Well, I must admit that this is an audacious new offensive in the War On Women that the American Enterprise Institute has launched just in time for mid-term elections. Leading the charge is one Caroline Kitchens, conservatives' stand-in for a hip young thing, urging her millennial sisters to throw caution to the wind and have a good old time on their girls' night out because there's no such thing as date rape -- it's simply the Liberal Feminists newest invention to rob America of its all-American-ness.
AEI bills Ms Kitchens as a "senior research associate" which sounds scientific and Think-Tanky. What it really means is that young Caroline graduated from Duke, two years ago with a BA in Poli-Sci and got herself an internship at AEI. Following graduation, AEI hired Kitchens on as a Research Assistant and in the astonishingly short period of two years, the precocious Ms Kitchens has blasted through AEI's glass ceiling, rising from fetching Jonah Goldberg's lattes to Senior Research something-or-other advising the young flowers of conservative womanhood in the ways of the world.
And she should be ashamed of herself.
I hate to come across as mean to the poor thing but these pathological social conservatives simply must be stopped and blunt force is the only thing the left hasn't tried enough of.
This is groundless, unscientific damaging hokum coming from the lowest, most cynical depths of political propaganda and feeding young, impressionable women this ideological pablum should be criminal. Ms Kitchens, you are young and might not be fully aware of it but your handlers are putting you on camera to say really idiotic stuff that most of us are sane and intelligent enough to recognize as idiotic stuff. We're not stupid and, presumably, neither are you. You are blaming the victims of violent crimes and diminishing their experiences and their humanity, while simultaneously letting the perpetrators feel justified in their crime.
But, if you're bent on pursuing this sad little career of yours, take a tip from Grandma, dear, and lose the Ideal Conservative Woman look. You're just not going to win over that many coeds looking like something out of a Desperate Housewives audition.
Sheeeesh. These people are nuts . . .
Update for sfinx below the squiggle:
Commenter sfinx made an excellent point with this request:
It would be great if you'd include some excerpts from the vid for those who can't watch it or don't want to add to its views.
This Bud's for you sfinx --
"our fear of being drugged and sexually assaulted by a predatory stranger in a bar is not grounded in reality."
"Panic and questionable allegations about the date-rape drug are rampant. Everything from lip gloss to nail polish to coasters has been invented to protect women from rapists armed with roofies. But the evidence doesn't match the hype."
"Most commonly, victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault are severely intoxicated, often from their own volition," Kitchens says. "Paranoia over the date-rape drug causes us to misplace our anxieties, and feminists should be concerned that women are modifying their behavior on their girls nights' out in order to protect themselves from some vague, improbable threat. So why are we all so scared of roofies?"
Kitchens uses the case as an example of accusations that lack evidence.
"At least one woman marked with a red 'X' ... had multiple drinks that evening and she didn't end up hospitalized," she says. "As for the drugs, police did find marijuana and Adderall when they searched the fraternity house, but no evidence of date-rape drugs ever turned up. Now this story isn't unique -- panic and questionable allegations about the date-rape drug are rampant."