Rikurzhen
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The mind-rot of liberalism continues on ebola-like:
Read the entire essay. Why is it that everything feminism touches turns to shit? To be a woman means one can live without consequence. You know, like children.
Given the mounting concern about sexual assault on college campuses, you might expect activists to welcome a fraternity adviser’s message that Greek houses should take positive steps to protect inebriated women from potential dangers.
You’d be wrong. Apparently it's not enough to watch out for the welfare of drunken young women. You have to do so without suggesting that they, rather than the diabolical forces of fraternity life, have any responsibility for their intoxication -- even if they arrive at a party plastered. Judging, or even acknowledging, the risky behavior of female college students has become a cultural taboo.
Hence the fate of Forbes.com contributor Bill Frezza, who briefly published a column -- under the deliberately provocative headline “Drunk Female Guests Are The Gravest Threat To Fraternities” -- warning fraternities to watch out for female party guests who show up intoxicated. “I don’t care how pretty or flirtatious a young lady is; if she’s visibly intoxicated, don’t let her in,” he wrote. The consequences, he warned, could be grave: . . . . .
The column was almost immediately jerked from the site, and Frezza, who has written for Forbes since 2011, was summarily fired. (Forbes columns are essentially blog posts, put up by their contributors without editing. Contributors are paid based on traffic, which may account for the headline and equally designed-to-outrage stock photo.) . . . .
The reaction to the piece was entirely overwrought. You’d think Frezza had called for getting women drunk and raping them rather than suggesting that fraternity members escort intoxicated women out of the party and put them safely in cabs. As we’re constantly reminded in the context of sexual consent, a drunken woman is not a responsible adult. She needs someone to watch out for her safety, whether to guard her from accidents or from assault. Getting frat boys to act as protectors rather than predators, even out of raw self-interest, seems like a positive step.
You’d be wrong. Apparently it's not enough to watch out for the welfare of drunken young women. You have to do so without suggesting that they, rather than the diabolical forces of fraternity life, have any responsibility for their intoxication -- even if they arrive at a party plastered. Judging, or even acknowledging, the risky behavior of female college students has become a cultural taboo.
Hence the fate of Forbes.com contributor Bill Frezza, who briefly published a column -- under the deliberately provocative headline “Drunk Female Guests Are The Gravest Threat To Fraternities” -- warning fraternities to watch out for female party guests who show up intoxicated. “I don’t care how pretty or flirtatious a young lady is; if she’s visibly intoxicated, don’t let her in,” he wrote. The consequences, he warned, could be grave: . . . . .
The column was almost immediately jerked from the site, and Frezza, who has written for Forbes since 2011, was summarily fired. (Forbes columns are essentially blog posts, put up by their contributors without editing. Contributors are paid based on traffic, which may account for the headline and equally designed-to-outrage stock photo.) . . . .
The reaction to the piece was entirely overwrought. You’d think Frezza had called for getting women drunk and raping them rather than suggesting that fraternity members escort intoxicated women out of the party and put them safely in cabs. As we’re constantly reminded in the context of sexual consent, a drunken woman is not a responsible adult. She needs someone to watch out for her safety, whether to guard her from accidents or from assault. Getting frat boys to act as protectors rather than predators, even out of raw self-interest, seems like a positive step.
Read the entire essay. Why is it that everything feminism touches turns to shit? To be a woman means one can live without consequence. You know, like children.
