Is sexual assault a form of self-expression?

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Oct 21

RE: Local students show power of advocacy.  Spectator editorial of 22 Oct 21.

The Spec editorial was a study in cognitive dissonance.  It found it wrong and victim-blaming that girls who dress provocatively sometimes get molested.  It may be wrong, but it isn’t strange.  If a person gets mugged while walking down a dark alley, is it victim-blaming to ask why they elected to walk down that dark alley?

Apparently, decades of sex education has failed to teach students about the birds and the bees, or even basic biology.  I guess that happens when all the emphasis is on normalizing LBGTQ2S+ and "non-binary” types, and the reality of 98 percent of the population, the fraction that got us here, is passed over as politically incorrect.

The editorial held that dress is a form of freedom of expression, evidently non-verbal expression.  And good for being free expression.  Okay, a girl dresses so as to express, “I might be available,” or “Aren’t I sexy?”  If a boy molests her, isn’t that just another form of non-verbal self-expression, saying “I’m interested?”  The editorial later dogmatically asserts that the boy is just wrong, and perhaps he is, but it offers no rational basis for freedom of self-expression to be evil sometimes.  Puritanico-libertinage is a self-contradictory ethics code.

The student trustees want dress codes reviewed upon the principles of “anti-oppressive, non-discriminatory, equitable, and inclusive.”  The old school uniform, where everyone is treated alike, meets these conditions perfectly!  However, uniforms are strangely felt to be oppressive, another example of cognitive dissonance.

What we’re going to get are sociopathic dress codes.

One of the things students learn is school are norms of behavior, like interacting with others.  Progressives hate conventional norms.  They want unconventional norms, like maintaining that LGBTQ2S+ and non-binary behavior is normal when it isn’t, especially in adolescents.  They want the sociopathic to be taught as the norms (trans boys in girls washrooms is okay because they’re really girls!), which is why abnormality is normalized, libertinage in girls is tolerated, and normal boys are the sources of all evil.  Educators appear to have lost their minds because the political bureaucracy finds going along to get along good for their own highly personal interests.  Why resign or get fired when the next fellow will only implement the progressive outrage du jour? (that is, when they don't actually believe it themselves!)

Funny, you never hear about the civilizing mission that women have on men, because that’s too normal.  Dressing in a manner that invites uncivilized behavior in boys isn’t civilizing.

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