Posted on 01/27/2026 4:48:01 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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There in that hotel, a little over four years ago, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night, I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it. I didn’t tell anyone who could have done something about it, either, such as the hotel staff or the Las Vegas police. I never considered taking any kind of action at the time, but ever since the possibility has haunted me as a particularly cruel version of a path not taken. And although in my mind, the hotel phone remains permanently available to my call, that isn’t true either—and in more ways than one.
With the passage of time comes the passing of statutory deadlines. There’s no room in the law for my personal combination of indecision, confusion, and avoidance. Put differently, the legal frameworks we have for processing crimes often conflict with our emotional and affective responses to those crimes. But the passing of the statutes of limitations for pressing criminal charges against those men has forced me to confront the reasons why I never pursued legal action against them in the first place, although it hasn’t yet allowed me to accept that I never will. To me, there will always be a phone in a Las Vegas hotel waiting for my call.
The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me, even when they have hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible.
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Sounds like a nut. I bet the whole thing is fiction.
A Columbia PhD candidate sparked widespread backlash after revealing she chose not to report her rape because of her stark prison abolitionist views.
Then quit whining about it.
And she doesn’t even stop to consider that emboldened rapists will rape again. She’s doing the rest of the women in this country no favors at all. She isn’t even thinking of anyone but her own pathetic self.
Wasn’t there a Law and Order episode similar to this dumb assery?
Like hamass supporters, I guess she is pro-rape.
Mighta enjoyed it. Off-putting but it makes no sense and we shouldn’t even try to reason why.
We didn’t understand what made the Japanese do what they did in Nanking, Corridor, or with our POW’s. 2 bombs made them understand.
Exhibit # 1 of why criminal cases are titled “People vs. N”.
More postings from the mentally ill.
If you don’t care about yourself or have the strength to pursue justice on your behalf, what about the next woman? She’s just collateral damage of your cowardice and liberal ideology not to mention absent logical circuits.
Well, if you don’t believe in prisons, there is always the predator route. Pursue and hunt them down, inflict your own justice and kill them. Try not to get caught, because others do believe in prisons.
If someone stabs you and tries to slit your throat, you can not say "I decline to press charges".
Sorry sweety, felonies are crimes against the state and society. It's not your call, honeybunch.
“In the interest of equality, I think every woman should have the opportunity to be gang-raped just like I was, so I didn’t want to give the police any reason to take these fine gang rapists off the streets.”
I’ll take things that never happened for $1,000. She’s more the type to randomly accuse strangers or classmates of rape.
It never happened. It’s just a fairy story.
I friggin’ completely agree.
I don’t believe this either.
Selfish bitch
Best pie chart ever.
Almost certain the rapists, if they actually existed, were black. The primary reason for the left’s insane campaign to eliminate arrest, conviction, and incarceration for serious crimes is because it is black men who commit a hugely disproportionate number of them. No matter how they try to gaslight people about black crime rates, the stats don’t lie, or at least they haven’t in the past. But NOW, they intend to turn the crime stats into nothing but lies by essentially erasing black criminals from them. No arrest or conviction? Well then, that criminal never existed…officially.
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