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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 05:41 AM Jun 2014

The AEI is pro-rape and anti-slut because women are children when you get down to it

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/10/the-aei-is-pro-rape-and-anti-slut-because-women-are-children-when-you-get-down-to-it/

The AEI is pro-rape and anti-slut because women are children when you get down to it
By TBogg
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 16:44 EDT

I used to think the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was just a bunch of math nerds whose job was to massage numbers in such a manner that horrific crimes against humanity by corporations could be dismissed with a cost/benefit analysis demonstrating an economic upside, Thus, when a gas leak at Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal killed 8,000 people in 1984, the AEI could be counted upon to produce a study showing that the mosquito population was decimated, meaning a significant decrease in malaria cases could be expected.

~snip~

Yesterday, antiquated Victorian douche device George Will cited AEI numbers as he explained that sexual assault on college campuses is way overstated, particularly if you throw out hilarious hijinks like over-enthusaistic groping and uninvited finger banging . Besides all that, Will points out that coeds are a vindictive coven of blue-ball inflicting whore-demons who are not to be trusted by lusty lads who are not wise in the wicked ways of women.

Wills’ argument boils down to: Won’t somebody think of the rapey-bros, and the lawsuits that follow?

AEI Resident Schola’ Christina Hoff Sommers, who has made it her life’s work to save men and boys from her be-boobed cohort (although I don’t remember any guy asking her to), questions this whole “rape culture” crisis, saying it is overblown and, you know what else? It reminds Sommers of the McMartin preschool panic where counselors and rabid “feminist activists” persuaded toddlers to say they were molested.
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