In response to an anti-feminist column in American University’s student newspaper, The Eagle, someone vandalized newspaper stands yesterday.
In his March 28 column March 28 column, titled, “Dealing with AU’s anti-sex brigade,” Alex Knepper wrote that “the goal of contemporary feminism and Gay Party activism is not to explain sex, but to abolish its passion.” He calls feminists “a sniveling bunch of emotional cripples.”
And he even goes so far as to drop this gem of knowledge:
“Feminism envisions a bedroom scene in which two amorphous, gender-neutral blobs ask each other “Is this OK with you?” before daring to move their lips any lower on the other’s body.”
And somehow he transitions all of this in to what he believes is the non-existence of date rape (yes, we went from “Gay Party Activists” and feminists to bedroom exploits to his views on date rape.)
“Let’s get this straight: any woman who heads to an EI party as an anonymous onlooker, drinks five cups of the jungle juice, and walks back to a boy’s room with him is indicating that she wants sex, OK? To cry “date rape” after you sober up the next morning and regret the incident is the equivalent of pulling a gun to someone’s head and then later claiming that you didn’t ever actually intend to pull the trigger.”
In response to the article, according to the Washington City Paper, an unknown person trashed several newsstands, strewing newspapers around and posted signs reading “NO ROOM FOR RAPE APOLOGISTS.”
A few thousand were thrown in front of The Eagle newsroom.
In response, Knepper, who is gay, said:
“I’m also very concerned with the highly fragile view of women that this promotes: I can’t say something that offends them without stirring them to vandalism? Carmen Rios states that my column can act as a ‘trigger’ for survivors. Does anyone treat men with kid gloves like this?”
The Eagle staff plan to hold an open forum discussion about the article and the following vandalism incident.