re: The Alleged “Rape Culture”

Several years ago on one fine spring morning I noticed that a lot of the female students at my university were wearing t-shirts with “ONE IN FOUR” on the front in giant letters.  When I asked one of them what that meant, she told me that one in four female college students is sexually assaulted.  This seemed really bizarre, since I equated “sexual assault” with rape.   A fourth of my female students have been raped?! Then I looked into where the one-in-four statistic came from and, lo and behold, it came from some crazed left-wing, man-hating feminists who also claim that consensual marital sex is a form of “rape.”  They simply made the one-in-four statistic up.   For example, they had a very long list of actions that they claimed constituted “sexual assault.”  This included a female student sleeping with a male student after the male student bought her one drink during the evening.  Even if it was totally consensual, they said, it was still rape.  The definition did not apply, however, if it was the female student who paid for the drinks.

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