What a great injustice that any women can lie about rape or sexual harassment without being help accountable. It's so common in divorce cases involving child custody that some attorneys use it as a strategy.
Emma Sulkowicz and her famous mattress is one of the great symbols of our deranged age. Her mattress should be in the Smithsonian!
She and the admins knew her claims were most likely false—all the proof pointed to them being in a consensual if not committed relationship, she texted him and hung out with him multiple times after the supposed "rape" and Columbia settled w him later—but she is/was a master manipulator and knew exactly how the right performance with the right sacred jargon would make her impossible to resist or deny. A young woman with a personality disorder crying Rape! is just very difficult to say No to, it would be denying the lived truth of a victim, and this goes triple for an Ivy League campus—they were so intimidated they even let her graduate carrying the mattress and gave her an award for her "art project"!
Emma was just as much of a destructive liar as poor Crystal Mangum, who at least had the excuse of a very rough upbringing whereas Emma's parents are NYC professionals. She and her mattress were another sign post on our cultural and academic descent into a mad ideological spiral.
It is worth also bearing in mind that at a broader cultural level as an NCAA men's lacrosse player at that time people would give me looks and make comments about my being a rapist merely for *being a lacrosse player* and having nothing to do with Duke Lacrosse. This persisted for years even after the entire case fell apart and Nifong was disbarred.
It was an early instance of rushing to judgment and a fantastic example of society giving carte blanche to attacking a group that then (and still today) remains maybe the single constituency that it is most acceptable to openly hate without having to explain oneself at all.
Our constitution and our judicial system were built around the recognition that people's prejudices must be left at the door while investigating and trying a case.
It's disgraceful that, today, the people who are responsible for maintaining those principles are the most likely to violate them.
What a great injustice that any women can lie about rape or sexual harassment without being help accountable. It's so common in divorce cases involving child custody that some attorneys use it as a strategy.
And also that so many were so willing to believe her without supporting evidence
Next do Columbia"s Mattress Girl!
She's the Ivy League's Crystal Mangum.
Wow, great point!
Emma Sulkowicz and her famous mattress is one of the great symbols of our deranged age. Her mattress should be in the Smithsonian!
She and the admins knew her claims were most likely false—all the proof pointed to them being in a consensual if not committed relationship, she texted him and hung out with him multiple times after the supposed "rape" and Columbia settled w him later—but she is/was a master manipulator and knew exactly how the right performance with the right sacred jargon would make her impossible to resist or deny. A young woman with a personality disorder crying Rape! is just very difficult to say No to, it would be denying the lived truth of a victim, and this goes triple for an Ivy League campus—they were so intimidated they even let her graduate carrying the mattress and gave her an award for her "art project"!
Emma was just as much of a destructive liar as poor Crystal Mangum, who at least had the excuse of a very rough upbringing whereas Emma's parents are NYC professionals. She and her mattress were another sign post on our cultural and academic descent into a mad ideological spiral.
It is worth also bearing in mind that at a broader cultural level as an NCAA men's lacrosse player at that time people would give me looks and make comments about my being a rapist merely for *being a lacrosse player* and having nothing to do with Duke Lacrosse. This persisted for years even after the entire case fell apart and Nifong was disbarred.
It was an early instance of rushing to judgment and a fantastic example of society giving carte blanche to attacking a group that then (and still today) remains maybe the single constituency that it is most acceptable to openly hate without having to explain oneself at all.
How infuriating. Can't say I'm surprised, though. And I bet far more people heard about the false accusations than heard about the case falling apart.
Our constitution and our judicial system were built around the recognition that people's prejudices must be left at the door while investigating and trying a case.
It's disgraceful that, today, the people who are responsible for maintaining those principles are the most likely to violate them.
Let’s punish lies and reward honesty again. Offer forgiveness but there have to be consequences of lying.