SEXUAL VIOLENCE IS NOW CENTER STAGE
FROM COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS…
LET’S HAVE A SERIOUS
GROWNUP DISCUSSION
SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR: Wendy McElroy, author of Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women.
FROM DUKE LACROSSE TO ROLLING STONE AT UVA…
MANY MANY CASES OF FRAUD…
Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women offers a comprehensive overview and debunking of the “rape culture” myth that has devastated campuses and is spilling into Main Street America.
An ideological madness is grotesquely distorting North America’s view of sexuality. The book applies sanity to the claims that men are natural rapists and our culture encourages sexual violence.
Written by a libertarian feminist and rape survivor, Rape Culture Hysteria opens with a highly personal appeal to depoliticize rape and treat it instead as a crime. Victims need to heal. Politicizing their pain and rage is a callous political maneuver that harms victims, women and men.
Chapter One: The Fiction of the Rape Culture defines the “rape culture” and explains why it does not exist in North America. It glances back at how the fiction became embedded into society, especially in academia. Then it looks forward to an emerging rape culture trend that will deeply impact daily life: microaggressions.
Chapter Two: Intellectual Framework and Myth History of Rape Culture. The myth did not arise in an intellectual vacuum. In a straight-forward manner, Chapter Two explains the theories upon which the rape culture is based, including social construction, gender, patriarchy, post-Marxism, and social justice. It rejects three of the rape culture’s founding beliefs: rape is facilitated by society; men have created a mass psychology of rape; and, rape is a part of normal life.
Chapter Three: Dynamics of the Hysteria and Psychology of Rape Culture True Believers. The dynamics of rape culture politics are exposed through the behavior of its social justice warriors. A recent travesty is used to showcase those dynamics. On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone accused members of a University of Virginia fraternity of gang-raping a female student. The accusation was quickly revealed as untrue. The unraveling at U-Va. is a perfect vehicle to illustrate how rape culture dogma is maintained even when it is revealed to be untrue. The chapter discusses effective tactics with which to handle social justice warriors.
Chapter Four: Data, False and True. The rape culture myth is based on untrue and unfounded “facts,” which have been repeatedly refuted. Yet they lumber on as zombie stats, kept alive by those to whom the lies are useful and so are repeated like a mantra that drowns out contradicting evidence. This chapter examines of some of the more prevalent zombie stats such as “one in every 4 or 5 women will be raped in their lifetimes.” Where did the faux “facts” originate? What evidence, if any, supports them? Which stats better reflect reality?
Chapter Five: Comparative Studies and Surveys. This chapter compares and contrasts four of the most important, frequently cited studies and surveys on rape: National Crime Victimization Survey; National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey; Campus Sexual Assault Study; and, Uniform Crime Reporting Program. They are analyzed independently but also compared to each other, including major strengths and weaknesses. Lesser studies are also analyzed in passing.
AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE…
BIO: Wendy McElroy is an individualist feminist and an individualist anarchist in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau. She was a co-founder along with Carl Watner and George H. Smith of The Voluntaryist magazine in 1982. McElroy has been a vocal defender of the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange. She has has written or edited well over a dozen books, including XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography through St. Martin’s Press, and contributed to many textbooks,including “Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand” from Penn State. She worked for ten years as a scriptwriter and managing editor at a documentary production company where she scripted dozens of produced projects, some of which were narrated by Walter Cronkite, Charlton Heston and Harry Reasoner. She was a columnist for FOX News for five years and has published widely in periodicals ranging from Penthouse to The Hill. Her TV appearances include the John Stossel Show.
PLUG BOOK: amazon.com/Rape-Culture-Hysteria-Fixing-Damage/dp/1533629404/
WEBSITES: wendymcelroy.com and ifeminists.com
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/wendy.mcelroy.148
TWITTER: @WendyMcElroy1
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