The Anti-Male Craziness at Yale

Link: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2013/09/another_anti-male_move_at_yale.html (via shareaholic.com)

What is "nonconsensual sex"? Rape, right? Not at Yale, where the term can be applied to a variety of acts generally accepted as minor offenses or non-offenses in the real world. Since 2010 Yale has become the national center of efforts to whittle away the due process rights of students accused of sexual assault in campus hearings. Those efforts, undertaken to appease "activists" who want more males convicted in campus proceedings, have included Orwellian word games to expand the definition of rape. One of the first signs that this was happening came in 2011, when Yale concluded that causing someone to worry could come under the heading of sexual assault. In a footnote in a lengthy 2012 report on this new process, issued by deputy provost Stephanie Spangler, Yale conceded that the university uses "a more expansive definition of sexual assault than is commonly understood." Claiming that a "worry" constitutes sexual assault is expansive indeed.

This issue, alas, seems unlikely to be explored by the Yale Daily News. Campus newspapers can play an important role in standing up for students' rights--an excellent example is the Duke Chronicle, whose coverage of the lacrosse case was consistently on-target, and whose articles and editorials demonstrated an impressive mastery of the importance of due process.

The Yale Daily News, unfortunately, doesn't appear up to the task. In an editorial last Friday, the paper complained of the "University's ineffective and embarrassing response to sexual violence, as we learned that those guilty of sexual assault remain on our campus." Had the editors actually read any of the Spangler reports, or Yale's own policies, and discovered that at Yale, being found "guilty of sexual assault" doesn't mean the same thing that it does anyplace else in New Haven?

The editorial asserted that "the preferred punishment for nonconsensual sex at Yale must be expulsion." Again, keep in mind that Yale's definition of "intimate partner violence" includes threatening your roommate with "economic abuse." The "preferred punishment" for such an offense, according to the student newspaper, "must be expulsion." Expulsion for withholding money from a girlfriend or causing her worry? That ought to satisfy the "activists."

From the comments:

the solution, Yalies (and at many other liberal campus locations) is not to date the women there. Don't speak to them, don't look at them. Leave the room when they come in, if possible.
Make the femenazis and their collaborators own it.

Posted by garrett | September 11, 2013 1:26 PM

Posted on September 11, 2013 13:26

Bill Lawrence:

What happens when men give up on Yale? Do we lose out on some career advantage or does Yale stop being taken seriously as an institution?

Posted by Bill Lawrence | September 11, 2013 1:58 PM