The “Cornell 7”: The Sexual Revolution Devours its Own Children

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I don’t know whether you dear polymaths have paid any attention to this case. In general I don’t think you interest yourselves very much in such cultural froth, God bless ya! But I want to write about this in a forum where readers will actually bring their intellects to bear on the topic, so..voici:

I was at Bryn Mawr Colege 1968-1972. When I started, we still had to wear skirts to class, and there were parietals: men had to be out of the dorms at night.
But by my sophomore year, all that was so OVER. I lived in the college’s first co-ed dorm with a buncha Haverford students. Oh, the “grownups” prophesied that the girls would get “taken advantage of”.. We girls laughed, nay, roared. Our attitude was: we can take care of ourselves, we’re adults, butt OUT. The college did butt out.

One of the articles I read about the Cornell case quotes a boy earnestly telling a girl:”Don’t EVER go upstairs at a frat house.” Well, Haverford didn’t have “frats”, but I also dated a few Penn guys. ( I preferred them to the scruffy, puny Haverford guys, they had, y’know, muscles, and short manly haircuts—and fast-forward: Reader I married one!)

But my point is, I DID go upstairs to their rooms. I wanted to get to know the guy better. I was a virgin and I was shy. I wanted to be able to talk. That sounds naive now, doesn’t it? And maybe my date was disappointed. At no point did it ever occur to me that my date might summon a few of his bros to restrain me so I could be gang-raped— and here’s the thing: I’m quite sure it didn’t occur to the boys either!
These were Penn students, fuggod’s sake! They were “nice”. They had been raised in the same milieu I was. We knew what to expect of each other.

They knew who they were, and they weren’t rapists.

And I knew who I was, and I wasn’t a victim. Also I never drank too much since I was gonna hafta walk back down to 30th Street station to get the Paoli Local back to Bryn Mawr.

Okay: now I’m a mom, and when my daughter was in middle school, like 11 to 14 years old, (say the mid 2000s) we parents were told: they’re ALL having sex! And there’s nothing you can or should do about it. Be cool, tell them “ It’s okay, just be “safe”” , get your boy the condoms and your girl the Gardasil shots. Don’t be judgmental or disapproving, you might psychologically traumatize them for life!

Oh, the kids knew what they were doing back in middle school, and: the kids ( boys AND girls) knew best. It was none of our business.

So, um, whaddya expect when they get to the totally unsupervised environment of college?

You get boys who assume that any girl probably wants to have sex. And so what, no big deal! They’ve been doing it since middle school, after all. There’s no reason to assume any girl does NOT want it.

‘Cept now, the middle school girls have reached the age of consent, and they’re kinda going back on the bargain. At some point every boy became a rapist and every girl a helpless victim.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!” might have been written about the now hoary “sexual revolution” of The Sixties”(which really didn’t begin till late 1968).

Yeah, but “Dawn goes down to day” as another poet wrote. We’re now in the age where “Terror is the order of the day”, as Robespierre decreed.

Heads rolled, during the bloody “#metoo” era.

And —witness the deja-vu of the Cornell 7–

it ain’t over yet,

Sauve qui peut.

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This brings us back to Huxley and the “Devils of Loudun”. Even in the 1600s, young women were susceptible to sexual fantasies. And that was in an age where the social penalties for illegitimate birth were very high indeed. Now we are in an environment where young girls & boys grow up in a highly sexualized environment, birth control and abortion are easily available, and the ever-generous taxpayer will set a young woman up for life if she simply lies back and gets pregnant – it is effectively a paid life-style choice.

Short summary – it is a reasonable assumption that every young woman today is available for sex.

However, when it is convenient, young women like to assume that they are free to behave like strumpets, while young men are expected to conform to the rules of chivalry. And worse, the law is mainly on the side of the young women – unless the male perpetrator is tied into the Democrat Ruling Class, in which case she is a gold-digging whore.

You are correct, Hypatia, I for one have paid no attention to this story. Did the young woman encourage 7 horny males to have sex with her? Was the woman gang raped? Did she even have sex at all, and this is merely her fantasy? Don’t know. Don’t care.

What I do know is that all of us human beings make mistakes and have regrets. When that happens, we should learn from our mistake and move on – not run to Daddy and demand that he makes it all better.

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There are a couple of strange things about the stats in this post. First, the TFR in the US is generally estimated as 1.6, well below either of the cited values for liberal and conservative women. Granted, those figures are for completed fertility rather than an anverage over women of all ages but it’s hard to imagine that the difference would so great. Second, the graph implies that fertility has been on the rise since 2000, which contradicts other data.

The post makes vague reference to a source of data without specifics or a link. Given the extraordinary claims made, a more specific citation is needed before this can be taken seriously.

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As the demoncrats make clear 24/7, this country has devolved to be about only one thing: power. AND, through carefully contrived social justice jitsu, has given power to VICTIMS. Thus, we live in a time when women can have it both ways. They can be ever so empowered, and yet suddenly become victims of boys/men, who have been portrayed as unfeeling aggressive brutes (or light-hearted, effeminate quasi-males) in media and entertainment for several generations. The feminine princess is dead. Long live the neo-princess, who can go either way - powerful or shrinking violent.

Apparently there is a series of texts that shows this was consensual, if rather depraved, behavior by all concerned. It was not illegal, not rape - just disgusting. It has turned into participant’s (now victim’s) remorse with accusations of rape as the weapon.

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I just read an article about this by a Cornell student. He says the school is encouraging student sex at every turn, and sponsors many seminars and..I reckon you’d call ‘em conferences, about how to obtain maximum sexual satisfaction, including encouragement of bondage techniques, group orgies and sex toys. Apparently all Cornell students are supposed to be open to every kind of sexual experience, all the time. NO Cornell student, if this piece is accurate, can possibly claim to be uninitiated about sex.

There is no stopping a bad idea! Despite the attitude when my kid was in middle school, when she got to college everybody had to attend seminars about avoiding non-consensual sez. But it seems that by now, the polymorphous perversity movement has moved up to the college level.

Let’s go back to telling kids that fornication is BAD! That makes it more fun anyway.

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It comes down to denying women agency. Whereas, as I said, back in 1972 it seemed like we were empowering women. Women could initiate sex and they should and did. Oh but later it came to be cast as “Did I really want to sleep with all those guys?” I actually had one of my college friends call and ask me that question. I said”Oh yeah, you did want to! I was there. You’re good!” But of course that wasn’t what she wanted to hear. Now, she wants to believe she was forced into promiscuity.

Incredible. After fighting so hard to get power, “choice”, agency, women are now fighting to deny themselves those things.

Women need “help” with everything, from sexual initiation to motherhood. That was the theme of the Clancy protesters: “She TRIED to get help!” the subtext being that without “help”, women can’t even be relied upon not to murder their children. Surely a therapeutic culture can go no further than that.

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Denying agency in one sense while empowering women to destroy people through false rape charges. Feeling insulted or slighted? Here’s a quick and dirty way to get revenge. That’s some real power.

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Wonderful, isn’t it? Here we are in the run-up to an election in a world in which Europe is quivering on the edge of nuclear war the day that Russia’s patience runs out; the Middle East, source of much of the world’s fuel, is in flames; we can’t make the shoes on our feet or the clothes on our backs … or even the contraceptives and abortion equipment that young women need; we have an unsustainable trade deficit and an unsustainable national debt; and a failing educational system.

Instead of any of those issues being front & center, the Usual Suspects want to focus on the whining of a privileged college student who clearly was/is a nymphomaniac – a known category which long pre-dates even the 1960s.

Bread & circuses!

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Yes, okay, power— but this is a ruinous price to pay for it…

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You’re right, it shouldn’t be a big deal, shouldn’t be newsworthy. But look what happened during #metoo. It’s hard to remember because it was succeeded by Covid, which was even worse. But I dont want to go back to that era.

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1972? Don’t you mean 1872?

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I love Heather Mac Donald… I will rape murder and pillage for her

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Some years ago, I had lunch with the then-Police Chief in a neighboring town. He was in his wind-down years after a long & interesting career, with a mountain of interesting stories.

One of his earlier appointments had been as Head of the Sex Crimes Unit in a large city. Regularly, upper middle class parents would come in and report their daughter told them she had been raped at a party. Police would investigate.

A surprising thing was that most times there were witnesses to the act – it seems that private sex had rather gone out of style. And technology being what it is, those friends of the boy or girl had videoed the action on their cell phones.

The police officer then had the delicate duty of calling in the parents and showing them the video of their naked writhing daughter eagerly participating in the act(s). He would tell the parents they were free to pursue the claim of rape, but this video would be shown to the jury as evidence in any trial. Usually, that was the end of the case.

I have sometimes wondered if that was the time those teenage girls started to grow up. They were no longer cute little girls who could get their way with a few crocodile tears. They were now women, fully responsible & accountable for their own decisions and their own actions – stupid or smart. Maybe those false rape claims had a beneficial effect for the girls in the longer term?

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Women maybe but responsible and accountable? Not so much. Girls in women’s bodies is more like it.

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Ok – I succumbed. I clicked on a headline about the Cornell slutty nymphomaniac, and was appalled. The female accuser is decorously referred to as Jane Doe – as if every student at Cornell does not have her name and probably her phone number. Well, not every student; the Indian & Chinese students will be studying too hard to pay any attention to what the White Girls do.

In sharp contrast, the names and photos of the accused male students (presumed innocent in the eyes of what we used to call “The Law”) are posted for everyone to see – and will be on the internet for all eternity. When those students graduate and apply for jobs, there is no doubt that the women in HR will be able to identify them and nix their prospects. Even if justice prevails and those students are found Not Guilty in a court of law, their names and reputations will have been stained forever.

If rape is such a heinous crime that the accuser is allowed to lodge her complaint anonymously, then surely justice demands that those accused of rape – perhaps falsely – should get the same anonymity as young Ms. Doe. And false accusations of rape should result in the accuser receiving the penalties and punishments that would have applied to the rapist if the case had been genuine.

But we live for now in a gynocracy – although who can say how long it will last.

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No dear @Gavin, we don’t live in a “gynocracy”. Or maybe we do in the sense that Neolithic societies which worshipped an all-devouring mother goddess lived in a gynocracy. But it was still the men who decided who her human sacrifices would be, and who hurled them into her fiery maw.

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