[Update: Amid some skepticism that the image above is genuine, commenter Edward’s research (below in the comments) seems to confirm that the signs are indeed on the Cornell campus.]
It is pure harassment and an effort to create a hostile environment on the Cornell campus for male students, targeting a vulnerable group unethically. There are no indications so far that Cornell is taking down these signs, which students have begun putting up on campus, though the school is obligated to do so. The signs are obviously professionally manufactured, and not cheap.
It’s too easy to imagine equivalent signs denigrating women, blacks, Muslims, gays or other minorities currently the objects of progressive pandering, so I won’t. It shouldn’t be debatable that neither Cornell nor the political Left would tolerate any of those hypothetical messages. This sign also is defamatory, stating as fact that rapes have occurred on campus, leaving the implication that the students accused by Lucy Craig in her lawsuit were perpetrators.
How many of these signs are currently being displayed? One is enough, and one is too much.
Young men have joined American Jews as a group that can only justify voting for Democrats next month with a medical diagnosis of temporary insanity, or substantial brain damage.
I can’t find this on the web. Is it AI generated? That’s a very expensive sign and post.
I right-clicked the imaged and searched with Google Lens, and the AI lead me here: https://www.threads.com/@buffalopotholebandit
The signs could still be computer-generated, and the guy could be scamming people for money with it, but it’s a lead.
Previous comment got eaten, sorry if this is a double.
I right-clicked the image and got lead to @buffalopotholebandit on Threads. He could be using Photoshop or AI to make those pictures (and scamming people out of money to make more), but it’s a lead.
It could cost as little as maybe $20 for the sign and post.
It has been pointed out that the sign looks at if it were screwed into a pre-existing signpost, like for parking.
I must say, upon reflection, I would not be surprised if this were a fake. It’s perfect for a fake: obviously such a sign would not be inconsistent with the cult developing around the dubious rape claim. The source was Instapundit, and it has been hoaxed in the past, and EA has been fooled in the process. On the other hand, who can you trust? As the mid-terms approach I’ve seen many stories that reflect poorly on the Left being embargoed.
I searched for other references on the web last evening and found a few. There is a larger picture of the same image; so, the one you have has been cropped. It appears to be real and there are more than one sign with varying messages.
My comment went into moderation for some reason. Maybe I mistyped the email. I copied the comment:
I searched for other references on the web last evening and found a few. There is a larger picture of the same image; so, the one you have has been cropped. It appears to be real and there are more than one sign with varying messages.
I’m intrigued by what appears to be the line of small text at the lower right-hand corner of the sign where the issuing authority would be identified. (I’ve been fascinated by traffic signs most of my life.)
Excellent research. Thank you.
Edward, could you provide some links. I search “signs warning of ‘men raping women’ on the Cornell campus” and all I get is stories slanted in the woman’s favor. Which is interesting in itself, of course. I think it tells me more about search engine bias than the signs’ legitimacy.
Nothing Cornell could have done could have protected Lucy Craig, or any of the men she “partied with”, from the immediate consequence of their choices. Cornell MIGHT have taken action to prevent a re-occurence, but the only way to protect students from that kind of behavior as a first offense is to provide supervised housing.segregated by gender (which, I believe, may have been the standard arrangement in the 1950s). On-campus, it could be Cornell’s responsibility, if anyone really wants them to assume and enforce it. But off-campus, it’s just a matter for the police, after the event. So, setting aside the bias of the sign, it’s illogical.
Signage outside my Maryland early-voting site says “Stop Trump! Vote Yes on 3”. What? Question 3 was (confusingly) written to prevent judicial oversight of Congressional district gerrymandering. The change can’t have ANY effect on this election, and the next election can do nothing about Trump, because he’ll be out of office. It makes no sense, except as an appeal to low-information voters who lose their minds at the word “Trump”.
The big push when I was in college in the early ‘seventies was to have colleges no longer acting in loco parentis. Ironic that students now want their college to act and parents to protect their children from one another. “Never mind!”
They could institute a policy that expels any student that has extra-marital sex. Then, you could say the university is protecting women from this type of ‘rape’. Since the woman in this instance consented before, during, and after the ‘rape’, it appears that women are incapable of consenting to pre-marital sex. So, the only option is to ban all pre-marital and extra-marital sex, just to be on the safe side. Because of Title VI, both parties to the sex must be expelled.
I think the sign is the perfect metaphor. Stand at that sign and look around. See any rapes in progress? No? Nobody raping anyone? The sign is a lie. Anybody who chooses to actually check for themselves can readily see that the sign is a lie.
I can’t believe the signs weren’t promptly removed by the Cornell maintenance people. How can an institution have any policy other than unauthorized signs being removed as soon as they’re spotted?
The only way any institution or municipality can protect from crime is to remove criminals from the general population. Soft-on-crime policies are making that more difficult. In this case it seems that rape didn’t occur, the young men are not criminals, the young woman is not a victim, and nothing the police or Cornell can do will protect the campus. I am not happy about the behaviors. All of these young men and women were wanton, reckless, foolish, promiscuous, immoral, perhaps depraved. But none of that is illegal, and none of it is rape.