HOW DO YOU TELL SOMEONE THEY’RE NOT A VICTIM? “While speaking at the Network of Enlightened Women’s conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, I was asked a question about how to tell someone they’re not a victim when the evidence shows they aren’t one,” Ashe Schow writes at the Washington Examiner:

As activists expand the definition of sexual assault and push debunked statistics to claim that it is rampant on college campuses, more and more might come to see regretted or misinterpreted encounters as something more sinister. We need to figure out how to gently tell them that they are not actually victims. But that would require finding another explanation for their negative feelings.

So many accusers, especially those who say the encounter happened while they were freshmen, say they become depressed and withdrawn. They see those feelings as the result of a sexual assault. Maybe, just maybe, some of those feelings come from being away from home for the first time or feeling overwhelmed in college, and have nothing to do with the first hook up of a college career.

I know that I haven’t figured out a way to properly articulate this idea, but I’m hoping someone else figures out a way to do so.

How do we change the enormous therapy-obsessed bureaucracy of university campuses, which have created a student culture where the will to power derives from victimhood?