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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Will: Sexual assault victims enjoy ‘coveted status’ on college campuses
In a column published in both the Washington Post and New York Post, Fox News contributor George Will dismissed claims of college sexual assault using scare quotes around the term while stating students see victimhood as a coveted status.
Writing that college administrators are being educated by Washington, Will writes, they are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous they are promoting the idea that victimhood is a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.
Relating the story of a Swarthmore coed who was coerced into sex after saying no, Will dismissed her claim of sexual assault claiming it was part of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of todays prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/09/george-will-sexual-assault-victims-enjoy-coveted-status-on-college-campuses/
shenmue
(38,506 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)hlthe2b
(102,104 posts)uggh...
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)put up with all those years of their senile dementia.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)(since it's outside of my scope of practice), just as a regular person, I would suggest George Will's family look into getting him mental health treatments...
GeorgeGist
(25,308 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)or ANY republican or ANY teapartier, until they are shamed, this will go on
I like my idea of the opening night of the Cobert late show, Karl Rove agrees to be slapped on live tv for his favorite charity or candidate which we donate millions which we have raised
righty aint watchin this show no more anyway
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aikoaiko
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Really? As much of a jackass George Will is, isn't advocating rape beyond the pale?
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)My thought was conservatives only seem to learn compassion/empathy through experiencing the effects of that which they advocate.
But I agree, my comment crossed a line.
FourScore
(9,704 posts)Sometimes, we can briefly lose perspective on DU, can't we? It's happened to all of us at some point.
Apology accepted.
justhanginon
(3,289 posts)seems to cease. I often wonder if they will have their tombstones engraved with some nasty sexist or racist remark as a fitting remembrance to their rotten lives. If there is a hell .........
eShirl
(18,477 posts)maybe Mr. Will should focus on THAT
sinkingfeeling
(51,434 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,574 posts)would get my post hidden.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)My thoughts about what should happen to him aren't pretty, but they are fitting.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)Just another indication---as if any were needed---that the conservative movement in this country has gone off the tracks and is now guided by extremist idiots.
tosh
(4,422 posts)Seems to me he's always been hateful and extreme.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)Pierce does an eloquent job of describing Will's slide away from respectability to his current status as right-wing hack.
FourScore
(9,704 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Yuck.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)A) They're waaay more interesting to read.
B) They have some basis in reality.
niyad
(113,020 posts)will, you are an utter disgrace.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)He needs a workup. Senility is a bitch.
dawg
(10,621 posts)Stupid *and* hateful.
Blue Owl
(50,235 posts)In his own mind...
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)3catwoman3
(23,940 posts)Jesus H! Maybe George's bowties have been way too tight all these years, and he's suffering from chronic hypoxia. That statement is flat out nuts.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)"Will asserts that making the leap from forcible sexual penetration to nonconsensual touching is too broad of a definition for sexual assault,"
Apparently George is not aware that there are different degrees of sexual assault and that yes, non-consensual touching of breasts or genitals has been classified as sexual assault for a long time - this is nothing new, even if George happens to be ignorant about it.
Also George apparently thinks a husband cannot rape his wife based on his anecdote about the Swarthmore coed.
Theyd now decided mutually, she thought just to be friends. When he ended up falling asleep on her bed, she changed into pajamas and climbed in next to him. Soon, he was putting his arm around her and taking off her clothes. I basically said, No, I dont want to have sex with you. And then he said, OK, thats fine and stopped..?.?. And then he started again a few minutes later, taking off my panties, taking off his boxers. I just kind of laid there and didnt do anything I had already said no. I was just tired and wanted to go to bed. I let him finish. I pulled my panties back on and went to sleep.
Six weeks later, the woman reported that she had been raped. Now the Obama administration is riding to the rescue of sexual assault victims
In other words, in Will's tiny little mind, when the coed got into the bed she was consenting to sex with him even though she told him straight out she did not want to have sex.
One can only hope that Will's wife straightens the little prick out on this one.
redqueen
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Arkana
(24,347 posts)God, the guy's like Bill Kristol--spent his entire career getting paid to be wrong.
gerogie2
(450 posts)ever. They are always sticking their foot in their mouth. G'sus!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Not only should George be fired, but whatever editor allowed a columnist to support rape should also be fired.