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Caught in a Web of Lies at UVA

Posted on | March 24, 2015 | 233 Comments

Oh! What a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.
— Sir Walter Scott

Police in Charlottesville, Virginia, spent months investigating the claims made in a Rolling Stone story and found no truth:

A four-month police investigation into an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia that Rolling Stone magazine described in graphic detail produced no evidence of the attack and was stymied by the accuser’s unwillingness to cooperate, authorities said Monday.
The article, titled “A rape on campus,” focused on a student identified only as “Jackie” who said she was raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity more than two years earlier. . . .
There were numerous discrepancies between the article, published in November 2014, and what investigators found, said Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo, who took care not to accuse Jackie of lying.
The case is suspended, not closed, and the fact that investigators could not find evidence years later “doesn’t mean that something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie,” Longo said. . . .
Asked if Jackie would be charged with making a false report, he said: “Absolutely not.”

Feminists immediately seized on that — Chief Longo’s unwillingness to rule out the possibility that “something terrible” happened — to insist that Jackie’s rape story could be true, except it’s really not.  Jackie’s story was a snipe hunt, a wild goose chase. Here’s the telltale clue:

Longo said Jackie’s first mention of an alleged assault came without key details, during a meeting she had with a dean about an academic issue in May 2013. The dean brought in police, but the case was dropped because Jackie didn’t want them to investigate, Longo said.
In any case, the “sexual act” she described that year was “not consistent with what was described” in the Rolling Stone article.

This is it, you see? Jackie is a serial liar.

She was a freshman having trouble in school, and so she lies. She tells the dean a vague story about being a rape victim. The dean asks police to investigate, but the liar won’t cooperate with the police because she knows her story is a lie. Jackie’s rape tale in May 2013, however, didn’t match the rape tale she told Rolling Stone in fall 2014. Why is this? The vague story she told the UVA dean was utilitarian, a deception meant to explain her problems in school, to depict herself as deserving of sympathy. The story Jackie told Rolling Stone, however . . .

Think about this: By fall 2014, Jackie had been living with her lies for two years. It started when she was a freshman in fall 2012 and tried to “catfish” her friend Ryan Duffin:

A University of Virginia student named Jackie appears to have used internet phone services to fabricate the identity of a man she says she was going on a date with on the night she claims she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members.
The fabrication of the man, who Jackie told her friends was named Haven Monahan, adds another layer of intrigue to a bizarre saga which has unfolded after the publication of a Rolling Stone article written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely . . .
Monahan appears to have come into existence soon after Jackie was romantically rejected by one of her friends, Ryan Duffin. . . .
“She did not take it well,” Duffin told The Daily Caller last week of Jackie’s response to the rejection. “There was a lot of crying involved.”
Soon after that, Jackie began talking about Monahan, a third-year student she claimed had a crush on her. Intrigued, the friends asked for Monahan’s phone number, and Jackie complied by giving it to them.
The friends began corresponding with Monahan, who often steered conversations back to Duffin, the friends told The Washington Times.
Despite claiming she was not interested in the man, Jackie told the friends she was going on a date with him on the night she later said she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi house party.

Read the whole thing in case you’ve forgotten how the story Jackie told Rolling Stone hinges on the identity of her “date” the night in September 2012 she claims she was gang-raped. There is every reason to believe that this story was invented by Jackie in a misguided attempt to solicit sympathy from her friends, especially Ryan Duffin.

However, we must keep in mind an alternative hypothesis: Just because Jackie lied about where she was and who she was with that night in September 2012 “doesn’t mean that something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie,” as Chief Longo said. In other words, having invented a boyfriend for a make-believe date that night, Jackie could have been assaulted by a person or persons unknown. Because of her own previous deceptions, however, she couldn’t tell her friends the truth. Furthermore, if indeed “something terrible” did happen to her that night, Jackie didn’t want anyone to find out what it actually was. Whether or not Jackie was assaulted that night, the underlying falsehood — the Haven Monahan catfishing deception — destroys her credibility.

Once you catch a liar lying, you cannot believe a word they say.

Someone who would engage in an elaborate deception like inventing a fake boyfriend, using fake phone numbers to write fake text messages from “Haven Monahan,” is not trustworthy.

Maybe Jackie did go out with a guy that night. Maybe the guy did treat her badly, perhaps even sexually assaulted her.

Maybe — although we cannot accept anything as true merely because Jackie says it, because we know that Jackie is a a liar.

Whatever actually happened to Jackie that night, we don’t know and cannot know, because the only source for the story has proven herself untrustworthy. And so when she told a UVA dean in May 2013 that she had been sexually assaulted, Jackie was uncooperative when the dean called the police. Yet the assault Jackie vaguely described to the UVA dean in May 2013 was “not consistent” with the story Jackie told Rolling Stone‘s Sabrina Rubin Erdely in fall 2014. If we have two versions of the story from the same source, and these stories differ significantly as to the time, place and nature of the events described, we cannot necessarily conclude that nothing happened, but we can conclude that the source is unreliable, i.e., Jackie is a liar.

So now we come to the real question: Why couldn’t Sabrina Rubin Erdely and her editors at Rolling Stone figure this out?

Why did they decide to rush to print with this wild story about a fraternity gang rape based on the word of a source who, as we now know, clearly had a habit of deliberate deception?

Rolling Stone editors must answer that question and, meanwhile, officials at the University of Virginia must answer another question: Why hasn’t Jackie been expelled for lying?

Jackie’s malicious lie about Phi Kappa Psi was a clear violation of the UVA honor code. Whatever the truth may be, Jackie lied to a national publication, defaming her fellow students, wrongly damaging the reputation of the university.

Jackie must be held accountable for her lies. The university’s institutional prestige is on the line, and only cowardice can prevent UVA officials from expelling her for her dishonesty.





 

Category: Crime, Education, Journalism, Sex Trouble

Her Royal Majesty Shall Increase Your Chocolate Ration To 20oz From 30oz Per Week #HillaryCampaignSlogans

Posted on | March 23, 2015 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Hillary Clinton, humor

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday

Posted on | March 23, 2015 | 29 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I was discussing SF with a friend of mine tonight, and we both agreed that the main problem with Charles Stross’ Laundry novels (wherein MI-6 meets the Great Old Ones) is that there’s too much bizarre and disgusting sex (see Equoid) and not enough sex involving Bob’s rather deadly, musically inclined spouse, Dr. Dominique “Mo” Howard. We agreed that in the movie, it didn’t much matter who plays Bob, but Mo absolutely has to be played by Christina Hendricks. Thus, tonight’s illustration.

The Special Hell. You’re going there.
(Ms. Hendricks as Saffron, a.k.a. “Our Mrs. Reynolds”, from “Firefly”)

As usual, many of the following links lead to pictures normally considered NSFW, so exercise discretion as to when and where you click. Management is not responsible for unfortunate consequences attendant on your lack of discretion.

Leading off this week is Average Bubba with Rule 5 Hump Day, followed by Goodstuff getting all hot and bothered with Anna Ohura and Anna May Wong plus other delights, Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns; Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Loose Endz delivers the Spring Break Wrapup and Haley Atwell as Agent Carter. Also, First Street Journal does the IDF this week.

EBL checks in with Maureen O’Hara, Mentos Challenge Done Wrong Rule 5, Kate Upton in Zero-G, Ainsley Earhardt, Sophia Loren, Michelle Malkin, and a Shameless Scandi Rule 5.

A View from the Beach brings us Gigi Hadid, More Duck Tape, Your Thursday Morning Jog, EPA Takes Aim at the Good Things in Life, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!, “I Cry for Love”, Ankh Morpork in Mourning, the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy?, and Clean Up in Aisle 5!

American Power returns after a long absence with Rosie Jones, Charlotte McKinney, Gwen Stefani, Kate Hudson, and Kelly Brook.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s cream for your coffee, Monday Motivationer Ashley, Overnighty Ski Lidia, Tuesday Titillation Gemma, Evening Invention Awesome: The Cameltoe Swing, Humpday Hawtness Khristina, Overnighty Michelle, An Irish Fursday Submission, Evening Awesome Stretch, Corsetation Iteration, Equinox Knockers, Weekender, and Bath Night.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Lily Aldridge, his Vintage Babe is Kay Aldridge, and Sex In Advertising this week is in the paint. Nekkid vegetarians are promised for next Rule 5 Sunday. At Dustbury, it’s Lights and Aysun Kayaci, while Three Beers Later favors us with Rule 5 Bongo Man.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Despite the fact that I’m going to be in Minnesota, away from the Internet, and unable to do Rule 5 Sunday next weekend, I encourage you to send in your links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox regardless, so that we can give spring a proper welcome with a double dip Rule 5 Sunday in two weeks.


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Why I’m Not A Campaign Manager

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 48 Comments

by Smitty

I’m a huge Ted Cruz fan. I like the fact that he is willing to admit that the ethanol mandate is bogus and needs to go. I’d love to see him do this, but it would probably be a Bad Move:

Category: humor, Politics

The #NYFLC2015 Agenda

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 15 Comments

OK, I previously included excerpts of this extraordinarily queer program from the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference. Now I have uploaded the full document:

#NYFLC2015 Feminist Conference Agenda

As I said previously, I must apologize for the low quality of this scan because the Feminist Majority Agenda didn’t list the panel descriptions or name the participants on their web site. This was scanned using a smartphone by a person who deserves credit, but until that person grants me permission to credit them, I’m protecting my source from the Feminist Wrath Brigades.

Now, here’s where I need help from readers: Go through the list of speakers and identify (in the comments) every speaker who identifies as “queer,” “lesbian,” “trans,” LGBT, etc. Just a list of names will do, but if somebody could count them and then calculate what percentage of the speakers were self-identified weirdos, that would be helpful, too. Links to online biographies of the speakers would be an extra bonus.





 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

They’re Here! They’re Queer!

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 33 Comments

They’re the #NYFLC2015! The Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Feminist Leadership Conference is meeting this weekend in Washington, D.C., but if you mistook this event for a lesbian festival, the confusion is not your fault. Last year, several attendees at the conference complained that the event was not “queer” enough. No one could make that complaint this year. A blue-haired nose-pierced teenager who last year demanded “more queer feminism” this year was crying in joy over a speech by lesbian activist Darlene Nipper.

Queer feminists were everywhere at this year’s conference, including on the “Sex Positivity” panel, where college girls learned about “exploring and deconstructing gender norms and promoting self-love.”

There was a “Queering Your Campus” panel offering college girls “inclusive discussions . . . to organize on campus for gender-neutral restrooms or housing” and “sustain a queer campus community.”

Queering Your Campus

Nancy Aragon, National Campus Organizer, FMF
Rukia Brooks, Feminist Collective, University of South Carolina
Cassidy Hammond, Feminists Organizing Real Transformation Here (FORTH), SUNY Purchase
Beth Feldstein, Wellesley College
Samantha Master, Youth and Campus Engagement Manager, Human Rights Campaign
Koda Mehalba, President, The Alliance, Salem State University

And then, of course, there was the “LGBTQ Frontiers” panel because “it’s time for our activism around LGBTQ+ to expand,” teaching “what true liberation and equality for LGBTQ people looks like.”

LGBTQ Frontiers: Beyond Marriage Equality

Gautam Raghavan, Vice President of Policy, The Gill Foundation
Shelley Hallstead, Law Students for Reproductive Justice Fellow, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Laura Durson, Director, Center for American Progress LBGTQ Research and Communications Project
Cathy Santos, Secretary & Co-Founder of Trans Students Advisory Committee, Feminist Collective, University of South Carolina


Just included a couple of biographies to point out that these college girls were spending the weekend in Washington with Nancy Aragon, “a proud queer feminist,” and Samantha Master, a “Black, queer, feminist activist,” among others. Hey, did you notice the name of Carmen Rios here? Yeah, we remember the “raging lesbian feminist” Carmen Rios.

Just a few tweets of possible interest to feminist youth:

Please excuse the low-quality scans from the #NYFLC2015 program. The Feminist Majority Agenda didn’t list the panel descriptions or name the participants on their web site — I wonder why? — and so my source scanned in pages using a smartphone. Not going to name my source without permission. I wouldn’t want an agent of the patriarchy to be targeted for “inclusivity” by a mob of angry lesbians.





 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

John Doe v. Cornell

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 40 Comments

One night in December 2013, a male Cornell University student hooked up with a female student at the woman’s apartment. Both students had been drinking. More than two months later, the woman “filed a complaint against Plaintiff, alleging that Plaintiff raped Jane Doe on December 14, 2013, while she was incapacitated.” Note the word “Plaintiff” in that sentence and also note the word “complaint.” The female student did not file criminal charges; rather, she complained to university officials who conducted their own “investigation” and expelled the male student, who is now suing the university, saying that officials violated his rights:

In a 53-page complaint, the student’s attorneys launch a wide-ranging critique of both Cornell’s handling of the specific case and the overall framework of the university’s judicial system.
The lawsuit also assails the university’s decision in 2013 to lower the burden of proof for sexual assault cases from a “clear and convincing” standard of evidence to the much-lower “preponderance” standard of evidence.
But Cornell failed to administer even this lower standard of evidence fairly, the lawsuit contends.

You can read more at Legal Insurrection, where Professor William Jacobson notes that this is at least the third pending lawsuit by male students who have been subjected to unjust disciplinary proceedings for sexual assault claims. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Rape is a felony. If someone rapes you, call the cops. Don’t wait two months and then demand that university officials to “investigate” your hookup and punish a guy because your casual hookup was unpleasant or embarrassing. While it is always impossible to know the truth of what happened in a “he-said/she-said” incident like this, let me point out what should be obvious: This was a one-night stand that occurred after four witnesses had been at the apartment with John Doe and his accuser, and evidently knew he spent the night with her. It would be a common-sense inference that, because this hookup was not followed by further sexual intimacy or a romantic relationship, that there was a lack of any deep attraction between John Doe and his accuser.

Ergo, to continue our common-sense inference, the accuser felt remorse about her behavior. Yet post-hookup remorse is (a) not uncommon and (b) not proof that the hookup was rape.

Also: RAAAAACISM!

Can we be honest about our common-sense inferences here? Read the complaint closely. Both of these students were majoring in chemical engineering. The female is of German ancestry, while the male student is from California, studied piano for 10 years, was part of his high school “Science Bowl” club, and “John Doe’s immigrant parents strive for the ‘American Dream’ of educating John Doe at a prestigious University.”

I got $20 that says this guy is Asian-American, probably of Chinese ancestry. Anybody want to bet against me? No, you don’t.

OK, so the Teutonic Goddess spends the night with this geeky Asian guy. She perceives a subsequent diminution of her social status, and it is that which inspires her vengeful claim of rape.

If my common-sense inference is correct — c’mon, I got $20 here — then John Doe v. Cornell would be at least the second such recent case. At Vassar College, Chinese-American student Peter Wu was accused of rape by white girl Mary Claire Walker.

A blog is not an appropriate venue to pass judgment on college students’ sexual activities, and neither is a college disciplinary process the appropriate venue to try a rape case. The sooner we all agree that rape is a felony, which should always and only be prosecuted in criminal courts, the better. Until such time, however, I’ll be here imposing judgment in these cases, employing the vast resources of slut-shaming misogyny available to me as an agent of male supremacy — including that most notorious weapon of the heteronormative patriarchy, common sense.





 

Category: Crime, Education, Legal Insurrection, Sex Trouble

Late Night In The FMJRA Mine

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Can We Make #FactsMatter Trend?
Law of Markets
Regular Right Guy
Matt Barber
Freedom’s Floodgates
Batshit Crazy News
BCNN2

This Is So True
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Dyspepsia Generation
Muslim Anonymous

In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Victim
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Anti-Police Protester Jeffrey Williams Arrested for Shooting Two Police Officers
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Bits Blog

Oh No: Rachel Marie Stone Caught At Christianity Today Wielding An Airbrush
Batshit Crazy News

Hmmm …
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Both Ends Burning
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Rule 5 Sunday: Congratulations, Miss Palin!
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

‘Sickening Desires’
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Band Idea: The Alpha Epsilon Stigma
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Wonders: Why Do Christofascist Godbags Keep ‘Dehumanizing’ Hillary?
Batshit Crazy News
SpangNation

The Riot Ideology in Ferguson
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Fake #GamerGate Victims
Regular Right Guy
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 03.17.15
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

CASE DISMISSED!
Batshit Crazy News

‘Wearing Murdoch’s Leash’
Batshit Crazy News

Netanyahu Wins, Obama Loses
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy
A View from the Beach

Fernando To Her Majesty:”Dahling, You Look Mahvelous”
Dustbury
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Of Strange Worlds and Heroic Adventure
Regular Right Guy

But … ‘Progressive’!
Batshit Crazy News

From a Ph.D. Dissertation
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach

Murderer Served Only 13 Years for Killing Girlfriend, and Guess What Happened?
Batshit Crazy News
First Street Journal


Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (20)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (9)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Next weekend’s FMJRA will be delayed until April Fool’s Day, since I’ll be in Minnesota and off the net.


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