The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Feminization of Victimhood The rules of virtue signaling Donald Jeffries Recently, I watched a documentary on Larry Nassar. He was the team doctor for the U.S. Women’s national gymnastics team from 1996-2014. In January, 2018, Nassar was convicted of possessing child pornography and ten counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to an astounding 100-235 years in prison. Nassar had been accused of sexually assaulting at least 265 young girls. This was a real case of #MeToo Syndrome, as seemingly every girl he had coached eventually joined in, telling their own stories, which as far as I can tell were extremely scant on details. Color me skeptical, as usual. I have yet to hear any media outlet tell Nassar’s side of the story. What was his explanation? I’ve watched two specials on Nassar, and there wasn’t a single talking head, a single defense lawyer, who at least attempted to provide some context. The most incredible aspect of these charges was that the accusers- again, not su...

  Susan Brownmiller’s Rape Myths The author has died, but her baseless contentions live on Janice Fiamengo Susan Brownmiller, in interview Radical feminist Susan Brownmiller died last weekend at age 90. As  The Washington Post  noted in its obituary, Brownmiller’s book  Against Our Will :  Men, Women, and Rape , published in 1975, “transformed the social and legal understanding of rape as a tool of violence and power.” It is remarkable that a book so sloppily written, thinly substantiated, and motivated by such obvious derangement could have had such a far-reaching impact, but it did. No reasonable person will want to read Brownmiller’s repulsive tract, but all should know of its spurious claims. ** “I wrote this book because I am a woman who changed her mind about rape” (p. 9). So wrote Brownmiller in a  Personal Statement  placed at the book’s beginning. In this preface, Brownmiller told of a shattering awakening that occurred when “I finally confron...