Ms. Allard gained notoriety when she published a Washington Post column about “rape culture” that targeted her own teenage sons:

They’ve been listening to me talk about consent, misogyny and rape culture since they were tweens. They listened to me then, but they are 16 and 18 now and they roll their eyes and argue when I talk to them about sexism and misogyny.
“There’s no such thing as rape culture,” my other son said. “You say everything is about rape culture or sexism.”
I never imagined I would raise boys who would become men like these. Men who deny rape culture, or who turn a blind eye to sexism.

This provoked a memorable headline at Ace of Spades HQ:

Amazing: Angry, Bent Feminist Shames Her Own Sons
as Being Insufficiently “Anti-Rape” Despite
One of Her Sons Being at Risk For Suicide

Instapundit called Ms. Allard’s column “media-based child abuse,” and you might suppose that a sense of human decency would have caused her to avoid causing further embarrassment for her sons, but if she had any sense of human decency, she wouldn’t be a feminist, would she?

 

Last week, Jody Allard continued her anti-male jihad, this time in the form of recounting the reaction to her column last September:

I didn’t think it would be controversial when I wrote it; I was sure most parents grappled with raising sons in the midst of rape culture. The struggle I wrote about was universal, I thought, but I was wrong. My essay went semi-viral, and for the first time my sons encountered my words about them on their friends’ phones, their teachers’ computers, and even overheard them discussed by strangers on a crowded metro bus. . . .
One of my sons was hurt by my words, although he’s never told me so. He doesn’t understand why I lumped him and his brother together in my essay. He sees himself as the “good” one, the one who is sensitive and thoughtful, and who listens instead of reacts. He doesn’t understand that even quiet misogyny is misogyny, and that not all sexists sound like Twitter trolls. He is angry at me now, although he won’t admit that either, and his anger led him to conservative websites and YouTube channels; places where he can surround himself with righteous indignation against feminists, and tell himself it’s ungrateful women like me who are the problem. . . .

In other words, her son has taken the Red Pill, and it was the experience of being publicly humiliated by his own mother that led him to it.

Way to go, feminist mom!

Not content with this predictable failure (and let’s not forget her lack of basic human decency), Ms. Allard extends her indictment to all men:

As a single mother, I sometimes wonder whether the real problem is that my sons have no role models for the type of men I hope they become. But when I look around at the men I know, I’m not sure a male partner would fill that hole. Where are these men who are enlightened but not arrogant? Who are feminists without self-congratulation? . . .
If the feminist men — the men who proudly declare their progressive politics and their fight for equality — aren’t safe, then what man is? No man, I fear.

We may notice, en passant, that Ms. Allard uses the adjective “feminist” as though it were a synonym for good. That is to say, in her mind, words like “feminist,” “progressive” and “equality” express the summum bonum, the highest moral ideal, the essence of all virtue. Most parents might hope their sons would grow up to be hard-working, honest, courteous and so forth, but such ordinary common-sense virtues are worthless in the eyes of a fanatic like Jody Allard. The only measure of virtue she recognizes is feminism, so unless her sons are whatever she conceives a “feminist man” should be — “enlightened but not arrogant” — she regards her teenage boys as the enemy, an existential menace.

As interesting as that is, however, more important is Ms. Allard’s description of herself as “a single mother.” Elsewhere, she explains that she has seven children and has been divorced three times:

My first husband and I got married pretty much entirely because we were both Catholic, and I got pregnant. Oops. I was madly in love with my second husband, but that ended. For my third try at marriage, I married a much older man whom I met at work and trusted would take care of me and my kids, but that didn’t work either. Yikes.
Needless to say, after three excruciating forays into marriage, I have no desire to get married again. In fact, when I left my last husband, I decided to stay single until I got my life together. I’m not sure how long I expected that to take, but I definitely didn’t anticipate still being totally and completely single five years later.

There are clues here, my friends. Husband No. 2 was her favorite, “but that ended,” she says without explanation, leaving us to wonder why, whereas she has written extensively of Husband No. 3, whom she labels an emotionally abusive narcissist. Also, apparently Husband No. 3 cheated on her with a woman “frizzy hair and skin covered in acne.”

Jody Allard is now 38 years old and, to judge from her own writing, her entire adult life has been an unbroken series of bad decisions. Anyone may peruse the archives of her writing at contently.com and evaluate her fitness to provide others with advice on parenting (or anything else).

Ms. Allard’s writing represents an expression of the feminist slogan, “The personal is political.” She recounts her failed marriages as a way of establishing her status as a victim of male oppression. If such personal revelations also support the conclusion that Ms. Allard is emotionally disturbed and/or lacking sound judgment, this self-inflicted damage to her reputation is acceptable as necessary to advancing the feminist cause. As I have observed about young feminists on Tumblr, “Like Catholicism, feminism turns confession into a sacred ritual, so that the feminist obtains a kind of holiness by telling her inmost secrets and desires.”

Beyond the blessings of confessional holiness, Ms. Allard says she has spent five years in therapy “recovering from complex trauma”:

I suffer from PTSD-like symptoms as a result of both individual isolated childhood traumas and the relentless experience of growing up in an abusive home. It has only been in the last few months that I have begun to recognize that I simply do not know how to nurture anyone, much less myself. I ache and yearn deep inside for the experience of being nurtured, and I’ve spent my adulthood looking for a mother. And as much as that has hurt me, I fear that it has hurt my children, too.
I began my personal journey in therapy almost five years ago. In the beginning, I thought that I needed help communicating with my then-husband. I thought that I could fix what was wrong with me and proceed through my life without so much as a single scar. I thought that I could do anything and be anything, and that my past didn’t define me. My life was my own, and I was determined to conquer it.
Therapy led me somewhere entirely different. In therapy, I finally recognized the failures of my relationships that had nothing to do with me. I learned to stop taking on the pain of others and to establish healthy boundaries.

Let us briefly note three points:

  1. Feminists and the psychotherapy establishment have, in recent decades, reached a consensus that millions of women suffer from the effects of emotional “trauma” akin to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Of course, PTSD originated as a diagnosis of the psychiatric problems of U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War, so that feminism now teaches women that their misfortunes are as “traumatic” as the experience of Marines who survived the siege of Khe Sanh or POWs tortured in the Hanoi Hilton.
  2. We need not doubt Ms. Allard’s description of her childhood as “abusive” in order to be skeptical of her claim that this experience has been the source of all her problems in life as an adult. She has written about her biological father, who allegedly abused her, although she has no memory of him, and hasn’t seen him since she was 5. Ms. Allard is also estranged from her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken since 2012.
  3. The effect of her therapy, Ms. Allard says, has been her discovery that she is not responsible for the failures of her relationships. Evidently, everybody she has ever known is toxic and dysfunctional, and she alone is without fault, a martyred saint suffering for the sins of others.

Therapy is to the 21st-century woman what church was to her grandmother. Psychology offers a sort of secular salvation, whereby patients are absolved of responsibility for their faults and failures.

“[T]herapeutic morality encourages a permanent suspension of the moral sense. There is a close connection, in turn, between the erosion of moral responsibility and the waning capacity for self-help . . . between the elimination of culpability and the elimination of competence.”
– Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

Lasch’s analysis of the effect of “therapeutic morality” was published the same year that Jody Allard was born. The Culture of Narcissism was a national bestseller, and Lasch was credited for his prophetic insight as the 1980s became known as “The Me Decade.” Yet it is apparent that Ms. Allard has never bothered to read Lasch, or else she might be cognizant of Lasch’s critique of feminism, in a chapter titled “The Flight From Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War.” Feminism is part of the larger cultural problem, and not a solution. While I will not bother the reader with a psychology lecture, the key point is that pathological narcissism is not mere arrogance or ordinary selfishness. Rather, narcissism involves a process of rationalization — excuse-making — in an attempt to protect the damaged ego from a sense of shame. One of the ways this is done is by blame-shifting and scapegoating, so that the narcissist never has to admit fault or accept responsibility for his own failures and shortcomings. The narcissist may become a cunning sociopath, but this scapegoating tendency may also result in paranoia, as I explained in a 2010 column, “Whatever Happened to Crazy?”

Attempting to comfort people by flattering their sense of blamelessness — ‘It’s not your fault’ — therapeutic morality ultimately undermines the vital sense of agency, in effect telling people that they are neither culpable nor competent. It promotes the notion of innocent victimhood, the blameless self, and encourages people to avoid responsibility for their failures by wallowing in self-pitying rationalizations.”

In order to become responsible adults, we must learn to accept blame for our own failures and must resist the temptation to self-pity and scapegoating. The intelligent reader can see how feminism, which tells women that patriarchy is to blame for all their problems, thereby offers them a permanent exemption from personal responsibility.

Here, then, we find Jody Allard proclaiming that all males (including her own teenage sons) are complicit in “rape culture,” a paranoid conspiracy theory that views every manifestation of male heterosexuality as a potential threat of violence from which no woman is safe. When her sons (quite naturally) protest against this insulting anti-male rhetoric, Ms. Allard responds by turning their claims of innocence into proof of guilt: To deny blame for “rape culture” is . . . rape culture.

Good luck trying to use facts and logic with Jody Allard. She is engaged in a tactic known as “kafkatrapping,” where the accuser claims to know that the accused is guilty of ThoughtCrime — racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. — and denial of guilt is treated as evidence of guilt.

Speaking of which, is Ms. Allard still abusing helpless animals? According to a 2013 report, she was accused of adopting and then “dumping” pets:

Allard often attains animals on Craiglist and other online groups, gets bored within a couple of months, and dumps them a couple of months later.  Victims have included dogs, cats, chickens and at least one rabbit.

Allegedly, I hasten to add, because I cannot verify such an accusation, and don’t know if Ms. Allard has denied these animal-abuse charges. But considering how she treats her own sons . . .

Professor Glenn Reynolds comments on Jody Allard:

You think men are bad because you make bad decisions. You let yourself off the hook for those because “empowerment,” but you judge your sons with microscopic harshness. You lead a life that ensures your sons will have no close positive role models. Angry feminist single moms, I suspect, are disproportionately the mothers of the alt-right.

Did you know Washington State has a toll-free 24/7 child abuse hotline?



 

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