Cathy Young: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

The federal war on campus rape is unfolding amid
a revival of “rape-crisis feminism”—a loosely defined ideology
that views sexual violence as the cornerstone of male oppression of
women, expands the definition of rape to include a wide range of
sexual acts involving no physical force or threat, and elevates the
truth of women’s claims of sexual victimization to nearly
untouchable status. Cathy Young argues that these problems are
exacerbated by government encouragement of kangaroo courts for sex
crimes on campus.

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