The assumption that women lie is foundational to our culture. If your premise is that women can’t be trusted to tell the truth, then, no, it’s not okay to question her conclusion.

Read this. http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-11-how-we-teach-our-kids-that-women-are-liars

None. My then boyfriend, roommate, and family kept asking questions that made me feel as if no one in the world believed me. The prosecutor basically sealed the deal when she informed me that I would be crucified on the stand because I returned to the restaurant as requested and climbed into his car willingly.

Yes, because both of those have such a positive track record for thoroughly investigating and pursuing rape investigations.

True enough, but how many guys do you know who were accused of rape or sexual.assault by 4 different people? There are people sitting in jail who couldn’t point out anyone who answered that description.

Absolutely true. I don’t understand why so many commenters think it’s wrong of us to believe he’s a rapist, innocent until.proven guilty is a principle juries must follow but this isn’t a trial. Here, we can judge based on what we know of the world and on things we learned about the accused that might not have been…

You know what ruins a person’s life? Getting raped. You know what’s even worse? Getting raped and no one does anything about it.

The article does not say she is lying...

Those statistics are glaring and confirm what most women have been saying for years. I’m hoping the result of the Columbia debacle is that they treat every accusation seriously from the very beginning. You need actual proof and not a statistic. No one should be convicted because they fit a statistical model and no…

You defend someone who literally got paid to rape and get away with it, and you think I’m despicable? You seriously need to reexamine your perspective.

Women and men, apparently he was accused of sexual assault by 3 students, one of them was a male victim.

Eh, not really. I was involved in this scene at my school for many years. False accusations do happen, but I can honestly say I saw ONE out of well over a hundred that I was personally involved in. It certainly wasn’t something you had to guard against with enormous effort. At that age, most accused are not all…

You clearly don’t have much experience with the courts and sexual assault. They don’t give two fucks about it. And we’re not taking the word of a news writer. We’re taking the word of the victim.

Four people accused him of sexual assault (IIRC, 3 were of rape and 1 was of nonconsensual touching and kissing—that was the person who sent Cathy Young the “updog” response). It’s not just Sulkowicz’s word.

How is she guilty of harassing him? She’s an art student. She carried a mattress as an art project. She didn’t send him nasty letters or stalk him or egg his car. Maybe his life was uncomfortable being known as Paul Nungesser, alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz, but life is uncomfortable sometimes when you can’t control…

Gee, I didn’t know believing a guy is an asshole who got away with a crime is the same as sending him to jail. Thanks for informing us of our power Thought Police.

Just so you know, it’s actually incredibly common for rape victims to treat their rapists normally afterwards. I know women who cooked their rapists breakfast the next morning. I continued dating a rapist for some time after he first raped me. It didn’t make the fact that I was crying and saying, “no, stop, please,…

A small percentage of rape reports are false; most studies put it around 3-8%. Most rapists also lie about whether or not they raped someone. So there’s (generously) a 92% chance that the victim is telling the truth and this guy is a rapist. I feel those are good odds.

That would be because most of us have already read a number of articles about this situition over the last couple of years and we aren’t just coming in ignorant.

So, the time for him while he was at college was “difficult” while she was literally the one who carried all the weight.

“...Paul’s remaining time at Columbia became very difficult for him and not what Columbia would want any of its students to experience.”