Weekly Standard weighs in on why we should be glad that all this Duke University "rape" nonsense is behind us

Charlotte Allen, whom I'll just call Char-explained to me via the Weekly Standard in an article titled Duke's Tenured Vigilantes that rape is really just a theory, after all.

Lets start with the scare quotes shall we? I simply love how Char frames the “lacrosse rape case” at Duke University as though sexual assault is so silly and should be mocked by her.

The entire article is chock-full of the usual bullshit putting the blame on the victim, blah, blah, blah. Referring to victim as the accuser or mentioning over and over that the victim was a stripper/exotic dancer/escort and all that sort of BS that rape apologists love to harp on.

Here are a few tidbits:

Her [the victim] descriptions of her assailants' appearances also changed on December 21, apparently so as to accommodate the lanky, six-foot-three Finnerty; she had earlier described all three as chubby or heavyset and of medium height.

I can presume that if a woman is being gang-raped it would be highly likely that being able to recall the physical appearance of the assailants would be difficult at best.

Finally, she [the victim] moved the time of the alleged assault a half-hour backwards, to around 11:30 on the night of March 13, which could get around Seligmann's airtight alibi of cell-phone, taxicab, and ATM records indicating he had left the house before the midnight hour at which she had previously maintained that the gang rape occurred.

ATM records do not mean shit. Please, isn't it possible a buddy may have used his card?

Indeed, there had been two racial epithets let loose that night, as the accuser and Roberts left the party after dancing for only a few minutes (according to Roberts) because the accuser, paid $400 in advance, declined to perform, whether because she was insulted by crude remarks made by the partygoers, because she was too drunk to dance when she got there, or because she had combined alcohol with a prescription muscle relaxant she had taken earlier in the day.

Translation=She was paid money for a service she did not provide, drunk and an addict so she deserved it.

As the two women departed, one lacrosse player shouted the n-word at Roberts and another yelled, "Hey, bitch, thank your grandpa for my nice cotton shirt!"--a riff on a Chris Rock routine that the shouter undoubtedly thought was funny. Everyone would agree that both remarks were unacceptable, but there is no evidence that either Finnerty or Evans made either of them, and Seligmann was already elsewhere, as electronic records showed.

What? Chris Rock calls women bitches all the time. Remember these are nice young boys getting cash at ATM's to pay for strippers whom they call the n-word and bitch.

Mike Nifong's handling of the case was clearly outrageous. But he would probably not have gone so far, indeed would not have dared to go so far, had he not been egged on by two other groups that rushed just as quickly to judge the three accused young men guilty of gross and racially motivated carnal violence.

Char can't even bring herself to use appropriate terms like rape or sexual assault. She chooses carnal violence.

Despite the repeated attempts by the three to clear themselves, a substantial and vocal percentage--about one-fifth--of the Duke University arts and sciences faculty and nearly all of the mainstream print media in America quickly organized themselves into a hanging party. Throughout the spring of 2006 and indeed well into the late summer, Nifong had the nearly unanimous backing of this country's (and especially Duke's) intellectual elite as he explored his lurid theories of sexual predation and racist stonewalling.

That's right, the lefties are sitting around conspiring about kinky things like rape.

"They fed off each other [Duke University and the intellectual elite]" said Steven Baldwin, a Duke chemistry professor who finally broke his faculty colleagues' own wall of silence on October 24, publishing a letter in the Duke student newspaper, the Chronicle, denouncing his fellow professors for what he called their "shameful" treatment of Seligmann and Finnerty and rebuking the Duke administration for having "disowned its lacrosse-playing student athletes." In April, Duke president and English professor Richard Brodhead had abruptly suspended not only Seligmann and Finnerty but also the remainder of the Duke lacrosse season, plus a third player, Ryan McFadyen (also recently reinstated), who had nothing to do with the alleged assault but had made the mistake of sending an email to his teammates on the early morning of March 14 describing a plan to "kill" and "skin" some "strippers" in his dorm room (like the "cotton shirt" remark, this was another tasteless joke, parodying Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho). That same day, April 5, Brodhead told the lacrosse team's coach, Michael Pressler, that he had until the end of the day to leave campus for good.

Kill and skin some strippers in his dorm room?? I have read American Psycho-and the guy is a sadistic rapist lunatic and the connection is a little too close for comfort. Not to mention the fact that there is something very wrong with a person who shoots friends e-mails with topics such as killing and skinning strippers.

The remainder of the article bashes the administration of Duke University for any action they may have taken against the accused. Also implying that the Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong is full of shit, and should be charged himself for even thinking of charging such nice young privileged white college boys with rape. Imagine! A district attorney charging the men who committed rape with rape. That is INSANE!!

Char at one point writes:

[...] but why would these "macho and entitled" young athletes who could have any Duke "lacrosstitute" of their choice free of charge, or, given their parents' money, pay for a real prostitute if they wanted to, bother with rape?

Whoops, someone forgot to do their research; rape is not about sex, it is about violence, power, control and dominance. Come on Char.

Anyway, I will be writing till the end of time with all of the myths that Char reinforces, not to mention the long tedious nature of this article. But this much is true-men rape women far more than women make false accusations and even Char states, Means and opportunity were presumably there that night [...] so it does not take fucking brain surgeon to put together what happened that night and realize that when it walks like a duck.......