"I Was Sexually Assaulted At UVA. I Don't Accept the Reporter's Apology."

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2015-04-20 01:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'I don’t remember what I was wearing when I got sexually assaulted my freshman year, but I do remember what I wore when I figured out what had happened. It was the autumn of 2008, and I had just left a sorority house, where I had given a lecture on consent, safe sex, and best practices for helping friends who have been raped. Jacob,* a handsome, popular guy I had avoided for years, strode up to me. I was wearing a teal T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of the University of Virginia’s sexual assault crisis center.

“Isn’t this funny that this is who you are now?” Jacob said, his grin widening as he tapped the insignia on my breast. “Robert* and I still talk about that night.” The next thing I remember, I was shaking and crying on my bed, awash with a feeling I’ve never been able to name. Everything I had explained away for the last two years came rushing back: being held down, Jacob’s whisper of “No one is going to believe you” before mercifully being interrupted, the mental calculus I did that somehow equated the whole thing with a gigantic misunderstanding.

When I read Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “A Rape on Campus” in Rolling Stone last year—before her reporting came into question, before the Columbia report—I wrote on Facebook that as a sexual assault survivor from UVA, “I can tell you this is absolutely accurate from start to finish.”
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*not their real names'

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How stupid do feminists think the rest of us are? A rapist walk up to his victim who *just left* an rape trauma/anti-rape workshop where she spoke and touches her chest and smiles and says it's "funny" she's doing what she's doing now. No, what'd be "funny" is if he were the one doing it. The narrative is far too pat and equally unbelievable. Think: if you had committed such an act as rape vs. someone and knew you'd had done wrong, wouldn't you be trying to avoid your victim -- not the other way around? Second, once she got prominence as an anti-rape activist, would you dare walk up to her right after she gave a speech, and in the darkness no less (I am assuming she gave such a talk, if indeed she actually did, at night, since most college's classes are over by sun-down and that is when most such activities are scheduled), and do what she said he did? In short, as stories go, it's patently unbelievable on its face. This is why testimony is fine, but should require corroborating evidence to the degree that the accusation is unverifiable or untenable based on testimony alone.

To simply believe an accuser, and especially one declining to name names, without corroboration because of the nature of the accusation and for that reason alone is what has gotten so many men throughout history hung for treason and witchcraft without anything but an accusation to bring a guilty verdict. We're seeing the same thing here on college campuses and you have students, pols, and fac-staff people like the author of this article to blame for it. Anything to keep the delusional hysteria going, lying included.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2015-04-20 01:41

The author wasn't raped at UVA. She buries this admission in the 8th paragraph when she says, "It was only then that I was able to separate fact from fiction and call that incident what it was—an attempted rape—and get the care that allowed me to move on."

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Submitted by fibtastic on Mon, 2015-04-20 04:05

I log it as yet another UVA-generated complete fabrication. At this point I'll suggest UVA should be a no-fly zone for male HS students looking at colleges. Too many nutjobs there both attending and running the place. Male freshmen may want to skedaddle while they can still get credit for their 101-levels.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2015-04-21 04:01

This is a strange read. It has an "unbelievable" feel to it, that I wonder if I understand the events correctly...

According to her, "Jacob" is the man who attempted to rape her by holding her down and whispering "no one is going to believe you." but the attempted rape was interrupted. She gives no context like what got her into the situation or what she did immediately afterwards (apparently she did not report it to authorities). Years later she still struggles and cries about this attempted rape and identifies as a survivor of sexual assault and now gives lectures on the subject.

And then, two years after the attack, while she is walking down the street after one of her lectures, Jacob comes up to her and says with a smirk "Isn't this funny that this is who you are now?” and taps her on the chest. He also adds "Robert and I still talk about that night"

Does this seem strange and unbelievable to anyone else???

Further in the article she has some clickable links as her "proof" that Rolling Stone had many examples of certifiable rapes they could have chosen for their article. Like in this quote: "I'm talking about certifiable, horrific facts featuring frat brothers and roofies and missing clothing"

However, when I go to these "certifiable, horrific facts" I get another story of a UVA campus "rape" about an underage girl drinking heavily at a frat party who believes she has been given a date rape drug but offers no proof even though she mentions a rape kit was done about 48 hour afterwards (I am sure a rape exam would have included a blood test to test for date rape drugs. She later says it could have been a drunken blackout) The accused male was eventually found "not guilty" of sexual assualt....So I am not sure how she defines this "rape" as "certifiable fact".

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Submitted by Kris on Tue, 2015-04-21 20:59

..."certifiable" here is the author. She's 100% certifible, as they used to say back in the WWII era. Nutty as a fruitcake.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2015-04-22 03:33