A little over 15 years ago, I was briefly a member of NOW, but I left because they became too fringe and irrelevant. Lately, it seems all they are is a mouthpiece for far left causes vs. an organization for all women. So it’s perhaps not surprising that NOW has not said one peep about all the of the rapes and sexual assaults going on at Occupy Wall Street camps. This is just the latest one:
Where did I found out about this? Not on NOW’s website, but ironically, the right-leaning BigGovernment blog, which has been doing a great job covering the various assaults on women at the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) camps. Of course, critics will say they are just trying to discredit OWS, but on the other side, could we perhaps wonder if pro-OWS groups aren’t purposefully ignoring serious assault charges because they don’t want the movement discredited?
It’s not just an isolated incident. The first story I read was about a learning disabled girl in Ohio who was told to share a tent with a strange man at Occupy Cleveland. A 14-year-old runaway experienced numerous incidents of statutory rape at Occupy Dallas. Here are a few more stories:
Three men threatened to kill 24-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester: cops
(She had reported a sexual assault to the police.)
Woman raped in tent at Glasgow George Square protest camp
(She wasn’t just raped, she was gang-raped.)
Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
(Great, not just rape but child prostitution.)
A sexual free-for-all seems to be contributing to the dangerous environment for women:
Protesters Having Sex, Losing Virginity At Occupy Wall Street
(‘One protester who left his girlfriend behind in California has “shared sleeping bags with… several women”…’)
Occupy Madison permit not re-issued
(Public masturbation was one the reasons cited for the permit being revoked.)
Public sex and masturbation may seem to be in the spirit of “free love,” but ultimately, such environments put a lot of pressure on young women to be sexually active and could potentially put young men into a state of hyper-arousal. Unfortunately, a few of those men who are angry at a system of injustice may be all too happy to take out their feelings of powerlessness on a young woman nearby. Rape would give them a feeling of power and control they are otherwise not feeling in the world.
Rape and outright assault aren’t the only problems. Women have been harassed in other ways, such as this woman who ran a small coffee kiosk near Occupy San Diego:
After years of being in business, she shut down due to fearing for her life. She had supported Occupy Wall Street prior to her experiences with the negative elements at the park next to her business.
Now the big question is, will Occupy Wall Street take this problem seriously? Or will they try to sweep it under the rug? Sadly, most reports lately are suggesting that women are being instructed to deal with assault within the OWS communities, rather than taking problems to outside authorities, perhaps to keep negative press away. This is sickening.
The modern feminist movement of the 1960s actually sprouted up in part because the left at the time was hostile to women’s issues. “Free love” became “free sex” and disrespect for women. The feminist movement was a backlash to that treatment. The question is, will a new feminist movement arise from the treatment of women at Occupy Wall Street? Or are young women too brainwashed by our overly sexual culture to realize how much sexual pressure they are really under?
Perhaps men will join a new movement this time. In this last video I share, men claim to be victims of assault and sexual assault at Occupy Ottawa – and the group shows an extremely hostile attitude towards the “outsider” who wishes to film the meeting:


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