Saturday, July 02, 2016

'Rape culture hysteria' is based on a 'Big Lie' that qualifies as hate speech

'Rape culture hysteria' is based on a 'Big Lie' that qualifies as hate speech: BOOK REVIEW - The College Fix:
"You don’t get funding with the 1-in-50 statistic
“There is no rape culture in North America.”
Thus begins a book by a self-described rape survivor who seeks to expose the “rape culture hysteria that is not based on evidence, statistics or reason.”
Wendy McElroy released the first print edition of Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women last month.
It was published as an ebook in April.
Calling herself an individualist feminist, the anarchist and co-founder of The Voluntaryist is no stranger to controversy.
Just days before Rolling Stone published its now-debunked article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, McElroy debated the feminist Jessica Valenti at Brown University on “rape culture.”
The event prompted Brown President Christina Paxson to schedule a competing event so students could learn about the “facts” of sexual assault.
Paxson sent a campuswide email letting everyone know she disagreed with McElroy, who says she was raped as a teenager.
McElroy leaves no stone unturned in her quest to debunk the myths surrounding today’s debates on sexual assault, from the very idea of rape culture to particular manifestations such as the widely cited statistic that 1 in 5 women are raped in college.
...Proponents of the idea of rape culture stick with unsupportable statistics because it advances their agenda and sounds more horrifying than more reliable estimates, McElroy says:
They “repeat the 1-in-4 or 1-in-5 statistic as a mantra because 1-in-50 is 10 times less effective in achieving their goals and maintaining funding...”

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