The Federalist
College campuses, like the rest of American society, are struggling to contain the wreckage of the sexual revolution. That’s what both the Left and Right don’t get about the ‘campus rape epidemic.’
. . . "Common sense and about 5,000 years of human experience suggest that
women keep themselves as safe as possible, mindful that they are the
smaller and weaker sex, that some men are not gentlemen, and that even
seemingly nice men can behave badly when drunk. They might also want to
consider that their own judgment will be impaired by alcohol. Such
simple truths were conveyed from mothers to daughters for eons. As
Camille Paglia wrote in “Sex, Art, and American Culture”:
Feminism keeps . . . telling women that they can do anything, go anywhere, say anything, wear anything. No, they can’t. Women will always be in sexual danger . . . Feminism, with its pie-in-the-sky fantasies about the perfect world, keeps young women from seeing life as it is.. . .
" The truth from which our society has been fleeing for half a century is not really so awful. There are differences between men and women, particularly in what they want and need from sex. Ungoverned sexuality can degenerate into degradation and abuse all too easily. Love and tenderness really are the best routes to happiness. Women have it within their power to reject the hook up culture and insist upon a return to dating. Such a turn would be a boon to everyone—but most of all to themselves."
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