When I find something so ugly and so beyond the pale in print sitting on MY front lawn I feel obligated to pull it into this medium. Even though this is just what the writers of these Letters to the Editor like Houston’s Pete Smith want, I just cannot help myself.
This horrifying crap that women are at fault for rape may be fine for internet comment areas buy has no business on our front lawns were children can see it and dogs can get infected by taking a crap on it.
This is from the Houston Chronicle, Sunday, December 7th 2014. I find no better example of what is wrong in this world of ours.
Liberalism
Regarding “Cosby scandal masks the larger problem” (Page B7, Tuesday), New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof boldly states that rape is tolerated in American society because “too often, boys are socialized to see women and girls as playthings.” He then insists that “the larger problem is a culture that enables rape. The larger problem is us.”
But wait, he’s not done. Kristof is also certain that “We collectively are still too passive about sexual violence in our midst, too willing to make excuses, too inclined to perceive shame in being raped,” to which I can only ask: What is all this “we” nonsense?
Nicolas Kristof may have stumbled through the first 55 years of his life without strong opinions on rape, but I’m fairly confident he is part of a very small minority.
And while he does make an important point about a lax culture on college campuses that enables rape, his conclusions are off the mark: Rape happens on college campuses, not because all of us failed to be concerned about it, but because of the “hook-up” culture that has not just popularized casual sex, but institutionalized it.
Stripped of significance in the minds of our young, it’s not too big a leap to surmise that if sex is no big deal and available on demand, that the line becomes blurred in the minds of our youth when it comes to rape.
What is significant is why young people feel that sex is no big deal. The answer is simple: Progressivism. Liberals have been promoting the feminist sexual revolution as consequence-free for more than 50 years now and only seem to have discovered that rape is a problem the day before yesterday. Liberals have also dominated campus culture for the past 50 years. Do the math.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to conclude that rape flourishes – not because of “all of us” – but despite our best efforts to prevent the onslaught of liberalism.
Nicolas Kristof might fairly be called a liberal and a progressive. If he wants to understand why rape flourishes, he might start by examining his own values, instead of everybody else’s.
Pete Smith, Houston