Cathy Young Wants Feminists to Describe Rape As "Ugly Sexual Encounters." Don't Let Her.

It might be irony, the way it's commonly portrayed. Or it might just be rank hypocrisy. Whatever it is, Cathy Young, in her May 20, 2015, post embodies it.The caption under the istock photo the Washington Post chose to accompany this vacuous and alarmist piece was the following: "We need to stop prosecuting bad behavior as rape."Really? As if a non-stranger rape prosecution tidal wave has formed, blocking all other efforts to seek justice at the courthouse?No, that's not happening, but thankfully we have Cathy Young showing us the way to avoid such abominations, what with her two anecdotes about regretted sexual encounters and literally nothing else. What's funny, though, is that Cathy herself admits fully that she 1) didn't view the negative sexual encounters she describes as a crime, and 2) she didn't report them as such.Welcome, Cathy, to reality. That's what pretty much all women and men do, and by the way? It's what the vast majority of victims do when the "encounters" actually are, objectively and by any statutory definition, rape. And this wasn't just when you were young, Cathy. It's still true now. And it probably will be for a very long time.I'm sure Cathy would point out though, that what prompted her breathless piece was the idea that legions of women like her, armed now with 2015-era "feminist" notions of victimhood, are poised to suddenly push open the floodgates of litigation to incorrectly and unjustly imprison men who simply used "seductiveness" to turn a "no" into a "yes." Ms. Young would have us believe that a few reasonable initiatives regarding consent, and a renewed movement against an age-old scourge have somehow eviscerated fair judgment in the average person and created a monster of inaccurate reports and false victims.Garbage.In fact, rapists now, just as rapists when Cathy Young was in her teens or twenties, rely on myths, shame, and fear in order to keep their victims silenced. In terms of what Ms. Young has brought to the issue, this means being 1) silently obedient to Cathy Young's interpretation of their experiences, and 2) repentantly observant of the Washington Post's clever istock choice of an obviously whoring slut searching for her pumps under a man's bed.The message? If you believe you've been raped, you're probably wrong, and you probably did something to either bring it on or otherwise allow for it to happen.So blame feminism. Blame the "liberal media." Blame yourselves, certainly.Just never blame the rapist. In Cathy Young's world, there are far fewer of them than there are hysterical and litigious versions of you.