Deborah Lambert, who writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia, is the latest to comment on the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” “womanless beauty contest” at Mississippi State, which was sponsored by an office that got $300,000 from the Office of Violence Against Women:
Fortunately, there were only four rapes on this campus from 2005 to 2010 – hardly an epidemic. Nevertheless, the grant money was used to flood the campus with preventive education information. In the campus bathrooms, for example, were flyers bearing the message that: “One in four women will be raped in their lifetime,” a much-repeated statistic of doubtful authenticity….
At least one courageous blogger at falserapesociety.com strays from the politically correct mantra on rape and gets to the heart of the problem, noting that “If we want to curb sexual assault, we need to teach our young people the truth, but the truth doesn’t jibe with the current narrative that holds only one gender responsible for stopping it.”
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