Posted on 04/04/2015 11:46:27 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
IN 1997, I was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at the University of Virginia. At a closed hearing, the university’s committee on sexual assault found him responsible. His punishment? A letter in his file.
It’s not clear how many women have won their cases through the university’s system since they were first allowed to enroll as undergraduates in 1970. I am one of the women who won, but winning wasn’t really winning, was it?
The hearing on my case took place in March 1998, two months after a criminal trial that ended in disappointment and frustration for me when the judge dismissed the charge that the Commonwealth of Virginia had filed against my attacker.
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You weren’t there, were you? You have no idea if the story she relates is in any way accurate. You have no idea who gave her the drugs. Maybe they were put into one of the 3 earlier drinks by someone she didn’t even know before she drank the last one she accepted from the man. All of these drinks she drank by her on volition, knowing she was becoming increaingly intoxicated and losing control in the process. Maybe one or more of here sorority sisters spiked a drink. Maybe she picked up a drink intended for someone else. Maybe she popped the pills herself. You also have no idea if she consented to sex and then changed her mind. Even she has no idea what really happened. It doesn’t surprise me at all that the case was dismissed.
...and maybe it was all made up BS!
Another casualty of the sexual revolution.
We are oddly beginning to revert to expectations of sexual behavior which in some ways resemble that of generations past — but not based on traditional Christian morality, which gives a full explanation of the reasons for sexual propriety, but rather based on identity politics, and with the contradictory notion that individual sexual license is still some kind of goal or right.
It will only lead to and increase in conflict and dissonance
You get 6 paragraphs of the supposed "victim" story at which point you are asked if you want to read the rest of the article.
9 paragraphs to get to the acquitted "attacker" statement from his attorney saying the "victim' has changed her story since the trial
And you have to go to the end of the article to find out he was acquitted.
Same old garbage from the New York Times.
Yep the feminists are oddly enough the new Puritans. A boob too big in a video game is forbidden. Any woman strutting their stuff is being ‘objectified’. Shows like Married with Children would still be controversial today but for very different reasons.
There are consequences for foolish actions. It’s called life and it’s not pleasant. If you want to drink with men, do it in a bar, do it at a crowded party and make sure you get into a taxi or have a drive home. Do NOT go into basements. Do NOT go into bedrooms and allow a boy to shut the door. Do NOT go into bad neighborhoods unless you have the street smarts to deal with it (tourist guides will tell you what to avoid). And who is to know who is naïve and who is making a false accusation?
Great post. We are going back to puritanism...but not in a good way, lol.
Agreed. But how is anyone to know the truth in a situation such as that? It's two people alone in a room.
The woman states in the article that it was after her 4th drink that she began to feel sick. She’s got a stronger constitution than I.
Two is generally my limit when I’m out and about!
Yes, this.
and you don’t seem to know that if the guy had not decided to have sex with a woman he was not married to, he wouldn’t have been accused of rape...
These stories are difficult to read.
I feel sorry for this woman, but a criminal court dismissed the charges. I can understand why. The fact that she has continued to refuse to take responsibility for her actions after all of these years is revealing, imho.
No one forced her to drink so much that even hours after the party she was well over the legal limit. There’s so much that contradicts here that her story makes little sense.
There are women who want to be able to act like men, but treated as children when they make mistakes. The reality is that life isn’t now, nor ever has been that forgiving.
My God, I hope that was really bad sarcasm.
I don’t believe her. It’s that simple. She’s lying.
Two is generally my limit when I’m out and about!
Wow! Talk about a cheap date. Wanna party?
What’s your DU screen name?
No kid..it wasn’t...why would it be ???
These threads usually have the “every woman who cries rape is lying about the poor boy” crowd so its time someone said the obvious...just keep it zipped...
I dated a girl, a long time ago, who claimed to have been raped by a mutual acquaintance (before I started going out with her). It was a date-rape without alcohol or drugs, she claimed, just pure physical coercion, holding her down and overwhelming her with his strength and not giving up, though not hitting her.
As I came to know her — and from what I knew of him — I ended up believing her. She didn’t have proof, and an accusation probably would have gone nowhere in a court of law, but I do believe that she was raped, be every meaning of the word.
It does happen.
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