It's because Yale actually pre-existed the founding of New Haven. Yale was founded in 1701, while New Haven was not officially incorporated until 1784. Yale also does not pay any property taxes to the city of New Haven, despite owning about 2/3rds of the downtown property. This is pretty much single-handedly…

Agreed. As a Yale alum, I can definitely confirm this from firsthand experience. On the bright side (???) this is true for all sorts of other crimes, too, not just sexual assault. And by "bright side" I guess I just mean this says more about classism/money/douchebag privilege in general rather than specifically…

No, I haven't but I will certainly check it out.

Have you read twilight of the elites by Chris Hayes? It touches on some of what you are asking for.

With Levy, I also wonder how much of that is also a generational reluctance to see anything on the web that is not tied to meatspace, like a university or print media, as of less value or integrity. I see many of her points but I feel she's suffering from a bit of an elite view of both the accessibility of justice to…

That quote needs major dissemination so that every woman he tries to date in the future sees it and knows what she's getting into. His future coworkers should know, too.

The narrative that goes through these stories is: there are dozens of onlookers; she’s taken from party to party; she’s raped at multiple locations,” Hanlin said. “Understandably, people are outraged when they read that, because it makes it look as though there is a whole group of kids here who watched and heckled and…

I kindof riffed on this some more because I got a little obsessed reading about this.

"community property"? 'COMMUNITY PROPERTY?!"

Indeed. I viewed the blog more as the kind of reportage mainstream media more frequently fails to do than as vigelante justice. And if the system fails you, what other recourse do you have? Who does watch the watchers?

I realize this isn't about the main part of this article, but one thing really bothers me — and it's this idea that having been a rape survivor will hinder this young woman's ability to get accepted to college.

I think your point about whether or not the author was too subtle in her distinctions is spot on. I appreciate her trying to "set the record straight", and the article was interesting overall. But unfortunately the "rape culture" is real statements feel too much like asides. As if she's saying "Well yeah, rape culture…

Ok, I read through the whole article. A lot of it is quotes from interviews with people who live in Steubenville, so I don't completely know where the author stands, but I didn't really like the overall picture presented in the article. It suggests that the trial would have gone smoothly & fairly if only this blogger…

"intoxicated teen-agers are the world’s worst thinkers..."

Well, comparing rape to being mugged isn't really accurate. You get mugged for money (9 times out of 10, at least...) You can be raped due to a number of things on the rapist's mind—need for power, psychological issues, or just entitlement to sex as in date rape cases. It's not just "sex" driving them. So you can…

It's never ever *ever* the victim's fault. I firmly believe that.

Seriously, have these people never apologized to a person before?

For realsies, I read that statement and thought 'Someone's publicist is earning their check this morning'. If you read the Deadspin article, the quotes that are include make her sound like tennis' Taylor Swift: "I'm just so easy to get along with that other girls don't like me. But they're all dumb-dumbs so whatever."

It's like when Tracy Morgan's apology included the self-descriptor "jokester" and you instantly knew he had nothing to do with it.

Oh. Okay. Yes, of course. It was just really hard to get to the heart of what you meant through all the victim blaming and judgment you were actually saying out loud.