I already have friends saying this is the next Duke lacrosse scandal. It's not really. Saying "well one of the anecdotes was maybe false so all of them must be crying rape over nothing" is ridiculous. The real conversation here needs to be about how the university was sweeping sexual assault under the rug, but now…

My opinion is that something horrible happened to Jackie. I don't know if it was a three-hour gang rape by seven guys, as she told RS, or being forced into oral sex by a smaller number, as she originally told her friends. But she's consistently said she was raped by multiple people, she was clearly traumatized, and…

So, the frat says there was no official party that weekend so obviously that weekend no one possible could have been drinking and partying there. Jackie may have embellished, may have lied, may have misremembered, but so far all we know is RS is afraid of a lawsuit.

This is horrible and this guy really needs to get a grip. Someone close to him should take action now because he is beyond out of line and it is truly, truly time to move on.

Seriously. It's all well and good not to care what your "fans" think about you trying to get back your ex. It's fucking unacceptable not to care what your ex thinks about it.

I'm praying for Hilary Duff. Creepy exes are creepy, celebrity or no.

Also, wouldn't it be great if universities investigated rape as diligently and swiftly as they investigate rape accusations.

I went to UVA and I just want to reinforce the obvious: whether Jackie's story was straight up fiction or just had minor discrepancies, the depiction of how Virginia handles rape cases was absolutely, terrifyingly accurate. The way that people are already using this to discredit rape survivors and give the school a…

This. Little things like that the date was wrong (or, hell, it was the wrong fraternity) would be embarrassing (and potentially merit an apology to the frat they implicated) but that doesn't take away from the way UVA botched their handling of the case.

Also everyone's just going to forget that UVA's system is complete shit.

This is really bad, but a few things worth remembering:

I agree. Anna, your apology was heartfelt and passionate, just like your stories. Thank you.

I don't even know how to process this. So many levels of terrible. Well, shit.

Anna, everyone makes bad calls on the internet now and then. People who are able to own their mistakes are few and far between. Even fewer are those who offer abject apologies. Kudos.

My brain hurts from reading this

Excellent point. To me that argument or line of thinking comes off as legitimizing what the racist and/or clueless people feel and/or think. If we're trying to force change in how the system works, we don't need any input in the conversation from racist or clueless people. We've had their input for decades, it's…

I think you accidentally put "Midwest" and "South" when you just meant "America."

I think the disparity was always the point, just that it started from "when black people are suspected of a crime (Brown/Garner/Rice/etc) they get killed, when white people are suspected of a crime they get a funny story to tell." Then she started the tag that took it a step further — remove crime from the equation…

Yeah, I absolutely got the impression that the #crimingwhilewhite tweets were an effort to bolster what black folks have been saying, and sort of a catalog of experiences that counter the prevailing narrative (that the police are good guys that aren't racist and should be trusted) and something concrete that can be…

People commonly to listen / value the opinions of people like them, so these folks probably thought they were showing their fellow white people the contrast between how the justice system treats whites vs. how it treats minorities.