How sexual abusers hide in plain sight: What Rolling Stone's blockbuster UVA rape exposé really tells us
Rolling Stone’s Nov. 19 investigative report “A Rape on Campus” is one of the best articles I wish I’d never had to read. And the rest of Sullivan’s posturing can’t help seeming deeply disingenuous in light of the portrait of her in “A Rape on Campus.” In it, she seems to suggest that having recently hosted the nation’s first-ever summit on sexual assault for college administrators equates with UVA itself being completely transparent about its own history of campus assaults. Yet, as Erdely notes, “her most frequently invoked answer to my specific questions about sexual-assault handling at UVA – while two other UVA staffers sat in on the recorded call – was ‘I don't know.’” Rolling Stone, as well as the students, faculty and alumni who have spoken out, describe the university and its top brass as being far less concerned with the safety and health of assault survivors than they are with the school’s reputation and funding — something that’s certainly not unique among institutions of higher learning. After all, the context in which we understand and talk about sexual consent has changed dramatically since 1969, when Bill Cosby joked about drugging women in comedy routines like “Spanish Fly.” It’s changed since the 1980s, when women at UVA told Erdely that no one used the term “rape” to describe what regularly happened in frat houses, instead employing a euphemism — “bad experience” — that survivors and administrators deploy to this day.
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