Around one quarter were unrapable girls who got touched in their naughty place by desperate men and they called it rape for attention.
The rest experienced something someone could reasonably consider traumatic rape to a sane individual. However, the majority of these were by a father/uncle/brother figure and not on a college campus.
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September 09, 2014, 07:41:46 AM
September 09, 2014, 07:37:37 AM
I think college rape is a very serious issue that tends to get downplayed by universities so that their reputations don't suffer, and thus victims are often forced to suffer in silence and live with the injustice. I find her project to be a very creative and apt metaphor for what these victims must be going through.
It happens, it does. This kind of shit is a third wave feminism victim tactic. I've attended multiple TBTN events and around half of the stories start with "I was getting drunk at a party, don’t remember a lot, but..." or "I was stripping as a source of income and got sold into a human trafficking ring..."
September 09, 2014, 07:23:39 AM
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in other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear.
I wouldn't view it as that. I would imagine that justice for the crime, or knowing that her rapist can't harass her anymore, is one of the first steps in the healing process. Unless you think she has just been faking panic attacks when her rapist is around. When I was in college, I made the mistake of dating 3 girls from the same dorm. One day I walked in to pick one up, and all 3 were sitting together by the reception desk. I turned around and walked off. Never again. Had they wanted to be assholes, I could have easily been brought up on 3 charges of sexual assault.
September 09, 2014, 07:20:49 AM
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in other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear.
I wouldn't view it as that. I would imagine that justice for the crime, or knowing that her rapist can't harass her anymore, is one of the first steps in the healing process. Unless you think she has just been faking panic attacks when her rapist is around. September 09, 2014, 07:18:27 AM
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in other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear.
I wouldn't view it as that. I would imagine that justice for the crime, or knowing that her rapist can't harass her anymore, is one of the first steps in the healing process. Unless you think she has just been faking panic attacks when her rapist is around. 
September 09, 2014, 07:17:55 AM
I'm not suggesting that should be enough to land a conviction. It shouldn't. The deck is already stacked against defendants as it is. I don't think making it easier to convict people would be a step in the right direction. I think first acknowledging that we live in a rape culture and then addressing that problem by creating an environment in which girls can talk about being victimized without everyone immediately assuming they're lying would be a better direction.
One that believes people are innocent until proven guilty. But to NOT do that invites the sick fuck rapist to do it again and again.That's the reality. I'm not suggesting it's easy, but I am saying it's a necessary hardship for a civilized community.
September 09, 2014, 07:14:37 AM
I think college rape is a very serious issue that tends to get downplayed by universities so that their reputations don't suffer, and thus victims are often forced to suffer in silence and live with the injustice. I find her project to be a very creative and apt metaphor for what these victims must be going through.
I predict she will stop it soon on her own.She's focusing on the justice (where she disagreed with the verdict on the rape charge), not the actual long lasting trauma that rape victims usually endure with or without the alleged rapists being punished. In other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear. September 09, 2014, 07:12:18 AM
I'm not suggesting that should be enough to land a conviction. It shouldn't. The deck is already stacked against defendants as it is. I don't think making it easier to convict people would be a step in the right direction. I think first acknowledging that we live in a rape culture and then addressing that problem by creating an environment in which girls can talk about being victimized without everyone immediately assuming they're lying would be a better direction.
Anal rape is not a normal extension of we were messing around, we both got naked, things went a little too far and he got the wrong idea. Anal intercourse, at lease between heterosexuals, is not a casual thing. 
September 09, 2014, 07:03:05 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/emma-sulkowicz-mattress-rape-columbia-university_n_5755612.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular&ir=Canada+Living
it's crazy
what do you think?
it's crazy
what do you think?
Seems like an attention seeker at first glance im just not feeling her pain. Shes a visual arts student so i guess this is her way of expressing. If she really was concerned about the attacker on campus would she stay there and also if she was raped would she stay there? People deal with things differently i guess.
September 09, 2014, 06:58:05 AM
I'm not suggesting that should be enough to land a conviction. It shouldn't. The deck is already stacked against defendants as it is. I don't think making it easier to convict people would be a step in the right direction. I think first acknowledging that we live in a rape culture and then addressing that problem by creating an environment in which girls can talk about being victimized without everyone immediately assuming they're lying would be a better direction.
September 09, 2014, 06:50:43 AM
Every time this topic comes up I find myself wondering how these things end up in university "justice" systems instead of in courts of law, which is where we would normally deal with things like accusations of rape, murder, physical assault, etc.
I have to agree with this. I'm out of touch with this topic. Why isn't this a police/court thing rather than a university thing? September 09, 2014, 06:47:34 AM
Remorseful slam-pig trying to gain college credit in an art class by dragging a mattress around campus re-telling her 2 year old tale of regretful woe. I hope she gets an "F" for her effort. This is why many college degrees are now deemed worthless.
You don't just get anally raped in your own dorm room on your own mattress like a bolt out of the blue. Unless there was a break-in, and a trip to the student clinic after the assault for treatment to her ravaged ass.
There was either some significant complicity here, the dude was hung like a pencil, she had a very loose anal spinkter from previous anal intrusions, and/or we are definitely not getting the whole story.
You don't just get anally raped in your own dorm room on your own mattress like a bolt out of the blue. Unless there was a break-in, and a trip to the student clinic after the assault for treatment to her ravaged ass.
There was either some significant complicity here, the dude was hung like a pencil, she had a very loose anal spinkter from previous anal intrusions, and/or we are definitely not getting the whole story.
September 09, 2014, 06:43:08 AM
Every time this topic comes up I find myself wondering how these things end up in university "justice" systems instead of in courts of law, which is where we would normally deal with things like accusations of rape, murder, physical assault, etc.
I have to agree with this. I'm out of touch with this topic. Why isn't this a police/court thing rather than a university thing? September 09, 2014, 06:34:54 AM
Every time this topic comes up I find myself wondering how these things end up in university "justice" systems instead of in courts of law, which is where we would normally deal with things like accusations of rape, murder, physical assault, etc.
I have to agree with this. I'm out of touch with this topic. Why isn't this a police/court thing rather than a university thing? September 09, 2014, 06:22:42 AM
Every time this topic comes up I find myself wondering how these things end up in university "justice" systems instead of in courts of law, which is where we would normally deal with things like accusations of rape, murder, physical assault, etc.
Standard of proof is too high in court. Rape victims don't want to go through months of reliving the encounter in court being forced to face their assailant only for him to ultimately be found not guilty due to a lack of evidence, a verdict that is then held over the rape victim by a society that likes to imagine that girls always "lie" about being raped. September 09, 2014, 06:17:21 AM
I think college rape is a very serious issue that tends to get downplayed by universities so that their reputations don't suffer, and thus victims are often forced to suffer in silence and live with the injustice. I find her project to be a very creative and apt metaphor for what these victims must be going through.
I predict she will stop it soon on her own.She's focusing on the justice (where she disagreed with the verdict on the rape charge), not the actual long lasting trauma that rape victims usually endure with or without the alleged rapists being punished. In other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear. I suspect that to have endured those things, just to get mistreated by law enforcement then dismissed by school officials prompts one to feel something more passionate than "disagreement".
September 09, 2014, 06:15:03 AM
Every time this topic comes up I find myself wondering how these things end up in university "justice" systems instead of in courts of law, which is where we would normally deal with things like accusations of rape, murder, physical assault, etc.
September 09, 2014, 06:11:14 AM
I think college rape is a very serious issue that tends to get downplayed by universities so that their reputations don't suffer, and thus victims are often forced to suffer in silence and live with the injustice. I find her project to be a very creative and apt metaphor for what these victims must be going through.
I predict she will stop it soon on her own.She's focusing on the justice (where she disagreed with the verdict on the rape charge), not the actual long lasting trauma that rape victims usually endure with or without the alleged rapists being punished. In other word, or in her words, as soon as the alleged rapist is expelled or her justice is served, all those psychological burdens will just all of a sudden disappear. September 09, 2014, 06:06:52 AM
I think college rape is a very serious issue that tends to get downplayed by universities so that their reputations don't suffer, and thus victims are often forced to suffer in silence and live with the injustice. I find her project to be a very creative and apt metaphor for what these victims must be going through.
September 09, 2014, 05:44:49 AM
An even better piece would be her wearing a sign around her neck with the persons name and picture, saying the guy raped her, that way everyone knows who the person is, if the school isn’t going to do anything she might as well let everyone know who did it .
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