Columbia Student: The Damage Done By ‘Mattress Girl’

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'It’s been roughly a year since Emma Sulkowicz, a.k.a. “mattress girl,” graduated from Columbia University. While it’s unclear whether undergrads are any safer today, as a rising senior at Columbia, I can testify to the alarmism around sex on campus that has emerged as an unintended consequence of the recent activism.
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While Schwartz’s perspective must be taken into account, so must the concerns of her peers. Competing tensions that make men feel endangered and women silenced have created a climate that has actually quieted discourse about how to improve sexual assault prevention and enforced antagonisms that perpetuate gender-based misconduct instead of prohibiting it. Men are scared of women on campus now, and fear breeds anger and prejudice. Women are frustrated by men, which inspires a lack of desire to collaborate for solutions.
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Most men who are frightened of being falsely accused probably wouldn’t have perpetrated sexual assault in the first place. Meanwhile, 98 out of 100 accused rapists never serve a day in prison, and the activism from last year didn’t change that — nor did it enlighten the public about who victims are and how to help. Instead, it inspired impractical laws with unintended consequences, isolating potential allies and enforcing a new sexual stigma that’s essentially foreclosed productive dialogue about assault on college campuses and beyond.'