"Co-Ed" Dorm Rooms
Sexuality
| April 3, 2008
| Tim
Michael Graham:
But liberal academics aren’t content with coupling. They’re demanding cohabitation to make their point that acknowledging gender differences is, in and of itself, a form of oppression.
What oppression, you ask? Who’s being harmed by a same-sex roommate policy, you wonder? Isn’t this just asking for trouble?
You, sir, are clearly demonstrating misogynist, crypto-fascist tendencies.
Either that, or you have a daughter in college.
To every self-described progressive who blames conservative talk show hosts for making “liberal” a dirty word, I refer you to this story. Liberalism isn’t the victim of the Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy. Its reputation has been ruined by its own loony adherents who promote ideas that fly in the face of common sense.
Hmmm, well that's two days after April 1st, so I'm going with, "No, it's real."
Anyone want to guess on the correlation between "co-ed" boarding and charges of rape? On the increase of morning after abortifacient pills given at the student center? Or the revenues of Planned Parenthood?
Truly you have to be very, um, educated to believe this crap. I wonder if a lobotomy is more efficient at producing this kind of stupidity.
Heather McDonald makes a similar point; campuses say they're endlessly worried about women being raped (or having any sex they later regret) -- and then do nothing to discourage binge drinking and "hookups". Indeed, one McDonald almost gives one the impression they love rape and regretted sex, as it gives them something to "help" and feel righteous about.
University of Virginia students, for example, have at least three different procedural channels open to them following carnal knowledge: they may demand a formal adjudication before the Sexual Assault Board; they can request a “Structured Meeting” with the Office of the Dean of Students by filing a formal complaint; or they can seek voluntary mediation. The Structured Meetings are presided over by the chair of the Sexual Assault Board, with assistance from another board member or senior staff of the Office of the Dean of Students. The Structured Meeting, according to the university, is an “opportunity for the complainant to confront the accused and communicate their feelings and perceptions regarding the incident, the impact of the incident and their wishes and expectations regarding protection in the future.” Mediation, on the other hand, “allows both you and the accused to discuss your respective understandings of the assault with the guidance of a trained professional,” says the school’s sexual-assault center.
Rarely have primal lust and carousing been more weirdly paired with their opposites. Out in the real world, people who regret a sexual coupling must work it out on their own...
Saying there are "mixed messages" here is an understatement:
Columbia University’s Go Ask Alice website illustrates the dilemma posed by a college’s simultaneous advocacy of “healthy sexuality” and of the “rape is everywhere” ideology.... As for rethinking whether she should be getting into bed with someone whom, Alice presumes, she would be reluctant to contact the next day, well, that never comes up. Members of the multifaceted campus sex bureaucracy never seem to consider the possibility that the libertinism that one administrative branch champions, and the sex that another branch portrays as rape, may be inextricably linked.
Create a crisis so you can solve it? Not conscious, but it certainly has that effect.
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Hmmm, well that's two days after April 1st, so I'm going with, "No, it's real."
Anyone want to guess on the correlation between "co-ed" boarding and charges of rape? On the increase of morning after abortifacient pills given at the student center? Or the revenues of Planned Parenthood?
Truly you have to be very, um, educated to believe this crap. I wonder if a lobotomy is more efficient at producing this kind of stupidity.
Posted by: Michael Zappe on April 3, 2008 11:32 AM