So. Was this rape? A sexual assault? Should we blame the victim here?
What I find interesting is the collegiate response to this. Isn’t this pretty typical of all colleges and universities? Drunk co-ed cries rape. They have to tap-dance around the issue.
So that’s an example of the Crimson folks, eh?
Guess we know the quality that allowed the Obamadork to 1) get in ...and even worse....2) graduate.
Pressured into sex is not assault
It’s stupid that she gave in and regrets it
Did she report it to police? The real cops? No?
Co-ed dorms + drinking binges, what could possibly go wrong?
I believe Harvard undergraduates belong to one of 8 houses where they live for 3 years.
It is similar to the 3 houses in the Harry Potter saga.
After freshman year, you choose a house like Grippendor or Slitheren or so one and there you stay.
However, each house is enormous with about 400 kids each.
On the other hand, perhaps Harvard should go back to being all male with Radcliff as the Harvard for girls school.
Of course that would give them a black eye too.
Damned if you do, damned if you dont’
However switching houses is a big move but on the other hand each house is quite large. It is not like she would be remaining in a dorm with 30 people. She would remain in a “house” of about 400.
This sounds realistic but maybe a little too much so.It sounds like well written fiction. The clue to me is that in a modern university you could commit a sexual assault and get away with it especially in a liberal institution like Harvard where the burden of proof would be on the male. The most troubling part of the accusation is that she demanded that he be kicked out of the dorm or whatever. Why didn’t she leave? surely such a request would of been honored. That makes me see something fishy about this tale. But, if it was real it should of been examined and action should of been taken I do not make light of something like this.
If she doesn’t commit suicide by the end of the year, I’ll be amazed.
It doesn’t speak to whether or not she filed charges with the police, nor if she contacted a rape/crisis center to help cope with the assault. If not, why not?
that makes it rape. stop means stop, not go. if you cross that line, its rape.
I always take my grievences outside the system.
Drama Queen.
If my life depended on moving out of a house, I would. The next minute. Actually, sooner than that, because I'd not take time to write a long screed about how much horrific danger I was in.
If you read her story, she wanted the student she claims raped her to be punished without having to go through the uncomfortable process of filing charges against him.
IOW, she wanted him to be assumed guilty without even a shred of due process. After all, she’s a female accusing (even if only informally) a male. Therefore he should be automatically considered guilty.
I also note it appears she didn’t scream. I’ve never been in a Harvard House, but I’ve worked in a number of dorms, and a scream IS going to be heard outside the room and would presumably bring people running.
It is not rape every time a woman gets drunk, has sex, then regrets it later.
Two, count 'em, two (2) mistakes. Smart enough to get into Harvard, but...
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Yeah, Crimson disabling its comments is a big step forward in "bringing to light campus-wide conversations on sexual violence and health services at Harvard."
Morons.
The autyhor kept saying that the guy lived in the same “house”
Until the end I thought the author was a guy..
I thought a guy had raped a guy..
and the university had ignored a rape by a homosexual..
then at the end the mystery is solved...
the rapist was a guy but the victim is a female..
OK so why doesnt the female just move to an all female dorm ???
She wants the university to move the rapist apparently they wont..
has she asked to be moved herself ???
why does she insist on staying in the same building she was raped in ???
and why didn’t she write her story in her room instead of staying in the same commons room where he is ??
something doesn’t pass the smell test..
Her refusal to accept the school's offer to move to a different House is typical of the angry victim-- reliance on "fairness" when it is self-defeating is a classic victim act. While the school's responses were insipid at best, she had choices to make at points along the way to act in her own best interest and she did not. She appears to have some political contamination, making a public issue of a private misfortune, which is holding her back for recovering.
When the administration stonewalls, go to the police. Or just go to legal authorities in the first place.
More of the left’s war on women.