Christina Hoff Sommers: Today’s Millennials Will Have To Take Back Their Freedoms

After her recent appearances at other academic institutions, Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers's latest speaking engagement was probably a refreshing walk in the park.

According to this, Dr. Sommers spoke recently at a lunchtime discussion at the Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington DC (which is run by the conservative-leaning Hillsdale College). Among other things, she had advice for Millennials  –

“I am convinced that the Millennial generation is going to have to do what previous generations have done. They are going to have to rise up and take back their democratic freedoms,” she said, adding that she views many of the activists who have promoted the concepts of “safe spaces,” microaggressions,” and “trigger warnings” as “crusading authoritarians.”

She also spoke about how most young people have adopted the "grim feminist worldview" as truth. Which explains why liberals can cry about "sexist" statues or arrest guys for "manspreading" on the subway. Feminists in academia puts themselves out in front of the issues and let these stupid things go while the rest of us are wondering "What in the ever-loving crap…?"

The whole article is great and full of common sense logic that we've come to know and love about the Factual Feminist (as opposed to oh-so-rational liberal feminists screaming "YOU SEXIST [F-bomb] [expletive] [you-know-what] [so-and-so]"). For example, Dr. Sommers talks about how sexual assault statistics get exaggerated and blown out of proportion to fit the stupid "25% of women are raped on college campuses" narrative –

“I am often criticized by hardline grievance feminists who believe that American women are a victim class and no amount of evidence can persuade them that they are wrong,” she said.

 

She said she has “never denied the reality of campus sexual assault… but I have questioned exaggerated statistics,” because she does not think that they help victims.

 

“Quite the contrary, it is because I take the crime of assault so seriously that I think we need serious research, sober statistics,” Sommers said, adding that “the more elite and expensive the school, the more likely it is a hotbed of trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggression defense initiatives, and mock justice.”

 

Sommers said that the “rape culture” concept gained national prominence after an NPR and Center for Public Integrity report, which she characterized as misleading, led people to believe that college campuses are hotbeds of sexual violence. Combined with the response of the U.S. Department of Education, many of these activists became “empowered” while universities changed their policies in order to avoid risking federal investigation.

After listening to liberal feminists go nuts because of selfie criticism or the fact that God is referred to as male, it's nice to hear someone speak sense and wisdom.

Go, Dr. Sommers, go!