{"id":549,"date":"2000-10-20T03:04:39","date_gmt":"2000-10-20T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/10\/20\/vawa2-gender-apartheid-in-1995\/"},"modified":"2000-10-20T03:04:39","modified_gmt":"2000-10-20T03:04:39","slug":"vawa2-gender-apartheid-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/10\/20\/vawa2-gender-apartheid-in-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"VAWA2: Gender Apartheid &#8220;In 1995,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/mcelroy\/mcelroy28.html\">VAWA2: Gender Apartheid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1995, Christy Brzonkala became the first person to sue under the Act over a rape that allegedly occurred in her dormitory room while she was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The accused men had been cleared by both a university judicial committee and a criminal grand jury. Although the evidence could not sustain a criminal charge, Brzonkala used the VAWA to bring a civil case against them in federal court. The advantages to feminists of using a civil court to punish an alleged criminal wrong were clear: civil courts require only a preponderance of the evidence (51%) rather than &#8220;beyond a reasonable doubt&#8221; (99%) to &#8220;convict.&#8221; Moreover, the standards and procedures are far looser in a civil proceeding. In short, the evidence required to ruin a man\u2019s life was watered down to meet feminist requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAWA2: Gender Apartheid &#8220;In 1995, Christy Brzonkala became the first person to sue under the Act over a rape that allegedly occurred in her dormitory room while she was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The accused men had been cleared by both a university judicial committee and a criminal grand jury. Although the evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}