July 15, 2014
While it is theoretically possible to kill a man with a rolled up newspaper, Morgan’s Post piece won”t prevent a single future rape. Neither will that quilt. Both are exercises in sterile, busywork narcissism. George Will (also writing in WaPo) was right: the left’s priority is the valorization of past-tense victims, both real and imaginary. They”re applying Cloward-Piven to sex crimes.
Our final flip through the Post brings us to a dispatch from a “men’s rights” conference at the end of June. Remarks made there by another of my countrywomen, National Post columnist Barbara Kay, were picked up widely:
Ordinary people know the vast majority of women crying rape on campus are actually expressing buyer’s remorse from alcohol-fueled promiscuous behavior involving murky consent on both sides.
Indeed, during my fifty years on this planet (and contrary to that long-debunked “one-in-four” stat) I”ve had a grand total of three women tell me they”d been raped. In each case, they knew their attacker (if not well), a party was underway, and alcohol was involved. (During my drinking days, I couldn”t even get picked up in a bar at closing time, but no matter…)
I met the first of these females when I was still in high school. One of the girls I worked with behind a movie theater popcorn counter told us about a particularly harrowing date she”d been on.
“So I guess you could more or less say I was raped,” she concluded.
We were all horrified. What did she do?, we asked.
“Oh, don”t worry,” she chirped. “When we went out on our next date, I didn”t speak to him once.”
