I had been mildly skeptical of the Rolling Stone story about a flamboyantly evil gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. It seemed more than a little too good to be true. You could not have invented a story that would better validate every single feminist claim about the supposed "rape epidemic" on college campuses and the "rape culture" that supposedly supports it. It didn't hurt that the story also played perfectly into elite intellectuals' natural prejudice against frat boys. So I withheld judgment until the story faced a little scrutiny and could be verified by more than just one report in one magazine.
Everybody Loses in the UVA Rape Story
Everybody Loses in the UVA Rape Story
Everybody Loses in the UVA Rape Story
I had been mildly skeptical of the Rolling Stone story about a flamboyantly evil gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. It seemed more than a little too good to be true. You could not have invented a story that would better validate every single feminist claim about the supposed "rape epidemic" on college campuses and the "rape culture" that supposedly supports it. It didn't hurt that the story also played perfectly into elite intellectuals' natural prejudice against frat boys. So I withheld judgment until the story faced a little scrutiny and could be verified by more than just one report in one magazine.