Buried deep in a November Rolling Stone report from the Oceti Sakowin camp (the largest of the #NoDAPL protest camps established without permit on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land) is this disturbing revelation about protest organizers choosing to deal with an alleged attempted rape internally instead of reporting it to authorities (emphasis mine): In the face…
Yes There Is A Wrong Way To Be A Rape Victim
Recently actress/author/activist Lena Dunham sort of apologized to a man she identified (inadvertently, I guess?) as a rapist in her book Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”. Her publisher, Random House, also issued a kinda-sorta apology statement and paid his legal fees but didn’t admit to any wrong-doing.…
Rolling Stone Apologizes For Phony-Baloney UVA Rape Story
I’ve long felt that the campus rape issue in America, supposedly an epidemic according to certain demagogues, is the product of political exaggeration. An offshoot of the Democrats’ “war on women” strategy. It’s gotten so out of hand that even here in North Dakota some claim that one in five women who attend North Dakota…