CAMPUS SEX Assault: An Epidemic of Absurdity
In its effort to present a balanced portrayal of the presumed sexual assault epidemic on American college campuses, Sky News traveled to Ohio, home to several large universities and a huge student population, to find out more. There are few things women want to talk about more than themselves and their victimhood. It’s all the rage. And what they said is what makes this article inadvertently interesting, particularly about how the mix of alcohol and risk-taking makes them vulnerable, and why consent is nowhere near as straightforward as it should be.
Student Shelby Ebert said: “I think the biggest problem we have on campus is drinking too much and having sex, and then you’re like ‘oh, I probably shouldn’t have done that’, you know? And then you’re like ‘do you consent when you’re drunk’? Is that consent?”
This is what passes for sexual assault, rape, in the minds of some. It’s as if they weren’t there, had nothing to do with it. They didn’t choose to drink. They didn’t agree to have sex. It all just happened to them, and the next day they got a Mulligan on personal responsibility, and a second chance to decide whether the consent of the night before was still consent in the light of day. Rape and sexual assaults are serious offenses, crimes, but the epidemic on campus has nothing to do with rape or sexual assault. It has to do with women asserting their agency to go out and have a good time, and then revisit it the next day where they can choose to absolve themselves from all responsibility for their active choices and turn their good time into the victimhood. There is nothing wrong with a woman choosing to have sex. But if you decide the next day (or year) it wasn’t your best choice, that doesn’t make the guy a rapist.
blog.simplejustice.us By Scott H. Greenfield
