The Rape Culture at McMaster farce continues

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Dec 20

RE: Lessons from Sexual Violence Probe at McMaster.  Hamilton Spectator of today's date.  A continuation of the farce from yesterday.

“I slept with the prof, but I didn’t get the marks I wanted.”  That seems to be the substance of many of the complaints about sexual “violence,” “assault,” and the wonderfully vague, “rape culture.”  McMaster is blameworthy for failing to enforce the corrupt alleged bargain.

The specific allegations against McMaster are couched in terms so vague, they’re meaningless, and useless towards the adoption of any resolution.  McMaster ran a “culture review,” and found “systemic and cultural issues,” “inappropriate behaviours,” (note the ungrammatical use of the plural in behaviours).  There may well be a fire amidst all this smoke, but the police have taken action against it.

The all-knowing Spectator has determined what steps McMaster must take to reform itself.  The first is to believe survivors.  If this was the rule, Joe Biden would be history.  Another is to guarantee fully-informed consent, which means if the prof doesn’t come across with what the girl wants, she gets put into the driver’s seat of the investigation.  The call for elimination of gag orders serves to undermine due process, since witnesses are not to connive with the plaintiff.  The call for more transparency means, in this case, non-criminal violations of McMaster’s “sexual violence” policy gets the accused publicly shamed without due process.

Then comes the clinchers.  “Combat rape culture,” which culture is expressed in jokes and “entrenched structures” that allow people in power to exploit students.  (See para 1)  And “pay people doing the work” of those supporting the plaintiffs.  Let’s institutionalize this and have our people profit from this episode.

Let no crisis go unexploited!

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