Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof

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'It’s time to put down the mattress.

Columbia student Emma Sulko­wicz, who claims her close friend and former sexual partner Paul Nungesser raped her, has been carrying a mattress around campus for months to symbolize her status as a victim and remind everyone her alleged attacker remains on campus. (The mattress was also earning her course credit for performance art, but never mind that.)

Sulkowicz, who has been pictured in newspapers across the country, was even a guest of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand at the State of the Union address last month. The New York Times referred to Sulkowicz as “a woman with a mattress, refusing to keep her violation private, carrying with her a stark reminder of where it took place.”

Way to reserve judgment, folks.

Turns out there’s another side of the story. Writing in The Daily Beast, the intrepid Cathy Young notes that Nungesser has been cleared by a campus court. And since Sulkowicz declined to press criminal charges, that’s about as close as he’s going to get to an official vindication.

But what he should really get is an apology from the media and the ­cabal of feminists, including Gillibrand, who have supported his accuser unquestioningly.'