Read the Cathy Young piece. She DID contact the accusers but they chose not to participate. If it was so important to get their stories out why didn’t they speak with Cathy Young? And the quotes weren’t out of context. They were entire Facebook messages written AFTER the alleged rape that said silly things like “Paul!…

She wouldn’t go to the police because of concerns about how her complaint would be treated, but was willing to drag a mattress around the Columbia campus for months as a for-credit project, attracting the attention of the world?

Relax. Your emphatic cursing doesn’t make this true. As a matter of fact, dropping the F bomb and typing in caps during what is considered intellectual discourse completely invalidates in other people’s eyes what you view as a valid argument.

not going to get her cause very far.

The author of this article is anonymous, and isn’t opening her personal life to anything.

Jesus Christ dipshit, it was a joke.

I see her latest line is spreading the “calculated vendetta” bit to try and dampen the impact of Nungesser having multiple accusations against him.

Sukowicz’s accusations are suspect and it’s bad for feminism not to acknowledge it.

Eventually, I withdrew from the process. Why should I trust a system that had given my assailant another chance?

I am in my late 50s. I have met generation after generation of young people who think they invented sex. I was a participant in the sexual revolution, took full advantage of the contraceptive pill and believe in abortion rights. Having said that I think women still lose out. I don't get friends with benefits. I think…

How do you know that this was their first reaction? Could it be they had many reactions before commenting, and the element that was confusing to them was the fact that she didn’t go to the police? I was brought up to question everything, why is this a subject that shouldn’t be questioned?

That’s a really horrible comparison - and completely untrue. But simply asking the question of “if you’re willing to write 1500 word articles at a moment’s notice, and consider this such an important thing, why did you not follow through with the appeal or file a police report?” Those are genuine questions. Even…

I make my living prosecuting criminals. It’s a constant struggle to get victims and witnesses to follow through with the process- just today, I had two young men failed to appear for a hearing on the man who shot them.

But he’s not a fucking rapist because he hasn’t been found guilty. I don’t understand. Were you there when this rape happened?

I mean schools can't reall do much, and in my opinion shouldn't. We have laws for a reason. If someone broke that law, they should be punished legally. I'm not comfortable for schools using extrajudicial authority because they have proven on all ends of the spectrum that they are incapable and unable to perform…

before he appealed away the conviction, Paul Nungesser was found responsible for sexually assaulting a woman at Columbia

That is because sexual assault is a catch all for anything from a misjudged kiss to rape. So almost everyone has experienced a misjudged kiss or a drunken squeeze (both not okay) but when you read the stats, you assume everyone has been raped because rape is what people think of when someone says they were sexually…

Statistically, you are more safe at college in terms of rape than you are out of college.

You’re right in the fact that investigations are often invasive and exhausting, but this is the same girl who carried a mattress for like two years. If she had the strength to do that she could have... maybe should have used it to follow through with the investigation.

Here is the ultimate problem with Rape vs our society legal system. And I doubt this will make it out of the pending section, but it needs to be said. As progressives we have high standards for proving someone guilty of a crime. This goes doubly so with the increased scrutiny of police and overzealous prosecutors. We…