MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2026
The story starts right there: We've chosen VALUES as our touchstone this week. It could simply have been CORNELL
We admired Jessica Weiner's guest essay in yesterday's New York Times. Headline included, her essay started like this, online headline included:
I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Shows How Bad They Really Are.
Four weeks ago, I dropped off my younger daughter to start her freshman year at college...
And so on from there. Given the reporting from Cornell, it isn't clear that Weiner had to say anything more than that.
Meanwhile, yes! Leaving any legal decisions to the appropriate legal processes, it seems to us that everything about this latest case does indeed seem to show "how bad [things] really are" in this profoundly important area of deep human concern.
Our analysts continue to filter back onto our sprawling campus, returning from their recent journeys to points unknown. Starting tomorrow, we'll focus on these Cornell events and the world from which they emerge.
When it comes to tragedies of this type, we possess a lifetime of thoughts.
Did Jessica Weiner raise her child where there are no men?
ReplyDeleteSomerby refers to this Cornell gang rape as a tragedy. I call it a crime that was improperly investigated and not prosecuted.
ReplyDeleteEvery aspect of this crime could have been prevented. @10:30 illustrates the attitude that leads to such crimes. It is the idea that men cannot control themselves, that they have no responsibility to do so, and that women are fair game for rapists if they are not constantly vigilant, including avoiding parties and never drinking alcohol even though men do that freely and without similar constraint.
1. Why was no responsible adult at the frat monitoring the drinking and especially the illegal drug use? Apparently no one intervened in a 4-hour long gang rape at the House.
2. Why do frats allow the use of upstairs bedrooms for sex during frat parties?
3. Why do sororities and dorms not teach women who attend parties to look out for each other and encourage those who have drunk too much to leave?
4. Why are Somerby and others here focusing only on the punishment this woman received by being raped, and not looking at the cover-up of the crime and failure to prosecute the men who also failed to behave responsibly by raping a drunk woman?
5. Why should any drunken person at a party be in grave personal danger, and not just making a spectacle of themselves in a harmless way? Would men at a frat be similarly engaged in humiliating and physically harmful attacks on a male who got drunk at their party?
6. Who teaches men that it is OK to sexually attack women who are incapacitated?
7. Why are illegal drugs tolerated in frats or other places? For example, why was Musk not investigated and imprisoned when he was openly using illegal drugs at Mar a Lago?
8. Why is Beer Bong Brett sitting with a lifetime appointment on the corrupt Supreme Court?
DeleteAny bystander to this rape could have called 9-1-1. Why didn't they?
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ReplyDeleteMy heart is bleeding for drunken sluts attending elite universities.