This is a false equivalency. It would actually be more like this: a white man is accused by a black man of shoplifting in a Walmart. The black man claims to have seen him shoplift, but his full statement is sealed, along with any evidence Walmart might have found (they might even have caught him on camera, we don’t…

You can stop your hand-wringing, John Doe wasn’t accused of rape.

“To be clear, however, this account is solely John Doe’s version of events; Jane Doe’s testimony and complaints to the Columbia remain in sealed records.”

I appreciate that I can let go of the pain I’ve been carrying around, since coercion not a problem—only violent assault. I can rest much better now, because I guess I prevented a crime, knowing that even though I didn’t want to have sex, and given the size disparity between him and me and being told that he was going…

What if you’re so drunk you need help getting out of your clothes, and you won’t remember anything? Does it matter if your partner got you that level of drunk purposely because they knew you wouldn’t agree otherwise? What if you’re underage and never explicitly tell your older partner? What if you agree to sex only…

I agree. But he wasn’t suspended for sexual assault. He was suspended for sexual coercion. Which is not illegal, but can be against company or school policy, and result in being fired or being suspended.

Dude, take the advice of others on here and just close the laptop and do something else for a while.

You begged for an ally cookie and you didn’t get one, so now you’re, as someone else accurately pointed out, projecting. You’re not only “mansplaining” you’re also gas lighting and insulting people for the terrible act…

I don’t think you realize that sexual coercion is also a very bad thing and the line between it and rape can be pretty hard to find.

That’s a false equivalency and you know it, considering there is real, actual, verifiable bias against African-American men. Wealthy white college athletes, not so much.

Given literally all research on how often rapists face punishment, I’m dismissing his argument that a university is biased against men as absurd on its face.

Schools hold disciplinary hearings for all sorts of rule violations, some of which are also criminal offenses (like MIPs). Deciding whether or not to kick someone out of your school for breaking rules and/or hurting other students seems like a pretty basic thing universities should be able to do.

Due process is for court and legal consequences. He was not arrested and faced no imprisonment, fines, or other legal consequences. Subsequently, he gets no due process.

As Christina Hoff Somers would put it, “criminalizing healthy male sexuality!”

I don’t disagree about the effectiveness/usefulness of college courts, but his argument reeks of “if you weren’t so biased, if you had approached this matter with any sense of objectivity, you wouldn’t have punished me because you would have believed me when I said we had consensual sex and not her when she said we…

Hey, now, be fair. Men facing a very small chance of receiving consequences for raping women instead of no chance whatsoever is the definition of misandry and anti-male bias. Rape is just what men do! You can’t punish them for it — that’s denying their very nature!

Like, they aren’t even trying. It’s insulting at this point that they expect the public to be swayed by “varsity athlete.” We see you. We do not care.

“pro-female, anti-male bias”

I’m so fucking sick of the “varsity athlete” red herring. It’s such a blatant dog whistle for good ol’ boy it just makes me want to barf.

“I was punished after being found guilty of a crime. That means you hate men and are trying to make an example of me.”