This is what sets off the Social Justice Warriors these days:
Members of the Virginia Tech football team have been accused of acting disrespectfully at a campus sexual assault awareness event. Players were required to attend a Take Back the Night event on March 26. The event was organized by a campus female activism group and featured sexual assault survivors speaking about their experiences as victims. Multiple attendees accused the players of infringing upon the “safe space” the event is intended to foster, according to The Roanoke Times.
Take Back the Night is a national organization that seeks “to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence.” Several attendees wrote letters to the student newspaper, the Collegiate Times, complaining about the players’ behavior. The players arrived late, said they did not know why they were attending the event and spent much of the time looking at their phones, the letters said.
“[T]heir judgmental remarks made it very hard to feel safe,” one wrote. “When survivors took the stage, there was nothing respectful in the way the football team took it, especially in reference to transgender survivors. I am deeply offended and horrified by the disrespectful nature that the players displayed.” Another person said some players “made snide, mocking comments.”
There’s nothing funny about rape — it’s a violent crime and felony — but the “feminist” definition of it has expanded so greatly that the term is practically meaningless these days, especially on college campuses. Were any student actually in favor of literal sexual assault, these sorts of things might serve some sort of purpose. But as the Rolling Stone fiasco just demonstrated, there’s a strong strain of misandry running through the SJW ranks, and that’s likely what the players were reacting to. Could it be that they resented being treated like prospective criminals solely because of their sex?
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