Posted on 05/20/2015 1:27:44 AM PDT by rickyrikardo
Student activist Emma Sulkowicz made headlines last fall, pledging to carry her mattress around Columbia University’s campus until the administration expelled her alleged rapist, Paul Nungesser. That didn’t happen.
Tuesday, both students were scheduled to graduate. So Sulkowicz, with the help of her friends, carried her mattress in the processional, continuing her protest. According to The Columbia Daily Spectator, the school’s administration emailed seniors on Monday saying, “Graduates should not bring into the ceremonial area large objects which could interfere with the proceedings or create discomfort to others in close, crowded spaces shared by thousands of people.” Sulkowicz disregarded this warning and brought her mattress on stage. According to a tweet from Teo Armus, the Deputy News Editor at the Columbia Spectator, “Emma Sulkowicz did not shake hands with President Lee Bollinger when she went on stage.”
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Except that there really are women who enjoy rough sex and being overpowered.
Signs of a struggle therefore cannot mean that intercourse was necessarily not consensual.
Did you read it? Cooper said innocent of the charges many times over. Maybe if you had been watching the coverage at the time, you would see it in a different light. There was talk about it being so unique to use the word innocent, for a few hours before the announcement, and then a few days after it. It blew everyone’s mind. So it wasn’t just that the charges were dropped. Those young men were pronounced “innocent”. It was talked about as the first time in American legal history that the word innocent was used. I don’t know what the legal books all say now, but at the time, it was unheard of.
Emma is the spoiled, adopted child of a wealthy New York family. She’s an entitled prig who’s used to getting her way.
Money does not buy class. You either have it or you don’t.
This mentions actual innocence and has citations for it.
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3056&context=faculty_scholarship
Our present legal system presumes the validity of the accusation and the guilt of the accused in multiple ways.
Most notably, we shield the identity of the “victim,” and plaster that of the accused all over the media, usually associated with a handcuffed perp walk for the cameras.
In fact, the routine use of the word victim prejudges that a crime actually occurred, although not necessarily that the accused is the perpetrator.
The sexual history of the accuser is also in many states shielded, despite the fact that it may often be highly relevant to the defense. I’m not sure, but I don’t think the history of the accused is shielded in the same way.
Thanks. Not really trying to be argumentative, but it seems to me there is a difference between a prosecutor dropping charges, even if he states it is because they are innocent, and a verdict of innocence from a court.
Any man who accommodates a woman's desire for "rough sex", without getting a video disclaimer from her FIRST, is a fool.
One worse story in Florida. A female student was angry about a poor grade. She accused the teacher of molesting her. He was arrested and fired from his job. His wife left and divorced him. His children turned their backs on him and would not have communication with him. The girl lied at trial and he was convicted. The night before he was to be sentenced, she recanted her story and admitted she had lied about it all because of the grade; there had been no misbehavior. He did not appear for the 9:00 a.m. sentencing. The judge sent officers to locate him. They found him dead from self inflicted gun gunshot. I wonder how everyone turned out from that: the wife, the kids. I’m hoping the girl is having a terrible life.
There may be a difference, but this case was being heard in front of a judge, well several. It was being taken to trial rapidly, and then one of the defense lawyers found exculpatory evidence that Nifong hid. Sometime after that discovery, Nifong recused himself, at which point the State AG took over. You make it sound like it wasn’t going to get to a trial. Those men saw the insides of courtrooms for months on end. Their families and their lives were tied up in knots. It was angst every single day.
Ouch. That is a nightmare story.
okay, I LOL’ed so loud the rest of the cube farm stared at me!
I probably don’t have enough knowledge to comment with authority.
No argument from me. Then save the video to the cloud.
I am not, BTW, advocating such practices. Just noting that they do happen.
Sounds like she was trying to get a twofer. She found a final project for her degree and a way to get back at him for ditching her.
That’s pretty bad.
The whole notion is based on the peculiar notion that women won’t lie about sex or rape. Which is stupid. Women lie all the time, as do men and children.
The proposals for “reform” are also based on the idea, not always made explicit, that since men have historically been the oppressors, it’s better for multiple innocent men to go to jail than for a single truth-telling woman to have her story openly doubted by anyone. The man, as a member of an oppressor group, is kind of guilty anyway. So who cares what happens to him.
Thanks, but that came from an FR thread on feminists complaining about the inherent sexism in a society that gives men a pass when they pass gas, but not women. Somebody came up with the gas as drama comment.
BTW use of the word “drama” as meaning strife or arguing is still new to me. One day at the office I heard the sound of two raised female voices & somebody remarked, “Those two are having drama about something”.
If I’m not mistaken, use of the word “drama” as meaning strife or arguing has its origin in Ebonics.
No to be graphic, but I know some girls who like it rough.
Mattress has two t’s. But today’s students wouldn’t know that.
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