{"id":36260,"date":"2016-11-07T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36260"},"modified":"2016-11-06T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:59:55","slug":"rolling-stone-and-the-nicole-eramo-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/rolling-stone-and-the-nicole-eramo-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone<\/em> and the Nicole Eramo lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jury decided that Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine and the writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely did defame University of Virginia associate dean Nicole Eramo. Tim Newman<\/a> comments on the (to him, satisfying) outcome of the case:<\/p>\n

As soon as that story was published it got torn apart on the internet. Crucially, those tearing it apart were not just the red pill\/manosphere\/PUA sites either. Plenty of moderate, mainstream sites cast serious doubts on the story and I read a few of them.<\/p>\n

Common sense would have told you there was something seriously amiss. From memory, \u201cJackie\u201d recounts being thrown onto a glass-topped coffee table so hard that it shattered beneath her and then raped where she lay. You don\u2019t need to be a practicing rapist to know that any guy who did that would be risking serious injury to himself: there are arguments over the involuntary circumcision of males, but I don\u2019t think they cover rapists going about their business in lakes of shattered glass. She would also have sustained major damage had she been subject to those levels of violence: lacerations, fractures, bruising which she could have shown to the police and would have needed hospital treatment.<\/p>\n

It was bullshit, but that wasn\u2019t what made people angry. Lots of stories in the media are bullshit and nobody cares. So what made this one different? It was because those who supposedly supported \u201cJackie\u2019s\u201d version of events and abused those who questioned it wanted<\/em> it to be true. For them, it was a better outcome that she had really been raped than for the story to have been fabricated.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So have they learned their lesson? It would appear not:<\/p>\n