I did a search of the term "brown university sued." The first page of Google search results is dominated by articles about a male student who was accused of sexual assault and who is suing the school and suing his accuser.
That's a picture of part of the article that corresponds with the first result.
That's the Web address for the article.
That's the Web address for a 2010 New York Times article about a male, former student who sued Brown University for being accused of rape.
That's a picture of the first part of that article.
If the media sources who have contributed to the discrediting of the Rolling Stone article have specifically described the backgrounds of the people who Jackie accused of raping her or who are otherwise arrayed against Jackie, Erdely and Rolling Stone, those media sources have not made those descriptions prominent in their articles or broadcasts. In this article from 2010, the first sentence talks about the power of that rape accuser.
At the least, this implies that female students whose families have wealth and power are much more successful at having their concerns about what happens to them taken seriously than are women whose families don't have that wealth or power. At worst, it implies that the media routinely ignores correlations between male students being exonerated of accusations of rape and how much money and power their families have.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, February 14, 2016 @ 2:27 p.m.
