A recent government study found that 1 in 5 women can be expected to be sexually assaulted during their college years. That is shocking if true, but not surprising.
For years, radical feminists have insisted on coed dormitories and bathrooms, free condoms, Sex Fairs, Vagina-Day, sex-themed coursework, and a campus hook-up culture that teaches responsibility-free sex as a form of casual entertainment for both men and women.
With female students suffering more consequences of this culture than male students, liberals are calling on government to step in and fix the problem. California’s state legislature sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a bill requiring their taxpayer-funded colleges to mandate that students give “active consent” to one another before and during all sexual activity, including kissing … and including sexual activity between married partners.
What, exactly, “active consent” means is anyone’s guess. An advisor at UCLA’s freshman orientation this fall urged partners engaged in sexual activity to ask each other “Are you ok?” every few minutes because, you know, women can change their minds in a moment’s notice. “You’re the one at risk of committing sexual violence or sexual assault,” she warned. “If your partner goes silent at any point, just stop.”
With amazing coincidence, the White House last week launched an anti-campus assault campaign of its own. Called It’s On Us, the campaign, which targets men in particular, will organize a nationwide sign-up to combat the campus rape culture. One supporter praised the campaign for inviting men, not indicting them, to join the conversation.
The White House campaign is rich in ironies. Those signing up for It’s On Us will have their names, emails and zip codes collected by Generation Progress, the youth outreach arm of the liberal Center for American Progress advocacy group, just in time for the 2014 mid-term elections.
