These are pictures of noncontiguous but sequential parts of Mr. Shapiro's January 8, 2016 article:
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Did Jackie buy Ryan's concert ticket and bus ticket before or after he started to text with "Haven Monahan"? There's no question that Ryan was planning to go on the trip with Jackie even while he was texting with Haven Monahan, because the transcripts of Ryan's texts with Jackie show that Ryan didn't try to break that date until after Jackie was assaulted at the Phi Kappa Psi house.
Accepting expensive gifts and planning to spend your birthday alone with someone in another city is Mr. Shapiro's idea of "politely rebuffing" someone?
Here's a hypothetical:
How would Mr. Shapiro suggest that a man politely rebuff a woman when the man and the woman are both wearing nothing other than their underwear and have been kissing for hours, and the woman wants sex but the man doesn't? It doesn't take a lot of thought, does it? The man puts on his clothes and leaves the room; if they're alone in a hotel room that she paid for, he doesn't even have to leave the room for the night. He can just tell her that he doesn't want to have sex, and because he's bigger and stronger than she is, he can sleep there right next to her for the rest of the night without having to worry that she'll have sex with him against his will.
That's what has never changed and will never change about men and women, and that's what everyone who wants to pretend that rape is only a question of "he said, she said" ignores. Rape is not only about sex and it's not only about power; fundamentally, it's about the abuse of physical power to get sex.
That's not what happened between Jackie and Ryan; what happened between Jackie and Ryan is that Ryan's lying, and so is Alex, and so is everyone else about whom Ms. Erdely has gotten crucified for not trying to contact before the Rolling Stone article was published. The people who got hurt because Ms. Erdely didn't talk to everyone before the article was published weren't all the people who were subsequently able to read the article and figure out what they wanted their lies to be.
Was the birthday trip the "one date" that was talked about by Ryan and Alex for their 20/20 interviews, or was it another date that was scheduled after Ryan's first date with Jackie? Ryan told 20/20 that he "went on one date" with Jackie and that he knew from that date that he didn't want to be romantically involved with her. Alex characterized the crying that Jackie did because Ryan wasn't attracted to her after the "one date" as abnormal for someone who has only known the person whom she likes "for a week."
One week? That's my question. The birthday trip wasn't scheduled for a time that was only one week after Jackie and Ryan had met. American colleges and universities start at the end of August and the beginning of September.
Was it because Mr. Duffin wanted to go to the concert, but not with a rape victim? Or did he go to the concert, and then reject her afterwards, and is that when Alex thought she was abnormal for crying?
I have never read anything that says whether or not Ryan went to the concert with Jackie. Did he? If so, I'm not surprised that Mr. Shapiro never mentioned it, that the Charlottesville Police Department never mentioned it, that the University of Virginia never mentioned it, and that no media source that has attacked the Rolling Stone article has ever mentioned it, as far as I know.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 22, 2016 @ 6:12 p.m.