MND reader Steven DeLuca comments about an article appearing in today’s edition of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Sunday, May 24, 2009, under VOICES…
“A time to rejoice and a time to be heart broken” (click to open in new window)
“Emma Shaw Crane was chosen as the top student out of 6,800 seniors graduating from UC Berkely, based on grades and community commitment. This is the address she gave at Friday’s commencement…”
I am not going to write her entire speech but I will mention that under her photos, cute white girl, age 23, … has a long history of activism with her parents.
She first spoke about wishing us all a happy “Harvey Milk Day” and then she discussed how black males were killed not far from Berkeley “…because they were poor and black”. She somehow missed gender here but when she got into gender, this “smart girl” gave us a headline quote from the world of women’s studies…
She said:
“Even here, in this university, one in three women will be sexually assaulted by someone else at this university. And I see this as violence that is systemic and there is no way to guarantee our own safety.”
Was it Ishmael Reed who wrote that one black man in 21 will be a homicide victim in his life time — which was hard to believe. Then Time or Newsweek repeated those shocking numbers. I believe for white men it’s about 1 in 150, and for white women 1 in 350 (Old figures but close enough to make the point that as a white woman is pretty safe compared to the rest of us, particularly if compared to men.
In a culture where we get feminist propaganda every day in the media I would still expect the top mind from Berkeley to think, damn, one in three, how many is that a week? Where are the police cars? Why haven’t I heard any one screaming about it for a month or two or three?
But if violence is systemic … feminist propaganda is endemic.
How bad has the propaganda gotten? Last year when I Goggled coal mining the first thing I saw was a photo of two women on their knees hauling a cart of coal… I was looking for male death rates, later thinking, after first finding women hitched up like donkey that when students do research they must assume women were more exploited than men hitched up like cattle and all… OR, if in the order of importance women pulling a cart is more harmful than male deaths then put women pulling carts first?
I also got a women’s history lesson on a cracker jacks box as a prize last year. How disappointing when even at my age I would have liked a little toy… I can only wonder how many times this young women has heard the 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 quote as a student of PC Berkeley – so many times that she hasn’t enough doubt, or respect for males, to even bother to find out if it’s true?
I guess she thought that between being “smart” and her “women’s intuition” she could not be MsGuided by propaganda but still, think of how many “victims” she believes are graduating with her, and how many perps too… if women were 60 percent of graduates and I am not sure how it works at Berkeley, but with 6,800 graduating, that’s a lot of women and to think 1 in 3 was sexually assaulted, in four years, wow! Hard to believe.
But evidently not that hard.
If anyone with clout wants to find the article [or have a copy mailed to them ] ask.
If TABS or Radar or YOU want to contact the paper and tell them where the 1 in 3 number came from… please do.
Steven DeLuca
Mendocino County, California
I and the public know
what all school children learn,
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return — W.H. Auden
what all school children learn,
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return — W.H. Auden
