At U. Michigan Withholding Sex or Discounting Feelings Equals ‘Sexual Violence’
Who comes up with these insane policies? Every week brings a new story like this.
Derek Draplin of the College Fix reported.
University of Michigan: Withholding Sex, Discounting Feelings are ‘Sexual Violence’
Examples of abuse listed on the University of Michigan’s domestic violence awareness website say “sexual violence” includes “withholding sex and affection” and “discounting the partner’s feelings regarding sex” – definitions that have come under fire by some men’s rights activists.
The terms, found under the heading “definitions,” also suggest verbal or psychological abuse include: “insulting the partner; ignoring the partner’s feelings; withholding approval as a form of punishment; yelling at the partner; labeling the partner with terms like crazy [and] stupid.”
Janet Bloomfield, social media director for “A Voice For Men,” an activist group that counters feminist extremism and misandry, took aim at these University of Michigan examples, first on her Twitter account over the summer and more recently in an email to The College Fix.
“These kinds of policies contribute to an increasing level of sexual misconduct hysteria and essentially create a chilling climate for young men,” Bloomfield said. “When things like ‘withholding sex’ and ‘ignoring a partner’s feelings’ are framed as a pattern of behavior that is abusive, they are not only pathologizing normal relationship behaviors, but they are opening the door for vindictive or spurned partners to make allegations that can have profound effects for the accused.”
Currently the higher education world is gripped by the so-called campus rape culture, in which the widely touted yet largely unsubstantiated stat that one in five women will be sexually assaulted or raped while in college is oft repeated during mandated sexual assault seminars at universities nationwide.
On the University of Michigan website, it lists various definitions of abuse as created by a campus coalition called “The University of Abuse Hurts Initiative,” a 2009 undertaking that aimed to stop abuse among students and the campus community.
University of Michigan: Withholding Sex, Discounting Feelings are ‘Sexual Violence’ (The College Fix)
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Those definitions aren’t just a threat young men, they’re a threat to sane people.
Those definitions are so broad and so vague they effectively criminalize both normal behavior – withholding approval as a form of punishment – as well as truly evil behavior.
Coupled with the problem that they define violence as male-on-female ONLY, you have a recipe for complete tyranny.
Well, if withholding sex is sexual violence, then I was a victim all throughout college, and throughout my marriage.
If withholding sex is sexual violence then a lot of husbands will have grounds for prosecution.