Posted on 09/05/2014 2:39:37 PM PDT by dennisw
Emma Sulkowicz is turning her assault into art -- and a protest against Columbia University's sexual assault policy
On the first day of her sophomore year of college, Emma Sulkowicz was raped in her dorm room bed. The Columbia University senior says the perpetrator was a fellow student. He still is — and has been since he allegedly assaulted Sulkowicz and two other female students. As Sulkowicz reported in Time earlier this year, all three cases against her offender were dismissed. So, she’s not taking it anymore.
After joining a federal complaint in April over Columbia’s mishandling of rape cases and speaking out about the school’s failure to address her assault, Sulkowicz is now embarking on yet another effort — an artistic one — to make change on campus. For her senior thesis project, the visual arts major will perform what she is calling “an endurance art piece,” in which she will carry around a standard twin-size dorm room mattress with her everywhere she goes, until her rapist is removed from school.
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Emma Sulkowicz, come to Vermont. NH or Maine, bring $1,000 and go home with an unregistered, unrecorded gun and deal with the rapist. You look like an idiot carrying a mattress around.
Please, give me a break.
I was wondering how long it would take before somebody responded as you have.
It’s like whenever anyone dares to question the failings of minorities in this country, that the racism excuse is invoked.
While I tend to agree with you, the argument is hollow and tedious.
But, you are welcome to it.
I bet booze had something to do with it.
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And I am betting his not being interested in her anymore after consensual sex had something to do with it.
Yes, to all of your suggestions.
You mean like Bill Clinton?
Perhaps she should have gone to the police rather than the University. They might be more objective about it than people concerned with the image of their school.
Rape survivor???
Is that like cancer survivor?
I didn’t know “date rape” could kill.
Well, we seem to have some visual evidence...
I want to be more sympathetic to her situation, but I think that we all know that with a degree in visual arts, that she will be stripping in six months after graduation in an effort to support her performance art...
Was that why she was an ex-girlfriend?
See my post 35. Not saying this is always the case. But it usually is.
I don’t want to bring up a “what was she wearing” analogy but generally speaking a woman who carries a mattress around on her back is advertising for sex services.
Lesbians are free to molest drunken women. #TRUESTORY
..........I had a female friend once who was an 11 on a ten scale and scantily dressed all the time. I asked her if she was concerned at all about the possibility of getting raped someday. She said no!
So, I said “well, when you walk down a street dressed like that do you feel ANY responsibility if some guy get’s a little outta line?”
She said No again and then said “he’s just got to deal with it”. So, there you have it guys, you just have to deal with it and stifle!............as Archie would say.
Understood. I assume in most cases the Campus police are not full fledged police. In this case I tend to believe her.
“For her senior thesis project, the visual arts major will perform what she is calling “an endurance art piece,” in which she will carry around a standard twin-size dorm room mattress with her everywhere she goes, until her rapist is removed from school.”
And there in a nutshell you have an insight into what’s wrong with American Universities.
Maybe she should just strap the mattress on her back...
Dude will leave and admit she sucked.
> She claims to have been raped in 8/12, didn’t report it until 5/13, and now expects the accused to be expelled? Sorry, Emma, but at best, you’re a fool.
http://registrar.columbia.edu/event/academic-calendar?acfy=30&acterm=7&acschool=11&keys=
Looks like she reported it smack-dab in the middle of finals. Very interesting...
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