The Sexual Harassment Panic

Monday, June 17th, 2013

John Derbyshire discusses the sexual harassment panic surrounding our modern military:

Men who join the military are responding to widespread, innate male urges — the urge to break things and kill people, for example. Women who join the military are, by contrast, outliers in their sex. They are eccentric and prone to behave eccentrically. As a designated victim group, they are especially susceptible to the associated pathologies, e.g., victim hoaxes for attention, spite, or cash reward.

Read the whole thing and follow his many high-quality links — especially the last one.

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  1. Borepatch says:

    Nice shout out.

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