Bias against men and boys in academia, and the fanatical opposition to due process when they are accused of Title IX-related offenses, is an intergenerational, decades-old problem. Many are unaware of the nature of that bias – its sophistry, duplicity, spite, and sometimes sheer hatred.

We are republishing and expanding “The Face of Anti-Male Bias in Academia” below as an informative resource. Originally published in September 2013, this is a compilation of visuals demonstrating anti-male bias promoted in academia by students, administrators, or faculty. Many of these phenomena are directly related to presumptions of guilt toward men and boys accused of Title IX-related offenses. This resource is the sibling of another one of our compilations: “The Language of Anti-Male Bias in Academia” which we also hope to republish soon. You can also visit our Title IX Lawsuits Database for examples of life-altering injustices against male students.

We have provided images and descriptions below. If you value equal treatment, ask the most fundamental question regarding equality as you go through these images: would such messages be acceptable if they were directed toward any other group?

The “Castrate” Banner – Duke University

In 2006, three male students who were members of Duke University’s lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. With overwhelming evidence in support of the falsely accused, the district attorney went so far as to declare them innocent. Before that happened, however, the lacrosse team was suspended, their coach was fired, and the students were subjected to a campaign of relentless harassment. In the picture above are students who are supportive of the false accuser. They are parading a banner around campus advocating the castration of the falsely accused students. Ironically, these students claim to be taking a stand against sexual violence…by openly advocating sexual violence in the form of forced castration. Far from disapproving of the message, Duke faculty thanked them for “not waiting.”

Have you ever heard of students parading a banner through campus demanding the dismemberment of rape accusers, only to be later thanked by professors who regarded themselves as enlightened? Where in the world, and in what time period, might you find such barbarism?

The Duke Lacrosse false rape case was a spectacle to behold. It revealed – as in the above picture – that prejudice and hatred were not merely the behavior of “lone wolves” or “random assholes;” on the contrary, they had become part of the communally shared value system of higher education.

The false accuser Crystal Mangum was not prosecuted for filing a false report. Being free to do so, she went on to stab her boyfriend to death in 2011, a crime for which she was convicted.

Both Sexes Drunk, Man Presumed Rapist – Coastal Carolina University

This poster tells us both sexes hooked up while drunk, but Jake is the only one charged with rape and “a woman who is intoxicated cannot give her legal consent. It only takes a single day to ruin your life.” The message is clear: CCU thinks it is acceptable to ruin the lives of male students based on their own double-standards and gender bias.

We might be tempted to think CCU is a bit misogynistic as well by implying that women are not capable of responsibility for their own behavior, but given that men are punished for mutual behavior it’s hard to tell whether this is the infantilization of women or – a la The Whipping Boy, a story where a commoner must accept punishment for the wrongs done by a prince – the royalization of them.

The message of this poster is not confined to just CCU; Duke University’s Dean of Students and Assistant VP for Student affairs, Sue Wasiolek, testified in a lawsuit that “Assuming it is a male and female, it is the responsibility of the male to gain consent before proceeding with sex” in such situations.

“Steps to Preventing Rape” Poster – The University of Ottawa

According to The Fulcrum, a student publication at the University of Ottawa, this poster hung for years on a window at the Women’s Resource Centre on campus. This poster informs University of Ottawa students of appropriate steps to preventing rape, such as making sure male students are confined only to well-lit areas of the campus, that they should wear bells around their necks at all times, and that they be accompanied by police wherever they go.

Can you imagine if this was hung outside a “White Student’s Center” and said such things about immigrants or people of color in this day and age? Do you think it would stay there for years?

The Wanted Poster – Duke University

In addition to carrying around a banner reading “castrate,” students supportive of the false accuser in the 2006 Duke lacrosse false rape case passed around what amounted to wanted posters with pictures of the entire team. This poster is also found in Dr. KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor’s book Until Proven Innocent, a thorough account of the horrifying false rape case.

The “Dudetip” Poster – UCLA

Profiling a student on the basis of race is bad. Profiling a student on the basis of sex is good – assuming it’s a male student, and especially if the person doing the profiling is part of the correct “team.” This poster is one of several “Dudetips” created by the UCLA student group Bruin Feminists for “Equality,” telling ordinary men how to resist their apparently irresistible urge to rape. How do you think a White Students group would be received if they posted such posters and simply changed “dudetip” to “blacktip” or “browntip”?

“She Fears You” Presentation by Dr. Keith Edwards – SIXTY Colleges and Universities

According to Dr. Keith Edwards’s removed website (of which I still have screenshots), Dr. Edwards presented his lecture “She Fears You,” complete with a presentation slide bearing those same words in big scary font, to roughly 60 colleges and universities. The goal of the program is to teach male students that female students live in fear of them, and that the only way they can reclaim their humanity is to acknowledge their conscious or unconscious complicity in “rape culture.” When this program was made mandatory for male students at Hamilton College in 2011, most of them simply walked out.

This kind of program must be approved by university administrators. If you are a student who was expelled by a school employing a Title IX/student life professional who worked at any of the sixty schools on Keith Edward’s list at the time of his presentation, please feel free to see if you can use this information in support of your gender bias claims.

“Boys Are Stupid [So Be Violent to Them]” Clothing & Accessories – Schools Across the United States

Clothing and other products featuring the message “Boys are Stupid” became popular to wear in school after the turn of the millennium. An article in People magazine tells us “Erika Kaminer is only 10, but she already knows how to make a provocative fashion statement: her T-shirt reads, ‘Boys Are Smelly;’ her watch says, ‘Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them!’ Says the Hewlett, N.Y., fourth grader of her garb: ‘I want to make boys feel bad because it’s fun.’”

Jane Ganahl, who taught at San Jose State, laughed it off in an article by arguing that two wrongs make a right (since women are targeted with biased behavior as well) and even suggested wearing a t-shirt encouraging girls to fling feces at boys. “Shut up and get a life already” the title of her article reads.

“Sorry We Hurt Your Manfeelz” – University of Toronto

Do you think hatred of men and boys should be opposed? You may be guilty of “manfeelz.” This is a protester from the 2013 lecture at the University of Toronto by Dr. Janice Fiamengo titled “What’s Wrong with Women’s Studies?” The lecture focused on misandry and intellectual dishonesty in women’s studies. Protesters pulled fire alarms to shut down the event and harassed attendees. Read the full story in the post “The University of Toronto: Cradle of a Revolution.”

Video: Students Vote Against a Campus Men’s Center – Simon Fraser University

It’s not often you see a video with a ~98% dislike rate after thousands of votes. Keenan Midgley at Simon Fraser University wanted to set up a men’s center on campus. According to a Maclean’s article, Midgley’s reasoning was that “his gender deals with more suicides, alcoholism and drug abuse, and suffers negative stereotypes just like women do. ‘As a student society, we’re supposed to represent all undergraduates. I don’t think we’re currently doing that,’” he said.

Apparently this was too much for campus activists, who decided that men should not have the right to organize or have a space to talk about their problems unless its every move obtained their stamp of approval. They accused this rather benign effort of being a breeding ground for sexism – without evidence, of course. The controversy prompted an article in The National Post titled “Shocking Anti-Male Hatred at Simon Fraser University.”

The Clothesline Project Names and Shames Male Students Without Verification / Due Process – University of Maryland

The University of Maryland is home to the Clothesline Project, an event which aims to empower victims of sexual assault by setting aside a space where they can write messages on t-shirts and leave them to hang on campus for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, for 17 years (from 1990 to 2007) many female students wrote the names of male students they accused of rape on these shirts, using this event as a forum to publicly demonize male students and ostracize them as rapists before the entire campus community.

After this went on for 17 years, the University of Maryland took action only after they were threatened with a lawsuit, telling students they could only write part of the names of their alleged assailants on the shirts. Many students were still able to use this to identify the men they accused, however. Read more in this article in The Baltimore Sun.

The Rape List – Brown University

One of the earliest photographic captures of in-your-face misandry in academia is the Rape List at Brown University, seen here as a recreation on The Phil Donahue Show which ran in the 1990s.  As an article in The Baltimore Sun reports, female students used bathroom walls to accuse male students of rape, writing their names as a “warning” to other students. When custodians scrubbed the walls clean, the list would be rewritten again. Predictably, Feminist students defined the act of erasing these accusations as “rape apologism” and “victim blaming.”

In my study of sexism and misandry in academia, this case is unique because it was perhaps the only time that a higher education administrator dared to publicly call out sexism against male students before the age of the internet and when Feminism still held an overwhelming stranglehold on the discourse on gender in academia (late 90s, early 2000). According to the article, “Robert Reichley, executive vice president for university relations. He says the university will no more tolerate anti-male graffiti than it allows misogynistic, homophobic or racist graffiti.”

The Rape List – Columbia University

More than happy to repeat history twenty-four years later, a group of activists at Columbia University decided to write the names of alleged “sexual assault violators” and “rapists” on the bathroom walls. See our article about it here.

Women-Only Parking at the University of Fraser Valley

The University of Fraser Valley has a problem. Not with violence, since records show that UFV is a rather safe campus. No, the problem is in deciding who, in those brief and isolated punctuations of time when violence occurs, should be safe from violence. Should UFV adopt an approach that does not exclude its students on the basis of sex, race, and so forth? Or should it adopt the position that some groups are more worthy of safety than others? They have chosen the latter.

One might wonder: are male students never assaulted? Are they never victims of crime? Of course they are. If the university’s argument is that women deserve special treatment because men are more likely to engage in street crime, would they also accept the rationalization that certain races should receive “dibs” on parking spaces for similar reasons? Of course not. Nor should anyone.

See our article on women-only parking at UFV here.

Poster at University of Queensland:
This Room is a “Safer Space for Anyone Who is Not a Cis-Man.”

Some questions come to mind when viewing this poster. Most importantly, shouldn’t spaces – especially ones watched over by those who claim to advocate equality – be equally safe for all people? And if a particular place is safer for one demographic, doesn’t that mean that it is less safe – i.e., more dangerous – for another?

What is the moral basis for making certain places safer for some, and more dangerous for others? What are the mechanisms by which these Feminists intend to enforce the unequal protections they wish to afford those who enter this space?

Click here to see our article addressing this poster.

Woman Burning Copies of Dr. Hoff-Sommers’s Book The War Against Boys

There’s something symbolic about burning a book that fits perfectly well with the mentality of those who oppose advocacy for men and boys in education. The burning of books has been a sign of intellectual and moral barbarism to the civilized world for decades.

Those who oppose educational equity for men and boys are often so narrow-minded and hateful that they cannot stand the mere possibility of others speaking. And you can see this played out over and over again in the articles here on free speech. You may also see our  article that addresses this book-burning in greater detail here.

“No Means No, Yes Doesn’t Mean Yes” – Radcliffe Camera at Oxford

“Who Needs Feminism” is a blog where Feminists submit pictures of themselves holding up messages telling us why we/they/everyone needs Feminism. Unfortunately, some Feminists (such as this student) aren’t exactly painting Feminism in a positive light. Double-standards are depressingly common in accuser advocacy.

Poster: One Woman is as Good as Five Men – High School Whiteboard

This one was submitted to Reddit in April of 2013. The author of the submission said “Found this in a high school classroom. I politely asked the teacher to take it down. She laughed and told me to lighten up.”

“Male Penises Should Come with Warning Labels” Poster – Career & Life Management Textbook

According to the user in his submission to Reddit, this is a poster used in anti-aids campaigns in the 90s, was featured in his Career and Life Management (CALM) textbook.

False Rape Accusers Encouraging Armed Vigilantism – University of Wyoming

False rape accuser and feminist Meg Lanker-Simons put the University of Wyoming into an uproar when she made a rape threat against herself on a Facebook page related to the university (story here). She also took part in an anti-“rape culture” rally, where numerous banners such as this one were displayed.

Wait, what’s this written in purple near the bottom? “Until the rape of women ends good men need to arm ourselves and oppose abuse with defensive…action”? Many innocent men have been killed or by grievously injured by “good men” arming themselves to “protect” women. In this case, feminists are making false rape accusations and deliberately encouraging armed vigilantism.

“Men: Stop Raping Women!” Poster – Location Unknown

The origin of this poster is unknown. It was submitted to the authors of the Community of the Wrongly Accused in December of 2009 (see here).

“Don’t Be That Guy/Girl” Posters – University of Alberta

When Women & Gender Studies Professor Lise Gotell spearheaded her “Don’t be that guy” campaign designed to “teach men not to rape,” Men’s Rights Edmonton launched their own campaign: “Don’t be that girl,” using similar language designed to see if they could handle walking a mile in men’s shoes. Instead of supporting the same message but with the sexes flipped, professors at the University of Alberta falsely accused the group of promoting “rape apologism” and “victim blaming.” Read more on the story here and here.

“Women Only” Education – Curtin U, and Elsewhere

Feminists tend to oppose segregated education where education reformists theorize that male students might benefit from classrooms geared more toward “male-friendly learning styles.” Female-only environments do not tend to draw such opposition, however.

Reproductions

The below are reproductions of visuals reported by media sources to have been used in academia. Unfortunately, we do not have the originals. We only include the information presented in media reports in these reproductions.

“Rapist of the Month” Poster – Oberlin College

I have not been able to find the poster behind this story (unfortunately, this was before the era of smartphones with cameras), which is why the above poster is my recreation of it based on news accounts I have read. An article in the Toledo Blade tells the story: at Oberlin College, Feminist students pulled an 18 year-old freshman student’s name at random from the campus directory and put his name on a poster that read “Rapist of the Month.” They then distributed these posters across the campus.

The student was in shock when he found his name on the posters while walking around campus. As reported in the article, when news of the story became public Oberlin College sophomore Emily Loyd said “So many women get their lives totally ruined by being assaulted and not saying anything. So if one guy gets his life ruined, maybe it balances out.”

“Notice: These Men are Potential Rapists” Poster – University of Maryland

Another recreation based upon the coverage I have read, since we are without the original. An article from The Baltimore Sun tells us the story: “Are nearly all male students at the University of Maryland ‘potential rapists’? Women in a feminist art class here apparently believe so. About 10 of them plastered the campus with fliers last week listing the names of virtually every male student under the heading, ‘NOTICE: THESE MEN ARE POTENTIAL RAPISTS.’”

The Feminist students rationalized publicly designating countless male students as potential rapists. “A lot of people are upset by it, but I think if a man was secure he wasn’t a rapist, he wouldn’t be threatened by the list,” said Erin Lane, a senior economics major.

Another article on this matter by The Baltimore Sun can be found here.