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My wife and I have different views of the discourse around the Cornell 7. I'm seeing people sympathizing with Jane Doe and declaring the "obvious" guilt of the men. I have major problems with this, because there's not nearly enough evidence that actually indicates the men are guilty.
My wife told me that she isn't seeing so much of randos casting their judgement on the case, but rather women sharing their own stories of times they felt taken advantage of or were sexually assaulted, etc. And she thinks that's important and valuable in it's own right. Essentially, whether or not the allegations are true, this has had an brought women together to share their stories in a moment of cultural solidarity.
Even if my wife is correct, and the women reacting to the news coverage weren't just declaring these men guilty based on their own feelings, I still have some issues with the notion that this discourse is positive in its own right, and I'm trying to put it in a lens my wife would understand. I don't really think that she and progressives would agree that discourse and people sharing their victimization stories is always a good thing. As one example, there are many stories in the UK and Europe about people being victimized by new waves of immigrants. But for alleged victims to share those stories in solidarity would (in most progressive minds) create hatred and bias people against immigrants as a whole.
So it's two things I think.
First the press and the left in general want to cast frats as the enemy caste. This has been going on for a long time, remember "A Rape on Campus" in Rolling Stone in 2014? It's very important for their coalition for young women to see frat boys as the dangerous enemy instead of desirable.
Next there's a big aspect of feeling that the woman wasn't treated as accorded to her by her station as a Cornell student. She's supposed to be in line to be part of the ruling class, someone should have stepped in to prevent her from making poor decisions. Of course girls are also allowed to do whatever they want. So it's the men's fault.
You're absolutely right, except it's even older than that.
This needs the Archer meme... "Do you want more Stephen Millers? This is how you get Stephen Millers."
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