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The woman’s friends said a group of men had tried to block them from entering the bathroom after the men were seen “cheering and appearing to encourage the activity inside,” according to the report.
The group of up to five men initially told the woman’s friends she wasn’t inside the bathroom, the report says. When the two other women pushed forward, a man grabbed one of them by the hair as the other picked the bathroom lock, according to the report.
These people should be charged as well for being accomplices
the correct thing is going to the police and filing a report, a prestigious UNIVERSITY will not do such thing and will likely bury it in most cases for fear of retribution/donation from wealthy donors.
frat houses should not exist
I don't know why schools, even at the elementary level, tend to have internal policing rather than handling everything off to the actual police. Every subgroup (like a frat) becomes another level of legal obfuscation in this kind of environment.
a man grabbed one of them by the hair as the other picked the bathroom lock, according to the report.
I'm sorry they were carrying lockpicks with them? That is some next level prepared to defend your friends against rapists. These girls are heroes.
My not very nice opinion is that frat guys do not provide free alcohol just for socializing with women and discussing philosophy while drunk. If you're a woman and they're spending all this money on booze it's to get you drunk so they can have sex with you while drunk, aka rape you. That's the only reason. All this talk of relaxing, yeah that's for the guys, they'll spend money on booze among themselves so THEY can relax but they're not paying for your relaxation, they're paying to put you in a state where there's a chance one of them can rape you.
Frats themselves I think exist for that, sharing homework answers, and nepotistically giving their fellow former rapists jobs later in life as well as perpetuating an upper class hierarchy and caste system at universities. Big surprise they continue to exist under capitalism.
Do not go to rape houses. Tell your friends not to go to rape houses. Call them rape houses. Bully other guys and girls who want to go to rape houses by pointing out what they are. Paint the whole thing as the ugly monster it is. Abolish the frat aka rape house system.
I’m sorry they were carrying lockpicks with them? That is some next level prepared to defend your friends against rapists. These girls are heroes.
I was thinking they had a bobby pin on them, a lot of bathroom door handles have a small hole you can stick a pin in to unlock it in case someone is locked in. But it's kinda badass to picture them with a lockpicking set!
A lot of places I have lived have a bathroom door where the lock on the exterior can be trivially opened with a flathead screwdriver, or similar. It makes sense, because an internal lock like this doesn't need to be secure, just enough to ensure someone doesn't accidentally open it.
These guys are young, impressionable, and they see the president of their country getting away with sexual assault of minors. You can almost see the reasoning behind why they think this is okay.
It's fucking disgusting and they should be strung up and left as an example, but young affluent rapists seem to always get away with it. And they'll say it was partly her fault because she drank, she went to a party, she tried to have fun. Make it make sense.
My eye is twitching because I want to have a classic New Yorker "what is upstate New York" argument
Cornell is in the Finger Lakes region
US "ol boys" frat culture is actually part of the problem that has led to the US where it is today. The US needs serious post secondary reform, the influence of money and sexism on America is tragic. No other country in the world has this Frat system.
Yup. People in these frats later become judges, politicians and business leaders, just like their fathers. That's why they join them in the first place.
Honestly if I hear of someone that was in a frat at any point of their college/university schooling, I assume they're rapists as a best case scenario and much much worse in a worst case scenario.
The frat culture has been known for longer than I've been alive
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