[Sherman Logan]

The destructive fallout goes beyond one woman’s suffering. The Rolling Stone story, which had helped make it all but impossible to ignore the scourge of campus sexual assault, is now going to do the opposite. Because now, emboldened by this one possibly fabricated story of rape, the chorus of people who believe women routinely make these things up will grow louder.

Note the implicit assumption.

Women do NOT routinely make these things up, and anybody who believes or says so is a horrible person.

We now have at least three high profile cases (Brawley, Duke, UVA) where the story is indeed "made up." A reasonable person would at this point say something like, "Maybe we should make an attempt to find out what percentage of rape stories are made up. And develop better ways of determining which are and which are not."

Instead all we get is a call to assume all accusations are true.

[a fool in paradise]

the chorus of people who believe women routinely make these things up will grow louder.

People in the media still are concerned about rapists and their victims? Really?

[PghBaldy]

We lso have Lena Dunham’s lie(s) too.

[Soul of the South]

“The destructive fallout goes beyond one woman’s suffering.”

One fraternity chapter and the entire fraternity system, was tried and convicted in the press and in marches by students in the outrage following the story. Whether or not any incident occurred, the facts uncovered since the story seem to exonerate any such incident being perpetrated by a member of the fraternity or occurring at the fraternity house, much less being indicative of the entire fraternity system.

Nonetheless, based on a sensational story, about an alleged crime that was never reported to the authorities, told by an anonymous “victim” to a reporter with a very specific political and social agendas, printed in a magazine promoting the same agendas, and accusing unidentified male students of a horrific criminal act was used by the president of the university as the sole basis for a decision to suspend all fraternities and sororities on campus. Mere accusations that had not been investigated, much less proven, were validated by the UVA president taking unprecedented action to punish 25% of the male undergraduate student population plus the female students belonging to sororities.

The founder of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, wrote, “this institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

As of today, the progressive president of the university has not lifted her suspension of the fraternities and sororities. Why?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My guess is that at least half of all allegations of rape that are not reported to the police are fabrications. Lena Dunham is not the only one, and not all allegations are that wide spread. I suspect a lot of woman accuse men of rape behind their backs as form of revenge for whatever screwy reason women want revenge.

[libstripper]

We now have at least three high profile cases (Brawley, Duke, UVA) where the story is indeed "made up."

Indeed, it's extraordinary how many high profile "rape" cases that were heavily touted by the MSM were made up.