By Selwyn Duke

If you want to know why lies seem increasingly common, it’s
because we persecute people for honesty.

A good example is the recent statements tennis star Serena
Williams made about the Steubenville rape
case. Commenting on the matter in a Rolling
Stone interview, the Wimbledon champion opined:

Do you think it was fair, what they
[the assailants] got? They did something stupid, but I don’t know. I’m not
blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your
parents should teach you — don’t take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why
was she that drunk where she doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse.
She’s lucky. Obviously I don’t know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she
shouldn’t have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something,
then that’s different.

Now, where Williams went wrong was in questioning the
fairness of the sentence. The two assailants, high-school football players Trent
Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, received, respectively, two years and one year in
juvenile detention for the extreme sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, abuse
punctuated by disgusting, evil attitudes and commentary. In my view, they got
off easy. But isn’t Williams correct in saying that the girl also made it easy?

Before anyone thinks such opinions are the result of some
kind of tennis-induced dementia (I have quite a history in the game myself),
let me place this in perspective. If I’m falling-down drunk and walk through a
dangerous neighborhood at 2 AM, wearing gold jewelry and flashing cash, and I
get knocked over the head and robbed, will anyone shrink from stating that I
imperiled myself via poor decisions?

This isn’t synonymous with saying I asked for it any more
than a person with a poor lifestyle asks for a heart attack. But just like the eating
of too much saturated fat, my drunkenness would be a risk factor.

So correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s still something
called “acting stupidly.” And unless there has been a late addendum to the
Bible, God has not yet granted man a special dispensation from the consequences
of it.

The point is that warnings and wise counsel parents used to
routinely give young girls— “Dress modestly,” “Don’t go to a man’s home alone,”
etc. — are now frowned upon in the name of political correctness. Instead, we
instill them with the notion that the sexes are the same and, by golly, if something
isn’t dangerous for a guy, there’s no reason why you should have to “modify
your behavior” in that department. Equality! Interestingly, though, we don’t
apply this thinking to less politically incorrect crimes.

For instance, just consider this passage
from WiseGeek on how to avoid being mugged:

Because muggings tend to follow
certain patterns, people can avoid victimhood by traveling smart. Try to avoid
being alone on the street or on public transit between 8:00 PM and 2:00 AM.
Travel with a group after dark, and stick to well lighted areas where there are
other people around. Make sure that your valuables are hidden and secured, as well.
Keep things like cell phones, cameras, and personal music players out of sight
and out of temptation.

Wow, a lot of behavior modifications recommended there. And
could you imagine if you told women that to decrease the chances of rape they
should make sure their “valuables are hidden” and “out of sight and out of
temptation”? I mean, it’s almost as if they’re saying it’s your fault if you
get mugged.

This brings us to the real War on Women: the ones waging it
here are actually those who, in the name of a twisted leftist agenda, seek to
suppress information that would help women more safely negotiate life. So,
young people, I’ll tell you what you need to hear:

1. Good
   things don’t happen when you get falling-down drunk. And if you have to drink
   to have fun, you have a problem.
2. Girls,
   don’t think you can keep up with the guys in the drinking department. Heavier
   people can metabolize more of any substance; consequently, an amount of alcohol
   that a man 50 pounds heavier than you can “hold” may be enough to cause you
   serious impairment.
3. Girls,
   also know that if you get inebriated, your chances of being raped will be greater. And the increase in
   probability is directly proportional to your degree of drunkenness. This is
   simply an inescapable truth.

In fact, in those dark ages decades ago, when people
entertained notions of right and wrong, getting drunk was known as an “occasion
of sin.” And you were obligated to avoid such things because they are
situations in which you’re more likely to do wrong — or have wrong done against
you. But we’ve evolved beyond such talk now, and I’m sure leftists certainly
don’t want to hear it. After all, they’re heavily invested (at least
emotionally) in the rape-center business.

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