Friday, December 5, 2014

Alcohol And/Or Fraternities Do Not Automatically Turn Possible Giant Douchebags Into Brutal Gang Rapists

The story as told in the Rolling Stone would have been one of the most heinous assaults in campus history.  A five or seven person gang rape at a university by well-known students at a famous fraternity house, with one of the perpetrators thanking the victim for a good time a day or two or three after?  That's not campus hijinks; that's not a brutal rape; that's an essentially unbelievable atrocity.  Anyone participating in it would not be your run of the mill ever present football-rapist but instead a sociopath needing to be shot dead in the street like a 12 year old blah boy.  Rich dumb douchebags, spoiled big men on campus, alcohol, privilege, college freedom, immaturity incubate all sorts of dangerous, regrettable, embarrassing, criminal, unfortunate situations, but there should not be enough booze or drugs on the fucking planet to turn half a dozen young men into gang rapists, even if any one of them would not be trustworthy or honorable or sane one on one.  UVA might not have the highest standards, but I have a hard time believing that a bunch of Phi Psi brothers would plan and commit a gang rape as described in the story.  Terrible shit happens and people do commit the most vile of crimes, so it not impossible that the rape happened just as described, but if it did, the people responsible should be tried, convicted, and sentenced to life without parole, because despite what some idiots might want to believe, gang rapes are not the main activities of men, college students, fraternity brothers, or universities. 

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