Ms. magazine, in what I can only assume is either a pathetic attempt to garner controversy and clicks or earnest belief in easily refuted nonsense, has seriously equated
organized ISIS rape and the modern American college campus.
While ISIS endorses sexual assault, American college administrations
similarly facilitate and perpetuate the rape of women on campuses.
Sexual violence becomes institutionalized through complicity. Recently
published survey results show that as many as one in four women experience sexual assault on U.S. college campuses.
The American Association of Universities surveyed 150,000 students at
27 colleges and universities in the spring of 2015. More than 27 percent
of female college seniors reported that, since entering college, they
had experienced some kind of unwanted sexual contact. Nearly half of
those, 13.5 percent, had experienced penetration, attempted penetration
or unwanted oral sex. A significant percentage of students say they did
not report because they were “…embarrassed, ashamed or that it would be
too emotionally difficult” or “…did not think anything would be done
about it.”
As ever,
Coyote Blog's rejoinder to this idiocy is entirely sound:
Imagine that there is a country with a one in 20 chance of an American
woman visiting getting raped. How many parents would yank their
daughters from any school trip headed for that country -- a lot of them,
I would imagine. If there were a one in five chance? No one would
allow their little girls to go. I promise. I am a dad, I know.
No, they wouldn't. As for
Ms., my general inclination is that they have the same background problems all print publications do, i.e. real distribution costs, falling revenues in the face of essentially infinite competition for ad space, and declining readership, in addition to the specific problem of an apparently
declining population who self-identify as feminists.
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