Discussion for article #234608
This unfortunate hoax makes it more difficult for actual rape survivors to come forward. That’s the real problem with the Rolling Stone’s shoddy reporting.
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I think the other problem is “Jackie’s” witnesses believed that something happened. Something really bad. Too bad she wasn’t a “perfect” victim and that the reporter kind of ran with it w/o verifying the details.
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“Longo said he wasn’t planning to close the case because he couldn’t prove that something horrific didn’t happen to Jackie…”
So in order to maintain the primacy of female victimhood and avoid any accusation of misogyny, the conceit is now that the lack of cannot prove that a crime was not committed. In what other situation is a person, man or woman, allowed to make false, incendiary claims of a crime, which can very readily be disproven, and be so coddled and pitied?
Oh, please.
Turn on Fox News and watch for 15 minutes.
Would you like a string of pearls and some smelling salts to go with your fainting couch?
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Ahh… I love the smell of masculinist victimhood in the morning, or at any time…
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…smells like…not victory…something else…what’s the opposite of victory?
…smells like…a temper tantrum.
Catherine Thompson should get a Pulitzer. She just managed to put together an article of factual information. No assumptions. No bias. Just the information as available. This is something unheard of in today’s “media”.
What is that boilerplate accusation supposed to even mean?
Are you simply unaware of how the law works? Do you really want police to investigate indefinitely until they can prove that nothing happened?