The #MeToo movement has revealed some horrifically lecherous behavior but it also leads to people being considered guilty just for being accused and allegations that one in five women are sexually assaulted on college campuses, but best-selling author and scholar Heather Mac Donald says American liberals foolishly embraced a "drunken hook-up culture" and they're now trying to explain away the consequences.
Mac Donald is author of "The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture." She says the uproar over the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have further exposed the effort to divide Americans by their identities.
Last week, Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono slammed men in general for the problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
"Guess who's perpetuating (sic) all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country. And I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change," said Hirono.
Mac Donald says this is a perfect example of gender pandering being shoehorned into our national politics.
"It's a direct conveyor belt," said Mac Donald. "We're just seeing a mirror image from the notions that the so-called survivors must always be believed, the claims that have been made that (Kavanaugh accuser Dr. Christine Ford shouldn't have to testify. That would just be too traumatic."
She says the problem is much broader.
"There's a war on men in this country. That's the bottom line. If you're a white male, from here on out, good luck getting hired or promoted. You're going to have to be twice as good as everybody else because the obsession with diversity, the push to hire by race and gender is now accelerating in every mainstream institution in the country. And it all comes out of the academy," said Mac Donald.
And when it comes to diversity, Mac Donald says the political left has no interest in championing the notion that true strength in diversity comes from people of all races and either sex extolling the liberties, opportunities, and ideals that made America great.
"They have no interest in American ideals. Diversity for them is skin deep. It's what's between your legs, things that I think are trivial that are now being used to destroy the extraordinary legacy of Western Civilization - the literature, music, art, architecture, philosophy," said Mac Donald.
Mac Donald's book focuses primarily in the explosion of race and gender victimhood claims on college campuses. We examined the racial component in the first part of our conversation.
When it comes to gender, Mac Donald says the liberals are simply reaping what they've sown in sexual liberation.
"What we know for sure is there is a drunken hook-up culture that is the product of sexual liberation that says there's no difference between the male and female libido, that there should be no constraints on the male libido such as chivalry or respect - that females should no exercise modesty and prudence. They should be as sexually aggressive as males," said Mac Donald.
She says that is a massive lie and simply biology shows that men are more predisposed to that behavior while women desire much more of an emotional connection and therefore suffer from the notion they are empowered by the hook-up culture.
And because of how women are hard-wired, Mac Donald says bad decisions suddenly become cause for retribution and dubious allegations on campus.
"Sometimes they are trying to cover up infidelity to a boyfriend. They are encouraged to translate regret into rape accusations," said Mac Donald.
She says the one in five statistic is badly flawed, both because of many allegations that aren't actually assault as well as the fact that nowhere near that many assault reports are filed.
"If the numbers put forward by the campus rape industrial complex were correct, that would signify a crime epidemic that's really never been seen anywhere, not in the worst African civil wars and not in Detroit," said Mac Donald.
Mac Donald says if the rapes and sexual assaults were as high as the activists suggest, then parents would be clamoring for same-sex institutions instead of working feverishly to send their daughters to schools where this "epidemic" exists.
"I conclude that this is one big hoax," said Mac Donald.
She also says the combination of a hook-up culture and concern over being accused of assault is leading to the bizarre spectacle of college administrators defining what sex and consent are.
Mac Donald says it is imperative for Americans to fight back against the identity politics onslaught targeting colleges and our culture.
"Every one of us has to rebut the victim narrative. As long as the central claim about America is that it is endemically and inevitably and invariably racist and sexist, the demands to shut down free speech are going to continue," she said.
"We are an open and tolerant society. Most Americans just want to get along. They don't care about race. They see people on the quality of their character. It is the left that is wanting to pigeon-hole everybody by divisive identity politics. We have to stand up against this accusation of ubiquitous racism and sexism," said Mac Donald.
