<story><title>The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault/539211/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Part 1 of this series &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy&amp;#x2F;538974&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-un...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;starts off with a story that sounds like a modern retelling of To Kill A Mockingbird: A white woman has consensual sex with a black man. Later she becomes worried about what other people will think and accuses the black man of rape. He then undergoes a sham trial and is found guilty and punished. The big difference is that in To Kill A Mockingbird, they at least pretended to have due process giving the accused a lawyer and allowing him to confront his accuser. The modern version doesn&amp;#x27;t even have a pretence of due process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>That is frightening. Very frightening. I mean, she did what she did. But later, disclaimed responsibility. Arguably because she was stoned. And the guy, who was also stoned, was arguably supposed to excuse himself from the situation, because she was too stoned to consent.&lt;p&gt;But of course, he was also too stoned to consent, so arguably she raped him just as much as he raped her.&lt;p&gt;That will never happen, of course. Women do get prosecuted for sex with underage men. But never, as far as I know, for having sex with someone incapable of consenting.&lt;p&gt;This is crazy shit. I mean, under these circumstances, what sane man at university would ever have sex with a woman? It&amp;#x27;s like playing Russian Roulette. Or speeding excessively on the interstate. Sure, most of the time, there&amp;#x27;s never an issue. But when there is, it&amp;#x27;s a dramaticly bad issue. Often life destroying.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It&amp;#x27;s been decades since I had any personal experience with university age people. There are children and grandchildren of friends, for sure, but I don&amp;#x27;t talk substantively with them. All I know is what I read in mass media. So it occurs to me that it&amp;#x27;s just that some rare events get hyped. And that dating for most university students remains uneventful. Anyone have some insight or references?</text></comment>
<story><title>The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault/539211/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Part 1 of this series &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy&amp;#x2F;538974&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;education&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-un...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;starts off with a story that sounds like a modern retelling of To Kill A Mockingbird: A white woman has consensual sex with a black man. Later she becomes worried about what other people will think and accuses the black man of rape. He then undergoes a sham trial and is found guilty and punished. The big difference is that in To Kill A Mockingbird, they at least pretended to have due process giving the accused a lawyer and allowing him to confront his accuser. The modern version doesn&amp;#x27;t even have a pretence of due process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gedy</author><text>&amp;gt; The modern version doesn&amp;#x27;t even have a pretence of due process.&lt;p&gt;Seems largely due to this needing to be handled in a criminal matter where there are laws, and not vague&amp;#x2F;varying campus rules and bureaucratic processes</text></comment>