Posted on 05/22/2015 3:21:22 PM PDT by rickyrikardo
The dude is suing the school.
Understood. I thought you meant the carrying of the mattress and attention whoring.
The Duke lacrosse team did keep their 'peckers in their pants', as you put it.
Are you saying they didn't?
Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor is the 9th commandment.
For my Jewish friends and husband, Happy Pentecost, which is the celebration of the Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
NO END TO THIS because the college administrators let the activists take control.
The boy was not allowed to present evidence in his college hearing in the form of emails BEFORE the alleged rape where she was talking about their sexual encounters and anal intercourse.
The emails are part of the lawsuit as exhibits.
Could it be she was chasing him and felt rejected when he decided not to continue the relationship?
Because her real name is “Ima Sulkingbitch”.
Indeed it tis!!
Poor little thing. When she first started her Master’s Degree in Fake Rapes mattress-dragging project, she didn’t yet know that the Rolling Stone market for fake rape stories would dry up to a considerable degree. But, hey, live by the fake rape story, die by the fake rape story.
If Columbia was smart, they'd cut him a check right now.
Of course it’s possible, even probable.
But is it possible at this point to establish “beyond a reasonable doubt” that a rape either did or did not occur?
Nope. Insufficient evidence to take a case to court is not proof of genuine innocence of the charge. Most “date rape” cases will of necessity remain forever in an ambiguous limbo.
What feminists want, obviously, is for female accusations of rape by a male to be considered automatically proven, or at least the standard of evidence necessary to convict reduced.
I don’t have any idea how many such cases result in conviction, but if some do it looks very much like men are being convicted on evidence that would not convict them for any other crime.
Well, the problem is that she and her supporters are more than happy to make absolute claims in the midst of the uncertainty. Whoever made these posters is pushing back against that. They’re putting the other side of the argument out there. All the caveats and uncertainties exist and should be discussed but the posters aren’t the right place for that. Their job is to be pithy and make a statement.
I quite agree. I think the posters are great. Such “speaking truth to power” should be applauded.
Just trying to note that we do not and cannot know for sure what happened that night. Only the two involved can know.
Maybe not even them. Sufficient alcohol and drugs may mean you don’t remember what happened at all, much less remember it clearly. Not proud of it, but when younger I had a number of occasions where I couldn’t remember the latter half of the evening before. Had someone accused me of rape (or murder), my only honest response would have been, “I don’t think I would do such a thing.”
Even if stone sober, people’s memories are remarkably inaccurate, even when they are trying to tell the truth as best they can and don’t have some kind of agenda to back up.
Recently I found some contemporaneous evidence of what happened to me in an event some decades back. Darn if my memory of the event hadn’t drifted quite a bit away from the actual facts.
“I wonder if she’s going to drag her mattress with her to job interviews and work...”
When prospective employers google her name that mattress will suddenly become an albatross.
It’s a common enough misunderstanding. He thought casual sex was was casual sex. She thought casual sex was casual sex, until she became attached to him and expected something more. She was outraged that he did not pick up on her feelings and reciprocate. Maybe he did “reciprocate” in the mechanical sense, but not in the emotional way she wanted him to.
“La donna è mobile” is Eyetaleein for “Bitches is crazy.”
“I wonder if she’s going to drag her mattress with her to job interviews and work...”
When she has to start supporting herself, she’ll jump back into line.
The police wouldn’t pursue it.
Which is why “college rape tribunals” are in reality double jeopardy - a man risks losing his money paid for school, his housing, his reputation, when the police say no we won’t even see this as a criminal level but the girl can then take it to a college board to punish him.
And that violates even more legal rules, such as saying you can’t question her without harming her so cross-examination goes out, he doesn’t get to know the charges against him until called in for his side, often not allowed legal counsel or given notice to have counsel until called in for an administrative hearing, not allowed to show text messages or online history that show they had intimate discussions or a relationship past the date of the so called rape that show she was still dating him.
And colleges combine the roles of the detectives (people investigating the crime) with the judges (people who arbitrate the decision), while having innate bias against the accused (tribunals stacked with women’s studies and liberal arts professors who are biased toward the woman).
No I am saying calling in the professionals didn’t help the Duke Lacrosse team.
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