"It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center. Day after day, you wait for the casualties to show up from the alleged campus rape epidemic—but no one calls."
So begins Heather MacDonald's shocking City Journal column on the subject of US campus rapes. Feminist activists claim 20% to 25% of female students graduate having suffered rape or attempted rape, a statistic few dare question. Colleges have put in place all manner of expensive and draconian safeguards to respond to this - from unworldly rules, workshops and training sessions to the suspension for years of students the complaints against whom are so implausible they were rejected long before they could get to court. Is the rape epidemic that supposedly justifies all of this real?
I don't want to summarise what she says any more, as it wouldn't do the whole piece justice. Read it.
