The end of the page that I wrote on June 30, 2016, called "Red Cups," was probably not the most sensitive thing that I have ever written. What I had meant it to do was to be a possible explanation of what seem to be some similarities between Jackie's description of being gang raped in 2012 at the Phi Kappa Psi house and Ms. Seccuro's description of being gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi house in 1984, which Ms. Seccuro wrote in the 2011 book "Crash Into Me."
I was specifically addressing those similarities in the parody at the end of the 6/30/16 page; it's a similarity by similarity refutation of the idea that what Jackie told Rolling Stone was a fabrication that Jackie plagiarized from Ms. Seccuro's book. It was also a parody about rapists and their attitudes, and not at all a joke about the victims.
If you read Ms. Seccuro's book and you read the Rolling Stone article, the descriptions of the assaults are only really similar in the ways that are the result of them having happened in the same house, perpetrated by people who were from the same organization. Other than that, those assaults were not alike.
Fraternities, and their hazing rituals, have a goal of making their members conform. Their attitudes and behaviors are deliberately indoctrinated from one year of pledges to the next. They call their members "brothers"; they try to make the people who are part of their groups as much like each other as they can.
What if Jackie was raped and then she read Ms. Seccuro's book? Jackie was only 18, and it took a year for her to feel that she was getting the support that she needed around having gotten raped. Wouldn't she have mentally attached to anything that gave a voice to what had happened to her? If some of the descriptive language is similar from the book to the article about the separate attacks, that could be why.
I also wrote at the 6/30/16 page that the conglomerate has deliberately plagiarized things that I write since 2010, distorting what I say AGAINST sexual abuse and using it for code to promote everything that I protest against. The conglomerate's plagiarism is vicious and harmful, not an unconscious response to trauma.
Copyright L. Kochman, July 2, 2016 @ 1:12 p.m.
