I agree. Suspend the coaches/administrators who did this, don't strip the title from the kids.

This was the second time this allegation was investigated. I guess they kept pushing until they got the result they wanted.

In my informal survey, I've heard people say that Americans are the loudest, most self-assured, friendliest, most outgoing, most inquisitive/sincerely interested of tourists, though all of those characteristics have the potential to veer into assholery at any moment.

Lots of women are stunned, confused, and hurt that a friend or acquaintance has raped them. It is not at all unusual for women to try to talk themselves out of thinking a rape has occurred or that they were somehow at fault or responsible for it occurring. It isn't difficult at all for me to understand why they don't…

Fuck you so very much. I haven't "blamed her" for fucking anything. Nothing. I believe her. I haven't expressed any desire whatsoever that she behave differently than she did. I understand her perspective. What we are discussing is how to address rape on college campuses while preserving people's rights. It's not a…

I don't know what the right answer for handling rapes is, quite honestly, but it doesn't seem fair to presume that the accuser is 100% trustworthy and that the accused is a rapist just on her or his say so. We are supposed to give the *accused* the benefit of the doubt; I don't know why we shouldn't in a university…

You can disagree without being a shithead.

True, but it's not as if being expelled is not disruptive to one's life. Is an accusation really all it takes at your school? What happens if the guy objects and appeals or sues the school and/or the woman who made the accusation? The guy in this case was initially kicked out, then appealed and won. It could just be…

What about the reverse situation? What if a vegan restaurant decided it would start to phase in meat?

In your zeal to start a fight with me, you have literally ignored everything I wrote, from comment #1. There are no straw man arguments, only the fact that you are trying desperately to misconstrue my comments simply to have someone to argue with.

HE released partial edited private conversations to the press to discredit her in the public eye and a rape-denying muckraker facilitated and expanded the smear job.

No, it's you who doesn't get it. I don't expect her to have any other behavior. I don't need her to act a certain way in order to believe her. I have said, REPEATEDLY, that if her case is to be anything more than she-said-he-said, then she will need more to corroborate her story. The text messages don't help her do…

I didn't say they contradict her testimony; I said that they don't help. There is no way that anyone who isn't her can look at those texts and say, "Clearly, something weird went down August 27. The tone of these texts is completely different." SHE knows what happened, but how would anyone else be able to say that she…

If that's all it takes, more rapes should be prosecuted.

I should have phrased my original comment in the past tense obviously.

Government or university court system.

How successful is that, though, without corroborating evidence of some sort? Having text messages that were negative toward him would have been helpful, but now a judge or jury will have to rely solely on her testimony given the context that they had had consensual sex on previous occasions and that she was friendly…

You're right that testimony is evidence, but it has to be backed up by something else, independent or corroborating evidence. Testimony at Birkenau and Auschwitz were indeed backed up by documentary evidence, diaries and letters, the existence of the camp itself, and the simple fact that people were missing. If she…

I think I understand why Sulkowicz wrote what she wrote to him, but I truly don't understand what she thinks the university or anyone else is supposed to do about it. The only two people who know what happened are her and the guy, but if she has no evidence, whether physical or circumstantial, there's not a whole hell…

I truly don't understand why people think the NFL is the appropriate organization to address