# I pit the rape culture at the University of Virginia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 24, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515 "2014-11-24T20:01:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515/281 "2015-04-12T03:01:54Z")

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> [@Haberdash](#):
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> Possible THIRD rape story with portions fabricated by Erdely. This is a right-wing website so don’t just trust it blindly, but it raises the issue.
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> [http://www.redstate.com/2015/04/07/sabrina-rubin-erdelys-possibly-fake-rape-story/](http://www.redstate.com/2015/04/07/sabrina-rubin-erdelys-possibly-fake-rape-story/)

Looks pretty factual to me. My liberal cred is pretty good, and I see no bias in this article.

False rape allegations are just so corrosive to society and gender relations.

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**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515/282 "2015-04-12T10:34:05Z")

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Unlike [actual gang rape](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/troy-university-students-charged-spring-break-gang-rape-article-1.2181244).

Fucking rapist.

Rot in hell

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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515/283 "2015-04-12T13:32:34Z")

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> [@get\_lives](#):
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> Looks pretty factual to me. My liberal cred is pretty good, and I see no bias in this article.
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> False rape allegations are just so corrosive to society and gender relations.

And, this is why this author needs to be fired. Maybe this other story IS actually factual. But, the fact that I know that the author went out of her way to try to make another story seem factual means I immediately suspect every single story she has written.

In other words, had a different author written this article, I would probably believe it. This author? I don’t believe a word of it.

She has single person stories, with no corroboration, on a single mom doing heroin and a single mom prostitute that read very similar. They sure might be true, had they been written by an honest author. But, from this one? I don’t believe a word of them.

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**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-rape-culture-at-the-university-of-virginia/705515/284 "2015-04-12T16:37:24Z")

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> [@Fiveyearlurker](#):
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> I don’t believe a word of them.

That’s exactly how I feel about 99.9% of all reporting, on almost everything.

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