Article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/amy-coney-barrett-potential-supreme-court-nominee-wrote-influential-ruling-on-campus-sexual-assault/2020/09/20/843e964e-fb52-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html
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Please not K.C. Johnson, that vicious misogynist.
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This double standard for race and gender will be in effect until a woman is President.
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If the incident was as described by this article, which shouldn't be assumed because it could be worse than the Washington Post is describing it to be, then I would not have reported it to the college if I had been in a similar situation. As Jane Doe, I would have been very upset with John Doe. I would have talked to him about it. If he did not express a consciousness of wrong-doing and remorse, or if he said he was sorry and then did not change his behavior, then I would have discontinued the relationship.
I also might have discontinued the relationship regardless of what he said and even if he changed his behavior, because of the violation of trust and loss of safety which the incident would have provoked. To say that ending a relationship doesn't send a strong enough message is to imply that men don't feel emotional pain when their relationships with women are disrupted or that emotional pain doesn't prompt men to think about what they did.
There is a difference between someone who does not initially understand appropriate boundaries and someone who wants to hurt you or who doesn't care if he hurts you. That is particularly true among young people.
There seem to be some problematic dynamics developing around these issues. One is to label everything as legally actionable rape, which everything isn't. Another is to evaluate cases of alleged sexual assault on the basis of gender discrimination while absurdly avoiding the fact that most sexual assault is committed by men.
