A good article, but it doesn't really hammer home what is going on here. Patriarchy and victimization are the foundations of feminism. In a society where the wage gap, glass ceiling and other feminist discrimination myths have been so thoroughly debunked, rape culture is about all they have left, and they cling to it desperately. Without it, feminism is on the verge of irrelevance, and that is very bad news for lots of members of the gov-edu-union-contractor-grantee-MSM complex who make their living on feminism and got advantaged in life via discriminatory affirmative action. They must make a crime that occurs under 200,000 times a year in a country of 300,000,000, and is perpetrated by only a fraction of 1% of men into a "social cause" and "focus of victimization." They don't care at all that this is zero sum, and that for every illicit step of progress they make, someone suffers unjustly.
So they lobby on rape culture, and lobby and lobby and lobby. It starts with the professors (who have the clearest conflict of interest imaginable, their paycheck depends on it... AND THEY ARE THE ONES DOING THE STUDIES... imagine a "study" by the "motor oil council" suggesting that you change your oil every 1000 miles, credible? this is not one bit different), into the feminist campus groups, fools some young, naive people in the center, and then percolates like raw sewage from a busted line out into MSM and pop culture. The immorality of feminism, and leftist politics generally, is that just like riots in Ferguson, the left has NO CONCERN WHATSOEVER for the morality of what they are doing. If men end up in jail for things they didn't do, they don't give two sh-ts, as the OP quote makes quite clear. Imagine a man making a statement that ANYONE seeking legal counsel when accused of a crime was displaying an entitled attitude. What kind of HUGE AHOLE would such a person be? How would media treat such a person? Yet because... woman, we accept such outrageous, self-absorbed statements in public from women and feminists and crickets chirp.The effect is that the President of the US is forwarding totally BOGUS hackademic survey studies as fact from the Oval Office in efforts to preserve and appease the Democrats' most crucial voting bloc, young, unmarried women, where they get a huge skew in election after election. The DOE is in on the canard with its threats to withhold education funds.
Folks here should realize that it affects you, even though you aren't a college student, even though you are older. When feminists are permitted to control the frame with their liestats, it affects every one of us. Any man on this forum could be accused tomorrow and have the "1 in 4, 1 in 5" lying nonsense taint your jury pool, taint law enforcement in a domestic dispute, taint the women you date, endanger your sons, your family and friends' sons. It's gotten to the point to where no one can claim "what's the big fuss about feminism? I don't see how it affects me."
This isn't all they are lobbying for. Every time an infrastructure spending bill is brought, every time some stimulus is proposed to aid still devastated industries that mostly employ men, feminists step in, and due to their voting clout, inevitably derail a huge chunk of any such spending to what they call "women friendly jobs," which means BUREAUCRAT jobs, where women have an overwhelming majority. So our stimulus is NOT building bridges and roads or helping the construction industry, but hiring more PERMANENT SOCIAL WORKERS and FAT ASS GOVT DO NOTHING EMPLOYEES, sitting in front of a terminal all day blathering out liestats like "1 in 4," "1 in 5" instead of working.
The statement in the article that less women suffer sexual abuse on campus than elsewhere is accurate. The feminists, mostly white middle class, don't want you to ever find out that most of the "rape culture" they complain about is in cities, not college campuses. The "epidemic" of sexual abuse on campus is a pure lie, is not happening anywhere. Don't believe it, but do believe that every time those lies are repeated, YOUR life or someone's life you know is affected.
