In case you haven’t heard, there is a new high-profile college campus rape case, this time at Cornell University. A young woman claims she was raped during a party by more than one male student, but others say she gave consent to the sexual activity.
During a recent interview, left wing professor Camille Paglia tore into today’s feminists for trying to have it both ways on the issue of sexual consent, suggesting that women cannot claim to be empowered and then demand to be treated like children.
It’s not the first time that Paglia has made this type of point and it probably won’t be the last.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
QUESTION: You don’t think there’s a problem with sexual assault? Because a lot of women are coming forward now.
CAMILE PAGLIA: No. In cases of real rape, of course it should be prosecuted. Of course real rape is a crime.
But this is not real rape.
We’ve been arguing about dating encounters with miscommunications now for decades. It’s absolutely infantilizing to women. It must stop.
QUESTION: But you know that a lot of women are afraid of sexual assault or have been sexually assaulted.
Should they not be able to go and drink and play beer pong and get drunk like the guys do? They live in fear.
CAMILE PAGLIA: If you go to a fraternity-house party, with the chaos going on in the living-room area, and a young man says to you, “Would you like to go up to my room?” I’m sorry — you are consenting to sex.
