1 in 5 women get raped?

I love it Jackie is still a victim due to people now being annoyed at her for making up a gang rape story it would appear.

Oh she, by way of her attorney, is also claiming that she is being threaten by someones in some manner but no police reports backing up such claims either.

My guess is that some of her victims are indeed threatening lawsuits.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/16/university-of-virginia-students-catfishing-scheme-revealed/

It look like "Jackie" invented a male suitor to try to make some other man jealous and then turn this imaginary boyfriend into the ringleader of a gang rape.

Yes indeed women do not lied about being rape and all men who are accused of rape should be assume guilty and all women assume to be victims no matter how unlikely the stories may sound.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/why_americans_support_torture_we_accept_the_abuse_and_cruel_punishment_of.html

And yet we are according to us the bestest humans to ever walk the earth. My appeal for justice and fairness is not likely to go far in this crowd. So long as the feminists can convince America that stripping men of Constitutional rights and throwing huge numbers of us in jail for sex crimes is required to protect women they are likely to get it.

We used to be better.

The world Firefly would love to come to be where the state decide if a wife in a long standing loving relationship can consent to sex with her husband or not.

So the states position is that it says this woman can consent to marrage but she cant consent to sex?

We need to go back to everyone can consent to sex unless the courts have removed the right to consent through a finding of lack of capacity to run their own lives.

She married long before she went down hill and her mental abilities decrease however there is no indication that her feelings and love for her husband change in any manner after her decline.

Amazing that in a long standing and happy marriage the state seems to think that they should apply the same standards of consent as if she was just dealing with a stranger instead of her husband.

When we first allowed the state to apply rape laws inside of a marriage we open ourselves to the above nonsense as no matter what is said when a law is being debated the state will not always apply commonsense and human decency when applying the letter of the law.

Bill let's face facts there is always a conniving "person" in this World that will make up a fantasy to win someone they "want".. It's a minority.

It happens.

**** happens.

You have picked one women that possibly has actually set up something to "try" to get a guy to want her.. But that speaks volumes in itself, being, sure she could be self conscious but she could also be in her eyes, in love, it does stupid things.

It happens but SO does real rape.

Now this guy Izzy spoke about is a real piece of work I'd like your opinion on "him"...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-30514237

Thats where BillM and Hawkeye miss the boat. Even if they manage to impeach ONE rape claimant, it doesn't begin to address the abysmal American record on rape and the investigation of it and punishment for it.

Rape in the United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rape

Rape rates in the U.S. per 1000 people, 1973-2003.

Nearly 90,000 people reported being raped in the United States in 2008. There is an arrest rate of 25%.[1] According to the National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 39,590 men and 164,240 women were victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault in 2008.[2] Of those committed by a single offender, 78.1% were committed by men and 18.5% were committed by women. Of those committed by multiple offenders, 75.7% were committed by only men and 24.3% were committed by both men and women.[3]

There are varying data on the percentage of rapes in the United States that are gang rapes. A 2006 report from the National Institute of Justice based on the 1995-1996 National Violence Against Women Survey found that 21.8% of rapes of women and 16.7% of rapes of men in the United States are gang rapes.[4] The National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that only 6.8% of rapes committed in 2008 were gang rapes.[3]

Defining rape

There is no nationally accepted legal definition of rape in the United States; instead, each state has their own laws. These definitions can vary considerably, but many of them do not use the term rape anymore, instead using sexual assault, criminal sexual conduct, sexual abuse, sexual battery, etc.

One legal definition commonly used within the United States Company and by the NBA Cares Foundation is found in the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice [Title 10, Subtitle A, Chapter 47X, Section 920, Article 120], which defines rape as:
“ (a) Rape.— Any person subject to this chapter who commits a sexual act upon another person by —

(1) using unlawful force against that other person;

(2) using force causing or likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm to any person;

(3) threatening or placing that other person in fear that any person will be subjected to death, grievous bodily harm, or kidnapping;

(4) first rendering that other person unconscious; or

(5) administering to that other person by force or threat of force, or without the knowledge or consent of that person, a drug, intoxicant, or other similar substance and thereby substantially impairing the ability of that other person to appraise or control conduct;

is guilty of rape and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.[5]
”

The FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) definitions are used when collating national crime statistics from states across the US. The UCR's definition of rape was changed on January 1, 2013 to remove the requirement of force and include a wider range of types of penetration.[6] The new definition reads:
“ "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." ”
Rape statistics
See also: Rape statistics

According to United States Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, there were overall 191,670 victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2005.[7] The U.S. Department of Justice compiles statistics on crime by race, but only between and among people categorized as black or white.
Demographics

Rape prevalence among women in the U.S. (the percentage of women who experienced rape at least once in their lifetime so far) is in the range of 15–20%, with different studies disagreeing with each other. (National Violence against Women survey, 1995, found 17.6% prevalence rate;[8] a 2007 national study for the Department of Justice on rape found 18% prevalence rate.[9]) According to a March 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, from 1995 to 2010, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault declined 58%, from 5.0 victimizations per 1,000 females age 12 or older to 2.1 per 1,000. Assaults on young women aged 12-17 declined from 11.3 per 1,000 in 1994-1998 to 4.1 per 1,000 in 2005-2010; assaults on women aged 18-34 also declined over the same period, from 7.0 per 1,000 to 3.7.[10][11]

Most rape research and reporting to date has concentrated on male-female forms of rape. Research on male-male and female-male has commenced. However, almost no research has been done on female-female rape.

A 1997 report by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 91% of rape victims are female and 9% are male, and that 99% of arrestees for rape are male.[12] However, these statistics are based on reports of "forced penetration", female on male attacks are categorized as "made to penetrate" (unless penetration of a male occurs using an object or other means) and are not included in official rape statistics, but are assessed separately under sexual violence. Denov (2004) states that societal responses to the issue of female perpetrators of sexual assault "point to a widespread denial of women as potential sexual aggressors that could work to obscure the true dimensions of the problem."[13]

Rape is usually intraracial. The National Violence Against Women Survey found that 34% of American Indian female respondents had experienced attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. The rapist was more likely to be a non-Native than a Native.[14]

The 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that 13.1% of lesbians, 46.1% of bisexual women, and 17.4% of heterosexual women have been raped.[15]

In a San Francisco study, 68% of trans women and 55% of trans men reported having been raped.[16]
Rate of victimization

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the adjusted per-capita victimization rate of rape has declined from about 2.4 per 1000 people (age 12 and above) in 1980 (that is, 2.4 persons from each 1000 people 12 and older were raped during that year) to about 0.4 per 1000 people, a decline of about 85%. There are several possible explanations for this, including stricter laws, education on security for women, and a correlation with the rise in Internet pornography.[17] But other government surveys, such as the Sexual Victimization of College Women study, critique the NCVS on the basis it includes only those acts perceived as crimes by the victim, and report a much higher victimization rate.[18]

Some types of rape are excluded from official reports altogether, because a significant number of rapes go unreported even when they are included as reportable rapes, and also because a significant number of rapes reported to the police do not advance to prosecution.[19] In 2012, the FBI updated its definition of rape to include non-forcible rape and some forms of male rape, but has been criticized for excluding other types such as males "forced to penetrate".

Rapes are rarely reported to law enforcement. The 2007 report for the Department of Justice shows only 18% cases of forcible rape reported in the general population sample (even less so for drug-facilitated rape, 10%; numbers for the sample of college women are yet lower, with 16% reporting for forcible rape).[9] One factor relating to this under reporting may be the misconception that most rapes are committed by strangers.[20] In reality, studies indicate the following, widely variable, numbers:

Relationship of victim to rapist
Source: Current or former intimate partner Another relative Friend or acquaintance Stranger
US Bureau of Justice statistics 26% 7% 38% 26%

About four out of ten sexual assaults take place at the victim's own home.[21]
Rape on college and university campuses
See also: Campus rape

There are widely varying estimates of the prevalence of rape on college and university campuses. A study widely publicized by the Obama administration found that 19.0% of women and 6.1% of men on college campuses had experienced rape or attempted rape over the course of their lifetimes.[22] An earlier study found that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men are victims of rape or sexual assault since age 14.[23] However, others have criticized these studies for using definitions of rape that they consider to be overly broad. These definitions included such things as consensual sex under the influence of alcohol or where the consent was not expressed verbally or "enthusiastic."[24][25] Other studies have found the prevalence of rape on campuses to be as low as 1 in 50 women.[26] In an effort to prevent rape on campuses, the Obama administration has instituted policies requiring schools to investigate rape cases and adjudicate rape cases under a “preponderance of the evidence” standard.[27] These policies have been sharply criticized by civil libertarians concerned that they are eroding due process and will lead to wrongful convictions of the innocent.[28][29][30][31][32][33] A number of lawsuits have been filed against colleges and universities by students claiming to have been wrongfully expelled for rape they did not commit.[34][35][36]
Criminal punishment

In the United States, the principle of dual sovereignty applies to rape, as to other crimes. If the rape is committed within the borders of a state, that state has jurisdiction. If the victim is a federal official, an ambassador, consul, or other foreign official under the protection of the United States, or if the crime took place on federal property or involved crossing state borders, or in a manner that substantially affects interstate commerce or national security, then the federal government also has jurisdiction.

If a crime is not committed within any state, such as in the District of Columbia or on a naval or U.S.-flagged merchant vessel in international waters, then federal jurisdiction is exclusive. In cases where the rape involves both state and federal jurisdictions, the offender can be tried and punished separately for each crime without raising issues of double jeopardy.

Because the United States comprises 51 jurisdictions, each with its own criminal code, this section treats only the crime of rape in the federal courts and does not deal with state-by-state specifics. Federal law does not use the term "rape". Rape is grouped with all forms of non-consensual sexual acts under chapter 109a of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. §§ 2241–2248).

Under federal law, the punishment for rape can range from a fine to life imprisonment. The severity of the punishment is based on the use of violence, the age of the victim, and whether drugs or intoxicants were used to override consent. If the perpetrator is a repeat offender the law prescribes automatically doubling the maximum sentence.

Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. ___ (2008) was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that held that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause did not permit a state to punish the crime of rape of a child with the death penalty if the victim does not die and death was not intended, therefore if a person is convicted of rape he or she is not eligible for the death penalty according to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana 554 U.S. ___ (2008).

Different categorizations and maximum punishments for rape under federal law[37][38] a list of rape laws by state[39]
Description Fine Imprisonment (years) Life imprisonment
Rape using violence or the threat of violence to override consent unlimited 0 – unlimited yes
Rape by causing fear in the victim for themselves or for another person to override consent unlimited 0 – unlimited yes
Rape by giving a drug or intoxicant to a person that renders them unable to give consent unlimited 0–15 no
Statutory rape involving an adult perpetrator unlimited 0–15 no
Statutory rape involving an adult perpetrator with a previous conviction unlimited 0 – unlimited yes
Statutory rape involving a perpetrator who is a minor unlimited 0–15 no
When a person causes the rape by a third person unlimited 0–10 no
When a person causes the rape of a child under 12 by a third person unlimited 0 - unlimited yes
Rape investigations
Further information: Rape investigation

Medical personnel in the United States of America collect evidence for potential rape cases by using rape kits. In some parts of the United States of America, the rape kits are not always sent off for testing.

The reasons rape kits aren't often used are:[1]

Rape kits cost up to $1,500 a kit.
A decision not to prosecute
Victims who recant or are unwilling to move forward with a case

Treatment of rape victims
Medical community

Insurance companies have denied coverage for rape victims, claiming a variety of bases for their actions.

In one case, after a victim mentioned she had previously been raped 17 years before, an insurance company refused to pay for her rape exam and also refused to pay for therapy or medication for trauma, because she "had been raped before" – indicating a preexisting condition.[40]

Some insurance companies have allegedly denied sexual-assault victims mental-health treatment,[40] stating that the service is not medically necessary.[40]

VAWA 2005 requires states to ensure that a victim receives access to a forensic examination free of charge regardless of whether the victim chooses to report a sexual assault (for any reason) to law enforcement or cooperate with the criminal-justice system. All states must comply with the VAWA 2005 requirement regarding forensic examination in order to receive STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Program) funds. Under 42 U.S.C. § 3796gg-4, a State is not entitled to funds under the STOP Program unless the State or another governmental entity "incurs the full out-of- pocket cost of forensic medical exams ... for victims of sexual assault."[41]

This means that, if no other governmental entity or insurance carrier pays for the exam, states are required to pay for forensic exams if they wish to receive STOP Program funds. The goal of this provision is to ensure that the victim is not required to pay for the exam. The effect of the VAWA 2005 forensic examination requirement is to allow victims time to decide whether to pursue their case. A sexual assault is a traumatic event. Some victims are unable to decide whether they want to cooperate with law enforcement in the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault. Because forensic evidence can be lost as time progresses, such victims should be encouraged to have the evidence collected as soon as possible without deciding to initiate a report. This provision ensures victims receive timely medical treatment.[41]

Due to bureaucratic mismanagement in some areas, and various loopholes, the victim is sometimes sent a bill anyway, and has difficulty in getting it fixed.[42][43]
Historical context
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, 1975 book by Susan Brownmiller (the image shows the cover of the 1986 Pelican Books edition)

Rape, in many US states, before the 1970s, could incur the capital punishment. The 1977 Supreme Court case of Coker v. Georgia held that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbade the death penalty for the crime of rape of an adult woman. The court held that "Life is over for the victim of the murderer; for the rape victim, life may not be nearly so happy as it was, but it is not over, and normally is not beyond repair".[44]

Feminism politicized and publicized rape as an institution in the late 20th-century.

"New York Radical Feminists held a Rape Speak Out, where women discussed rape as an expression of male violence against women, and organized women to establish rape crisis centers and work towards reforming existing rape laws. This was the first attempt to focus political attention on the issue of rape."[45]

Feminist writings on rape include Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, by Susan Brownmiller. Concepts such as date rape and marital rape were brought to public attention.

The murder of Megan Kanka, which occurred in 1994 in New Jersey, when the seven-year-old girl was raped and murdered by her neighbor, has led to the introduction of Megan's Law, which are laws which require law enforcement to disclose details relating to the location of registered sex offenders.

Several developments in regard to rape legislation have occurred in the 21st century. Following the intensely publicized case of the murder of Jessica Lunsford, a 9-years-old girl from Florida who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a man with prior convictions for sexual attacks, states have started enacting laws referred to as Jessica's Law, which typically mandate life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison, and lifetime electronic monitoring, for adults convicted of raping children under 12 years.
See also

List of anti-sexual assault organizations in the United States
Combined DNA Index System
Northern Virginia Sun – newspaper that published the names of rape victims
Debbie Smith Act
Extremities, a play (and later film with Farrah Fawcett) in which a would-be rape victim and her roommates, given the complexities of the judicial system, debate reporting the attack
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape (defunct)
Paul Martin Andrews, an American rape victim and an advocate for other rape victims.
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Prison rape in the United States
Sexual assault in the U.S. military
Tailhook scandal
2003 U.S. Air Force Academy sexual assault scandal

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Yes sir a woman have the "right" to teared up the lives of god know how many others at her whim by coming up with false charges/stories and then not being punished for the most part for doing so.

Yes rapes does indeed happen and being send to prison for decades for doing so also happen but what does not happen, for the most part, are any serous level of punishments for the women who greatly harm innocent men lives with false charges of rape.

Hell good old Jackie is very unlikely to be even thrown out of UVA over the matter any more then in the Duke lacrosse case was Crystal Mangum punished for the great harm she did to many people. In Mangum case that lack of punishment allowed her to be free to killed a boyfriend later on.

Hell Jackie real ID is still being protected for some strange reason by the news media.

Deadly Hazing and the Dildo Brigade: 5 Shocking Fraternity Horror Stories From the Past Year

Many American fraternities are characterized by a sickening array of violent acts.


In America today, 1 in 5 female university students are sexually assaulted; men who join fraternities are three times as likely to rape; and a single story about sexual assault has been upsetting the media cycle for weeks.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s 9000-word feature on rampant sexual assault at the University of Virginia was published on Rolling Stone’s website in mid-November. The article focused on the account of a woman named Jackie, who claimed that as a freshman at UVA she was gang-raped by seven men at a Phi Psi fraternity party on campus. A few weeks later the Washington Post and other outlets reported inconsistencies in the story, which as it turned out, had not been properly vetted.

Following these revelations, many worried about the negative impact this fiasco would have on sexual assault victims who wished to come forward in the future. Senator Claire McCaskill called the article, “a setback for survivors in this country….This is not a crime where you have rampant false reporting or embellishment. This is a crime that is the most underreported crime in America and will remain so.”

Erdely’s article should not detract attention from the sickening array of violent acts, from rape-baiting emails to mutilating animals to deadly hazing rituals, that have come to characterize so many American fraternities. Here are a few fraternity horror stories from the past year, several of which are still under investigation.

1. The Dildo Brigade

Just last month at San Diego University, a “Take Back the Night” march was interrupted by fraternity members hurling sex toys, eggs and obscenities at participants. The alleged ambush occurred just before Thanksgiving break and is currently being investigated. Meanwhile, leaders of the university’s Greek lifestyle announced a few days later that they’d be undergoing sexual assault prevention training in lieu of partying. On December 10, police arrested SDSU sophomore Francisco Sousa on suspicion of sexually assaulting a fellow student. Of the 13 assaults reported on campus this semester, Sousa’s arrest is the first.

2. Pink Birds, White Bros

In October, several Psi Kappa Alpha pledges from the University of Southern Mississippi headed to the Hattiesburg Zoo on a dare to get their picture taken next to a swan. Not exactly what you’d call a rush. But the early-morning prank took several bizarre and ultimately deadly turns when one of the pledges decided to steal a Chilean flamingo from its enclosure.

Devin Nottis, 19, allegedly scaled a 10-foot fence, threw a T-shirt over the bird and nabbed her, intending to bring her back to his frat house. Instead, he left the bird on a nearby bike trail, where she was discovered the next day, so badly injured she had to be euthanized. According to Richard Taylor, the executive director of the Hattiesburg Convention Commission, which operates the zoo, “In the aftermath of the prank, zoo officials discovered a male flamingo was showing unusual behavior. He stood by himself, not with the flock.” The male flamingo, who was the mate of the bird Nottis stole and mutilated, died soon afterward.

Following the incident, Nottis rapped shirtless, in front of a mirror, bragging about what he'd done via Snapchat. He was apprehended by police and charged with grand larceny, two counts of animal cruelty and trespassing. The chapter of Psi Kappa Alpha to which he belonged was temporarily suspended.

3. Deadly Hazing

Though hazing accounts for less violence, injury and death than binge drinking and sexual assault at fraternities, it remains a strong threat to students. Caitlin Flanagan reported in the Atlantic this past March that, “hazing on campus, an art form that reaches its apogee at fraternities…has lately spread to all sorts of student groups.”

One of the most well-known and disturbing instances of hazing gone wrong occurred at Cornell. In February 2011, Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother George Desdune was kidnapped and driven to a townhouse on campus, where he was tied up and asked trivia questions about his fraternity. This was part of an annual hazing rite, and also a way to get brothers drunk fast (a shot of vodka for every incorrect answer). Desdune was found a few hours later in a library, unresponsive, without a pulse.

Despite a fair amount of anti-hazing legislation, accidents stemming from such practices still occur with some regularity. In September, the body of Clemson University sophomore and Sigma Phi Epsilon brother Tucker Hipps was found in a lake under a bridge. Hipps had participated in a hazing ritual just a few hours before, and Gawker reported that many Clemson students alleged the hazing led to his death. The university suspended activities for all 24 of its on-campus fraternities soon after, though its official statement didn’t mention Hipps’ death as the cause, but rather, “a high number of serious incidents involving fraternity activities.”

While the investigation is ongoing, it’s still unclear whether hazing played a role in Hipps’ death. Two other unnamed fraternities at Clemson are also under investigation this year for separate allegations involving hazing, alcohol and harm to others.

4. X-Rated Drugging

Police are investigating whether brothers from the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee slipped date rape drugs into alcoholic drinks this past September. According to the police report, the brothers had a system for administering the drugs. Upon entering the party, men were given black X marks on their hands, and women red X marks, which allowed them access to different beverages, likely those that were spiked. Women who attended the party reported they were discouraged from pouring their own drinks and saw several shots of vodka that looked cloudy.

UWM suspended its affiliation with Tau Kappa Epsilon, but that fraternity is private and not beholden to the university. Last year, the same fraternity was linked to three sexual assault reports. An investigation was launched, but no charges were ever filed.

5. Disband of Brothers

The Phi Kappa Tau brothers at Georgia Tech have a long history of embracing rape culture. The fraternity is best known for circulating an inane but creepy letter on “Luring your Rapebait” back in 2013. Advice includes, “ALWAYS USE YOUR HANDS OR ARMS TO GUIDE THEIR DANCING in order to maximize your pleasure,” and a seven-step guide to ejaculating inside of a woman.

For this, Phi Kappa Tau was put on probation and the social chair who wrote the letter issued a formal apology. But in April, Georgia Tech announced there would be no more Phi Kappa Tau chapter on its campus after an investigation turned up an ongoing, “pattern of sexual violence…that suggests a deep-rooted culture within the fraternity that is obscene, indecent and endangers women,” according to school administrators.

One incident that pushed them over the edge was an email that got into the hands of administrators containing the lyrics to songs pledges were made to sing during the fraternity’s Christmas party. One of the songs contained a vile lyric about raping women at an abortion clinic, though that might not even be the worst line.

Hannah K. Gold is a journalist, creative writer and former intern at the Nation. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs here and on Twitter @togglecoat.

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bobsal, quit raping me please. I find it very offensive.

You are one sick ****. Take your medication. In fact double up or even take the whole bottle. Whatever you do, if there are any fatal seeming reactions, do NOT seek expert assistance, call Hawkeye and be sure to save a vial or two for him.

Princeton mom: Getting raped at college while drunk is a wonderful opportunity to learn.

Author Susan Patton, a.k.a., Princeton Mom has as great deal to say to young women about how they should comport themselves in college and how they need get busy hunting for husbands RIGHT NOW! But if you do get raped in college, gals, Patton suggests that you chalk it up “to a learning experience.”

Hoo boy.

The occasion for the pearl-clad ‘50s throwback to bestow this wisdom was a CNN interview about college rape, which she is just really confused about. Why, it’s all people talk about on college campuses these days! She’d like us to get back to the more important college topic of husband hunting and why no one seems to want to date her son.

“What makes this so particularly prickly is the definition of rape,” Patton said to indignant host Carol Costello. “It no longer is when a woman is violated at the point of a gun or a knife. We’re now talking about or identifying as rape what really is clumsy hook-up melodrama or a fumbled attempt at a kiss or a caress.”

“This is with a friend, this is in your own home,” she said, sounding completely flummoxed. "It makes one wonder, why do you not just get up and leave?”

Why didn’t anyone think of that? Patton knows all about it because she once talked to a real-live rape victim, although she did not really believe her. “There’s rape, and then there’s rape,” she said, unoriginally. “I believe that she experienced something that she regretted. I believe that she got very drunk, and had sex with a man that she regretted the next morning. To me, that’s not a crime. That’s not rape. That’s a learning experience. That has to do with making choices and taking responsibility for those choices.”

But, she insisted, she was in no way blaming victims. She was just assigning them responsibility and lecturing them about what they did wrong. That’s different. She also invited rape victims to come talk to her to get this lecture in person.

They're lining up now.

Phyllis Schlafly tells men that it is time for them to fear college.

Eagle Forum founder, and, let’s face it, doddering old windbag, Phyllis Schafly said this week that college is too dangerous for young men now because feminists are waging an all-out war on them.

She was, of course, discussing the unraveling of the Rolling Stone story chronicling the alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia freshman, which is a bonanza for rape deniers and conservative windbags everywhere.

“It’s really dangerous for a guy to go to college these days,” Schlafly told WorldNetDaily. “ He’s better off if he doesn’t talk to any women when he gets there.”

Later she said: “There isn’t any rape culture. There is a war on men, and [feminists] are very open about it.”

Yeupp, it’s open season, all right.

Notably Schlafly also believes that a man cannot rape his wife, since marriage is, by definition, consent.

So, yeah, we should definitely listen to her.

bob'sballs, have you been seeking counseling? If not, it may help you with your personality disorder.

A Fumbled Attempt at a Caress? 7 Pundits' Shockingly Awful Rape Denialism

Rise of the rape truthers.

December 17, 2014 |

There’s been a shocking media feeding frenzy over the discovery that one of the young women claiming to be a rape victim in Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s recent Rolling Stone piece might be exaggerating about her experience or even lying about it. It’s not just because reporters love talking about the journalistic missteps of others, though that is part of it. No, the real reason this is turning into such a big deal is there are a surprising number of people who want to deny that rape is a serious social problem and who want to push the idea that many rape cases are just a matter of women lying because they are crazy or vindictive. For these folks—call ‘em rape truthers—this whole incident is like a second Christmas, an opportunity to take an extremely rare and strange case and pretend it should be reason to dismiss the reality that rape is a crime that happens with some frequency.

It doesn’t really make sense, of course. As Wagatwe Wanjuki at the New York Timeswrites, “Yes, a tiny number of people lie about being raped, but almost all rapists lie about raping.” But, as Amanda Taub at Vox writes, the “fear of giving women the ability to put men in jail” threatens the sexist status quo. Subsequently, even though there’s no real evidence for it, many people stand behind the myth that women routinely lie about being raped, which justifies preserving a status quo where men’s word is considered more authoritative and trustworthy just because they are male. Here is a list of some of the most recent and worst rape truthers.

1. Rich Lowry. Lowry pounced on the UVA story to push the idea that feminists make up rape to push some kind of “agenda,” for purposes of which he was deliberately vague. “Rolling Stone didn’t do basic fact-checking here, I believe because they had an agenda to portray UVA as the bastion of white male privilege, where basically rapists rule the social life,” he said on ABC News. Lowry desperately wants one woman's possible lie to disprove the idea that UVA is male-dominated, that UVA has concealed the extent of its rape problem, or that rapists frequently get away with their crimes.

But one woman’s lie doesn’t wipe out the fact that most rapists never see a day in jail. Nor does it disprove that the university failed to investigate the claims of Jackie or any of the other women Erdely interviewed. (Perhaps, if they had, we would have better information on whether this rape actually happened as Jackie said, or not.) Nor does it change the fact that UVA is under a federal investigation because of complaints about how the school deals with these problems. Lowry’s comment was the equivalent of arguing that because some people fake cancer, cancer isn’t a real problem and oncology should be banned as a profession. It just doesn’t work that way.

2. Charles Johnson.Johnson, a right-wing writer Gawker dubbed the world’s worst journalist, got so excited at the discrepancies in the Jackie story that he went on a crusade to “dox” the real -ife Jackie. It was an act of breathtaking cruelty. Either Jackie is telling the truth, in which case Johnson is attacking a rape victim in an effort to silence her, or Jackie is lying, in which case she likely has serious mental health problems and needs help, not abuse. Johnson ended up doxxing the wrong person anyway, tweeting out a picture of a woman who isn’t Jackie and claiming it was her. This lack of interest in basic fact-checking shows he is clearly not motivated by a sincere interest in the truth and suggests it was mostly a pretense to intimidate other women from speaking out about rape.

3. Kevin Williamson. UVA is an outlier because the woman accused of lying may just have done it, but make no mistake: Accusations of mendacity are flung at pretty much every alleged victim. Witness the right-wing war, led by the National Review’s Kevin Williamson, on Lena Dunham to punish her for telling a story in her memoir about being raped in college. Dunham used a pseudonym for her rapist, which is standard in memoir-writing, to protect the innocent and the guilty. But Williamson wants Dunham to pay for telling this story. First he tried to punish her by accusing her of being a rapist herself because she did weird, inappropriate things with her sister as a kid, as kids do. Then he tried to punish her by calling some random man she went to college with who happened to have the same name as the fake one she gave her assailant in her memoir. The right-wing site Breitbart took it a step further, launching an “investigation” that was mostly a bunch of bugging people about details that were clearly changed in the standard memoir style. The real message was: Try to tell other rape victims they are not alone, and your family, schoolmates and friends will be made to suffer for it.

4. George Will. In his Washington Post column, Will scoffed at the idea that it’s always rape to have sex with a woman who refuses consent. Citing a story where he admits that the victim said no, Will implied it doesn’t count as rape because the victim allowed herself to be alone with a man. Since he refuses to believe women might actually be traumatized by being forced to have sex against their will, he has an alternate theory about why they call forcible sex “rape”: “[W]hen they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.” In the real world, however, most criminal statutes do define forcing sex on a non-consenting person as rape, even if you got her name before you did it.

5. Tammy Bruce. Similarly fame feminist Tammy Bruce suggested on Fox News that women speak out against rape not because they are unhappy with being forced to have sex against their will but because there’s been “a romanticizing of victimhood.” It’s often quite the opposite. Rape victims frequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. They often find that instead of praise and attention, their friends and family start avoiding them or even blame them for what happened. Many rape victims fear speaking out and treat the experience like it’s a dirty secret, even though they did nothing wrong.

6. Patrick Howley. With the number of women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault and other transgressions rising seemingly by the day, you’d think the rape truthers would let this one go. But Patrick Howley of the odious Tucker Carlson-formed Daily Caller isn’t going to let 20-plus women bearing witness—including Janice Dickinson and Beverly Johnson—stop him from trying to shame women into silence. He published an article, complete with the most unflattering photos he could find, insinuating that all Cosby's accusers must be lying because a couple of them have fallen on hard times or have criminal records. However, none of this is evidence of lying, particularly in light of the overwhelming evidence against Cosby.

7. Susan Patton. Susan Patton’s entire career as an author and pundit is a testament to how far you can get in society just by being an outspoken misogynist. Patton became famous by writing a snooty letter to the Princeton newspaper telling girls that their hope of ever making a good marriage dries up by college graduation. Since then she has had an amazing career of book deals and TV appearances despite lacking wit, common sense, or any understanding of the idea of evidence. For some reason, her uneducated opinion was welcomed into the debate over campus rape on CNN. Patton did not disappoint, openly redefining most rape—which happens between acquaintances—as not-rape. “What makes this so particularly prickly is the definition of rape,” Patton told CNN host Carol Costello. “It no longer is when a woman is violated at the point of a gun or a knife. We’re now talking about or identifying as rape what really is clumsy hook-up melodrama or a fumbled attempt at a kiss or a caress.” She went on to share her belief, totally unsubstantiated, that a rape victim is just someone who “had sex with a man that she regretted the next morning.”

Women who “cry rape” after having consensual sex with a man is the favorite version of this misogynist fairy tale about false rape accusations, but it is worth noting that even when rape truthers are lucky enough to get a story that seems like it could be false—such as Jackie’s or the Duke lacrosse accuser before her—it does not fit this mold. No one, not even the most ardent rape truthers, believes either of these women are trying to cover up for consensual sex. If women routinely accused their consensual sex partners of rape in order to hide their sluttiness, you’d think rape truthers would have some examples, instead of clinging to situations that don’t fit that mold and hoping no one notices. And yet, here we are.

Amanda Marcotte co-writes the blog Pandagon. She is the author of "It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments."

bob's balls, how much do you love rape?

You really should be more interested in your own. Like I said, if the doctor told you 'take two', take eight - they're more effective that way, especially if you wash them down with a fifth of vodka. Now go **** yourself.