The Mattress Girl Saga

in October 2013 a petition was delivered to the Columbia University office of student services of gender-based misconduct the title nine coordinators for Columbia University and Barnard College the Columbia University office of equal opportunity and affirmative action the petitioners demand for the above-mentioned offices of Columbia University in Bonner College to disclose information on the number nature and judicial resolution of cases of sexual assault rape and gender-based misconduct and involve students of Columbia University in Barnard College the petition specifies that the Department of Justice reports and independent research have repeatedly estimated that approximately twenty to twenty five percent of women and four percent of men attending college are sexually assaulted during their years on campus additional research has led to even higher estimates for the LGBTQ population recent scandals at Amherst USC nacho DOM and Occidental have revealed the shocking failure of colleges and universities across the country to prevent assaults on campus or two fairly compassionately and promptly address the charges of sexual assault and rape which are reported to them the first thing that should jump out to you about these statistics is that they are not correct it is not true that one quarter of women on college campuses have been sexually assaulted indeed the actual Department of Justice statistics suggest that rape and sexual assault is actually lower on college campuses than it is in the cities surrounding them giving the figures seven point six per 1000 for non students and six point one per 1000 for students in December 2013 the blue and whites the monthly undergraduate magazine of Columbia University published an article called accessible prompt and equitable an examination of sexual assault at Columbia this piece examined the alleged sexual assaults of two different women with the identities of all of the participants protected by pseudonyms one of these is the account of Tom and Sarah who were friends with benefits and had already had consensual sex twice the pair were apparently at a party and at the end of the night they headed back to Sarah's room Sarah claims that minutes in Tom grabbed her wrists and pinned her arms behind her head he pushed her legs against her chest and forcefully penetrated her anus they had never had anal sex before they had never even discussed it it was painful sorrow but can't struggle screaming at him to stop yelling at him to get off her he didn't stop afterwards he laid next to her for a few seconds they didn't speak he abruptly got out of bed gathered his clothes and walked out of the door leaving a handle of vodka behind him apparently feeling distrustful of the police Sarah instead reported the incident to the University expecting that Tom would be expelled but according to Sarah's lawyer Columbia's concern with this public image resulted in a lack of transparency about policy meant to keep its students safe and undermined the University's commitment to fairness despite sarah's account of what really could be described as a brutal rape sarah never reported tom to the police or procured a rape kit she told a few close friends but otherwise kept it to herself the reason she gave for this was that going to the police or even talking with a therapist let alone filing a report of any kind was too emotionally exhausting to pursue Sarah was apparently suffering from a serious depression before meeting Tom and had recently ended an emotionally abusive relationship herself she would later wonder whether Tom had used her vulnerability to manipulate her her fragile state made the destructive and unhealthy physical relationship confusing at best Tom often forcefully pinned her arms back against the mattress during sex Nathalie the other woman featured in this article and allegedly the ex-girlfriend of Tom would cry during and after they slept together not until months after the breakup did Nathalie realized this as a non-consensual relationship Sarah claimed that she felt terrified for her peers after discovering that Tom had assaulted a second person I knew if no one punished him he would keep on raping women if I didn't report it he would keep harming people for the rest of his time on campus he had to be stopped that's why I decided to report it the two women father complaints Sarah on the 18th of April 2013 and a non-consensual sexual intercourse and Nathalie on April 25th 2013 under intimate partner violence and non-consensual sexual intercourse and the University began its investigation the investigation into Natalie's accusation ended within two weeks with the university stating that there was not sufficient information available to indicate that a reasonable suspicion exists to believe a policy violation occurred Sara's case took seven months and Tom was found not responsible on the 8th of November 2013 Sara's real name is Emma salka whit's who was an art student at Columbia University and she had made her allegations against a foreign national architecture student from Germany called Paul nan gasser and really this is where the story should have ended it appears that false allegations were filed against Paul Nungesser there was not enough evidence to substantiate to these allegations and indeed later on we would find evidence that would outright disprove them and so no further action should have been taken because Paul should have been presumed to be innocent as he indeed was by Columbia University however by April of 2016 feminist activists had been agitating for increased control and transparency over the sexual assault policies of Columbia University during the no red tape protests at days on campus these protestors stood in solidarity with their feminist sister Emma Sol Kuwait's with red tape over their mouths in protest over Columbia's sexual assault education and prevention programs support services disciplinary policies and the actions of administrators this coincided with an initiative by a u.s. senator and feminist activist Kirsten Gillibrand who is seeking funds to fight college campus sex assaults Gillibrand and Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri released a joint bipartisan letter Friday to the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on labor Health Human Services and education asking for money to investigate and enforce sexual assault laws at colleges and universities speaking at Columbia University Gillibrand pointed to a combination of underfunding and poor staff training at schools across the country and asked for 100 million dollars in federal funding to boost enforcement of current laws this was reported on by CBS New York and to give this case extra weight they interviewed Emma Sol Kuwait's who apparently claimed that Columbia University dismissed her case without hearing her and that this is why she understands why so few survivors come forward I'm loathe to say that salka wits is lying but this is not true the university did not simply dismiss them there was an investigation and Nungesser was found innocent this marked the beginning of Emma soul quits his fame as a feminist victim icon as her story was picked up on and widely circulated by mainstream media outlets such as this example from the New York Times which helped fuel an unfounded wave of feminist hysteria about rape and sexual assault on college campuses the article begins by centering itself around Emma Sol quits his claims recounting them in detail then contextualizes it by pointing out that these claims are increasingly common at universities across the country interestingly they point out that a new network of activists makes shrewd use of the law and the media in an attempt to step up pressure on colleges these are networks of feminist activists although the article omits that information however the article does include that there is quote scant evidence that sexual assault is more or less prevalent than in the past or how Columbia compares with others but the storm of attention has forced the university administrators to pay more attention to a largely unfamiliar set of duties more akin to social work and criminal justice than to education put simply what the New York Times is saying here is that there is no evidence that there is a significant problem with sexual assaults on university campuses in America indeed the Bureau of Justice Statistics would indicate that university campuses are actually safer than their surrounding cities when it comes to the issue of sexual assault so it would make the attempt by Senator Gillibrand and her network of feminist activists to influence or outright control the policies of universities in this regard rather unjustified especially when the primary example of this being used is the false claim of M assault Kuwait's the New York Times explains that the contention comes from compliance with federal rules title 9 of the education amendments of 1972 states that no person shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination in an educational program supported by the federal government the feminist interpretation of this is that universities have increasingly been told that this means that they are required to protect students from sexual harassment and assault in 2011 the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights sent a letter to colleges putting them on notice that it saw many of the mishandling sexual assault cases and that it would use a new stricter interpretation of their duties under title 9 the article continues to weave elements of an assault quitsies story with the information on title nine to show why this is necessary and then state that salka which has channeled some of her frustration into action appearing with Senator Gillibrand last month to speak out and joining in the federal complaint against Columbia this would see the beginning of something of an informal public partnership between sulk wits and Gillibrand with sulky wits wishing to have a platform with which to project her story and Gillibrand wishing to use her as the example of a young lady who's been wronged by universities as an example of why they should change the article concludes by saying that they are following a well-worn path the activists at Columbia have been advised by counterparts from around the country over the last few years they have formed a national network of current and former students spreading from campus to campus what they have learned about drafting complaints dealing with administrators and appealing to the media and they have disproportionately targeted prestigious universities where allegations draw the most attention for some advocacy has become all but a full-time job ending the article with the words of a feminist activist called Donna Bolger we've hit them where it hurts their reputations so what has happened so far there's been a false claim backed up with false statistics and a media smear campaign against the university drafting in political figures with an interest in this subject and networks of feminist activists to gain influence over interpretation of the particular law and implement stricter policies creating increased ideological control for feminism and the only justification for any this happening is feminism itself without a feminist making a false claim without feminists providing false statistics on one in four women being sexually assaulted at campuses without feminists in the media wishing to participate in this campaign and give salka wits a platform and without feminist politicians like senator Gillibrand actively pushing this and without organized networks of semi-professional feminist activists creating the appearance of a grassroots movement there would be no one to gain undue influence over the interpretation of title nine and there would be no need to implement stricter policies and there would be no further ideological control of feminism over universities but simply the feminist hysteria over rapes on college campuses is completely unjustified and the only reason that this is happening is the self-interest of the feminist activists involved at every level and most importantly of all this is all built on lies two weeks after the New York Times article it was reported that as Columbia University groups of vigilantes were scrolling the names of accused rapists in the girls bathrooms which the university was found to have scrubbed off among the names on these lists was Paul Nungesser the alleged rapist of Emma salka wits who was cleared by the University this story was picked up by New York Magazine who published an article called after police report Columbia Spectator publishes named from campus rape list in this article they interview Emma Sol Kuwait's who appears to admit to being the person behind the graffiti she said one of my main goals was to have his name somewhere so if he committed another crime in New York City it would show up on his record so the next person he might assault would have a best time than I did in prosecuting him I felt like I had a civil and public duty to report as well she informs us that she was in the process of filing a formal complaint with a New York Police Department nearly two years after the incident is alleged to have occurred and complaints that the officer basically treated me as if I was the criminal police informed her that they were currently looking for Paul Nungesser who was out of the country and had returned to Germany temporarily nothing came of the complaint presumably through lack of evidence approximately four months later Emma salka wits began her performance art piece entitled mattress performance or carry that weight for as long as her alleged rapist goes to Colombia and the soul quits intends to carry around a dorm room mattress wherever she goes so cool it's decided to choose this performance piece for her visual arts senior thesis one of the rules of the piece is that I'm not allowed to ask for help I've been carrying a mattress but others are allowed to give me help if they come up and offer it so I'm hoping that not only do I get better at carrying the mattress but other people will learn about the peace I don't know I mean I I'm not hoping that everyone comes and helps but I think I'm very interested in seeing where this piece goes and what sort of life it takes on and indeed this piece did end up going a very long way and taking on a very interesting life the very next day The Huffington Post reported on this arts project and called Paul Nungesser a rapist in the title of their article this story was so widely circulated msl quits ended up being interviewed by melissa harris-perry on MSNBC and amongst the widespread reporting on progressive media was this puff piece on the New York Times calling a muscle quit say typically messianic artists despite reporting that Paulin gues was found innocent by the university and that emma sole quits failed to follow through with her police report in May the tone of the article proceeds as if a muscle quits is telling the truth the author says it is so simple a woman with a mattress refusing to keep her violation private carrying with her a stark reminder of what took place while in the previous paragraph praising carry that weight and stating that it will set a very high standard for any future work she will do as an artist and will also earn her a niche in the history of intensely personal yet aggressively political performance art and this is the point at which anisole quits his star as a feminist artists really began to rise two days after she had begun mattress performance arts netcom was calling it one of the most important artworks of the year and by december vultured calm had named it number one of the nineteen best art shows of 2014 describing mattress performance as a peace that comes from righteous indignation messianic rage and the drive for justice and the Brooklyn Museum Center for feminist art hosted an hour-long interview with Emma Saul quits on the subject of the performance and naturally the question was raised as to whether the mattress itself would wind up in a muse with soul quotes telling the times if some sort of museum wants to buy it then I'm open to that but I'm not just going to throw it away and Catherine Morris the curator of Brooklyn museum's Sackler Center for feminist arts saying I can definitely imagine it having a future what makes her work so interesting and viable for the long term is its immediacy while all of this was going on and the soul quits found herself as the inspiration for a feminist protest movement based on her performance throughout September and October of 2014 hundreds if not thousands of feminist students protested at hundreds of universities across the United States carrying their own mattresses throughout the campus as a statement of solidarity soul quits acted as a de facto leader of this movement by setting a Peron website called carry that weight and helping to organize a day of action through an email list in January of 2015 senator Gillibrand invited Anna sulcus to speak at the State of the Union address about her experiences and about her project with the New York Daily News reporting that Saul quit said sometimes it takes a federal hand to make colleges listen Gillibrand had invited sulkus to the speech in an effort to highlight a bipartisan bill that would force colleges to step up collection of information on sexual assaults and adopt tougher standardized processes for dealing with sexual assault this was an advancement of her mission to increase the strictness of the interpretation of the title nine laws despite Paul Nungesser being found innocent of the charges Gillibrand called salka wits a woman of great courage who got no justice and of course by this point sulker wits had vastly expanded the reach of her mattress performance project she says the piece I am doing is not just based on Columbia it's based on all survivors experiences at every college so I hope that when people think of my art piece they don't just think of it as a Columbia piece so coitus performance piece had taken on a symbolic aspect in feminist law by May 25 Dean it was referenced in a commencement speech by UN Ambassador Samantha power saying that it takes a woman picking up a mattress and carrying it around her campus to make people really see it a mattress that a good number of women in this graduating class have helped carry and men from Columbia to speaking of men from Columbia University let's take a look at what Paul Nungesser had been doing during this time nagisa had also had media coverage although it was far less frequent and finding positive pieces from his perspective was far more difficult on the 24th of October 2014 while Emma Saltcoats was currently rising to prominence as a performance artist and protester The Observer published an article that was based on an interview with Paul no guesses lawyer who criticized Emma's soul Kuwait's he said while drawing attention to the important issue of campus rape she's clearly enjoying the celebrity she's created through the perverse spectacle of carrying her mattress around campus but the attendant media frenzy has seemingly legitimized an event which after an investigation and a hearing the university determined did not occur and which the NYPD has thus far declined to pursue what has clearly been lost in all of this is that she has achieved this celebrity status through a systematic campaign of publicly defaming and destroying the life of a young man it's absolutely mind-boggling to me that Columbia has sanctioned her conduct by giving her course credits all after finding that the young man was not guilty needless to say politicians feminist activists and their cohorts in the media had made porn and guesses life a living hell despite the fact that he was free to operate on Columbia University and was officially under no allegations they pushed the story that he was guilty the details of which Paul Nungesser was able to expand upon in an interview with the New York Times almost five months after the story of mattress girl had gone viral he has gotten used to former friends crossing the street to avoid him he has even gotten used to being denounced as a rapist on fliers and in a at the university's quadrangle though his name is not widely known beyond Morningside Heights campus mr. nan gasser is one of America's most notorious college students his reputation precedes him he says he is innocent and that the same University that found him not responsible has now abdicated its own responsibility letting mob justice overrule its official procedures the mattress project is not an act of free expression it is an act of bullying a very public very personal and very painful attack designed to hound him out of Columbia and it is being conducted with the university's active support there is a member of the faculty that is supervising this he said this is part of her graduation requirement Nungesser said the charges filed against him all filed within days of one another with a result of collusion three women said in interviews with the New York Times that they decided to take action when they heard about one another's experiences everything he has said here is true this is a campaign designed to hound him out of Columbia the very premise of the art project was to carry the mattress until he had been expelled despite being found innocent the media had picked up on this campaign as had senator Gillibrand and perpetuated it as if it was true that he had raped this woman and had gotten away with it this is not a narrative supported by evidence what is interesting is that nan gasser was not allowed to bring up certain forms of proof such as communication between himself and salka wits after the night in question then guesser claims that this is evidence that the university's procedure was biased against him after senator Gillibrand had invited Emma sulcus to speak at the State of the Union address Nungesser said I am shocked to learn that Senator Gillibrand is actively supporting miss sole coitus defamation campaign against me by providing her with a public forum in which to broadcast her grave allegation by doing so senator Gillibrand is participating in a harassment campaign against someone who for good reason has been found innocent by all investigating bodies on the 3rd of February fifteen The Daily Beast published an expose by Cathy young detailing after seeing the social media interaction between them how she believed he was not guilty the piece details how they had a close friendship and intimate relationship that was on occasion sexual Nungesser provided The Daily Beast with Facebook messages with Sol quits from August September and October 2012 and an email to The Daily Beast Sol quits confirmed that these records were authentic and not redacted in any way while she initially offered to provide annotations explaining the context on the messages she then emailed again said that she would not be sending them in response to Kathy Young's accurate reporting for The Daily Beast and the salka whit's was interviewed by Mike calm in an article called the treatment of Emma Sol quits proves we still have no idea how to talk about rape song quits describes Kathy Young's investigation and email correspondence with her as some kind of anti-feminist campaign she says I didn't realize she's extremely anti-feminist and would do this in order to shame me and suggest that Kathy young has written other articles supporting the rapists and making survivors look unreliable it is a mess all quitsies refusal to address the content of the Facebook messages provided by Pollan Gesser that demonstrate that she is willfully lying and there can be no doubt that muncom is facilitating this for a reason Mike calm decide to defend a missile quits by saying there is no perfect victim and then they proceeded to obfuscate the content of the Facebook messages by suggesting that it was common for abused people to have had intimate friendships and relationships with their abusers despite the fact that Mike calm keeps referring to Nungesser as the alleged rapist they declare categorically that Emma Sol Kuwait's is a survivor this means there must have been something for her to survive this is them confirming that they believe Nungesser was a rapist and that Emma Sol Kuwait's is telling the truth despite the content of their facebook messages we know this because the full content of their Facebook interactions was published after Paul Nungesser decided that he was going to sue Columbia University over bias Nungesser filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the school its president Lisi Bollinger and one of its professors by refusing to protect Paul Nungesser Columbia University first became a silent bystander then turned into an active supporter of a fellow students harassment campaign by institutionalizing it and heralding it the lawsuit also alleges that John Kessler the professor who's named as defendant not only approved the project but also publicly endorsed her harassment and defamation of mr. nan gasser she is actively earning course credit from Columbia for this outrageous display of harassment and defamation the lawsuit says Paul's legal rights are being violated and that his well-being and future prospects are suffering immensely which indeed they were the interactions between Paul Nungesser and Emma salka wits were featured extensively in the lawsuit and these interactions definitively prove none guesses innocence the conversations demonstrate Nungesser and sulk awaits his relationship as friends with them in this image discussing one of sulker wits as boyfriends they have long and intimate conversations in which sulk which tells them guess so that he should feel proud of being a good guy at one point Saul quits outright states fuck me in the butt and Paul replies m-maybe not joke I miss your face though to which she replies hahahaha don't you miss my lopsided ass to which he replies I do just not that much the lawsuit details how they were friends with benefits while they were still at Columbia they had platonic sleepovers and had sex on two separate occasions on the second occasion Emma had asked Paul to engage in anal sex with her Paul had stated he had no experience with it Emma said she had enjoyed it in the past with other men and wanted him to proceed the two engaged in anal sex as part of their foreplay then they progressed on to vaginal intercourse following their sexual encounters on both occasions the two discussed their relationship both times they can cluded that they would remain primarily as friends and they would not enter into a monogamous romantic relationship an important factor in the decision was that Emma had previously been having sex with Paul's close friend John Doe despite broaching the topic of anal sex with Paul am elated denied doing so mm her further communicated to Paul stories and allegations of sexual abuse that she had experienced from other sexual partners she stated I've officially had sex with all of john doe's best friends did lots of drugs joke just got very drunk well anyways and now I have an STD I actually hate John Doe like if a girl is about to puke don't put your unprotected dick into her I really don't want to be known as the girl who contracted an STD because she was drunk you know it is more his fault for fucking me unconscious I mean I was conscious but clearly not in my right mind I was literally blackout I puked all over the place to console her about having an STD Paul invited her to Berlin and also message Paul frequently from throughout the summer with messages including love you miss and love you by the way Paul I really miss you I really miss you Paul I love you so much please stay with me forever Paul I miss you so much like you know when you tell people you miss them and you don't really mean it I actually mean it I miss you so much ah Pookie I miss you I love you so much I miss you more than anything I love you and I would love to have you here oh my god we could snuggle Paul I missed you Paul I miss you I miss you Paul dude I miss you so much I love you Paul exclamation marks these messages spanned from May 2012 through August of 2012 and similar messages continued until October 2012 when Paul messaged Emma to say that he'd been seeing a woman while abroad and the typed are you guys in love Paul responded yes eat I'm sad well I don't know I mean it's not gonna last Emma asked are you guys a thing and Paul responded with it was more like a summer fling if you know what I mean on August the 21st 2012 just prior to the return to Columbia campus for sophomore year Emma wrote to Paul I want to snuggle with you and talk about our summers but not right now I also love you on August the 27th 2012 on the first night back at Columbia campus the sophomore sexual encounter Emma invited Paul to her room once again they engaged in consents Saxon Emma's bed the sophomore sexual encounter involved vaginal and anal sex followed by oral intercourse this is the alleged rape two days later on August the 29th 2012 Paul Facebook messaged Emma to invite her to a gathering in his room she messaged back lawl yes also I feel like we need to have some real time where we can talk about life and things because we haven't really had a Paul Emma chill sesh since summer her alleged rapist responded when you guys coming through and we wrote back to her alleged rapist I'll probably come about 10:45 is that cool her alleged rapist wrote back sweet yeah you at the fencing thing to which she replied yeah I'm just gonna chill with them for a bit haha is a DP a rager Paul wrote back nah nah it's a little too many guys right now haha sir Brinks peeps Emma wrote back to her alleged rapist okay let them know I'll be there with the female spawn at 11:06 p.m. she messaged Paul saying akka people still there heading over now this is two days after she claims that she was raped two weeks later on September the 9th 2012 Emma messaged Paul I want to see uuuuu thereafter Paul sent Emma a happy birthday message as follows to which Emma responded I love you Paul where are you the lawsuit details how Emma's efforts for affection from Paul go unreciprocated as evident from Emma's Facebook messages to Paul during the summer prior to their sophomore year Emma's yearning for Paul had become very intense and were repeatedly message Paul throughout that summer saying that she loved and missed him she was quick to inquire whether he was in love with the woman he was seeing abroad thereafter she continued pursuing him reiterating that she loved him however when Paul did not reciprocate these intense feelings and instead showed interest in dating other women emma became viciously angry and this brings us to the course of events that began this video so Lewis would then claim that in an interview with Vice magazine the term fuck me in the butt was taken totally out of context and that the phrase was an idiom they used to mean oh my god that's so annoying I'm happy to accept that this may well be true but she had nope it addresses why she pursued her alleged rapist long after the rape had apparently occurred nor as to why she failed to report it to the university authorities or the police until almost a year had passed on the 19th of May 2015 it was reported that an email had been sent around the school to the students to inform them that they would not be allowed to bring large objects to the graduation ceremony and they would have to be left nearby and collected afterwards this was obviously a direct message to Emma salka wits and her supporters not to bring the mattress to the graduation but of course they did so anyway and the university did nothing to stop them you can see the procession of students carrying in the mattress with Emma soul quits to graduate during the graduation ceremony the president of the university is meant to shake each student's hand to congratulate them on graduating so needless to say when the Columbia president refused to shake Emma soul quits his hand it was mildly controversial it's alleged by salka wits and her supporters that the president who had been shaking the students hands turned his back and leaned down as though to pick something up from his seat silca wits leaned over with the mattress trying to catch his eye then straightened up and kept walking shrugging with her free hand I even tried to smile at him or look him in the eye and he completely turned away that was so surprising because I thought he was supposed to shake all of our hands now while you might be thinking well good for him for at least standing for something it seems that this may have been a miscommunication the alternative version of this set of events is that as thousands of people saw in person and the video of the event illustrates the students who chose to carry the mattress in their hands marched right past Dean Valentini and president Bollinger rather than pausing for the traditional handshakes with either cut the college dean or the university president that is their right but the idea that there was any intended snub is incorrect and does not ring true to anyone who knows the president Bollinger and his graciousness the day after the graduation it was reported that a friend of Emma's all coeds had accused Pullman of assaulting him as well according to Adam during the conversation he had with him Nungesser asked him to sit on the bed rub his shoulders and back and then gently pushed him down and proceeded to stroke his leg and finally massage his crotch for approximately two three minutes while Adam frozen shocked he was finally able to muster the will to get up and leave the investigators report noted numerous contradictions in Adams account as well as its drastic discrepancy with the facebook record none guesses account on the other hand was not only consistent but matched by cooperative evidence this appears to have been another lie another false allegation of sexual assault levelled at a man who has been dogged by a group of people consistently levelling false accusations of sexual assault at him it seems that there is a pattern of malicious behavior from this group of friends and it seems to stem from the fact that Paul Nungesser did not want a relationship with emma sulk awaits given the high profile of the case and the categoric nature of the evidence against Emma Sol quits his accusations and the fact that she had never been brought to justice for her false allegations all the allegations of her friends that she seems to have organized against Nungesser combined with the highly politicized nature of the feminist activism being performed using this fraudulent case as a basis it should come as no surprise that concerned members of the public felt the need to get involved an unknown member of the public created a Twitter account called fake rape and using a picture of Emma Sol quoits proceeded to post various images of posters that had been put up around Columbia and posted these pictures to hashtags used to communicate about this case the posters featured an image of Emma Sol quits carrying her mattress with the words pretty little liar overlaid on top the same has also done to lena dunham after she had alleged she had been raped by a republican who it turned out did not exist needless to say these posts caused quite a lot of controversy and received a great deal of media attention provoking one of Nan guesses accusers to pen an article on jezebel.com entitled I am NOT a pretty little liar the anonymous author doubles down on the allegations that they made claiming that they were just trying to do the right thing they claim that the characterization that pins them as being a friend of mattress girl is not true she's friendly with Emma Saltcoats but not friends per se but this is the point I find most interesting since then I spent so much time and energy just trying to hold on to my narrative and my truth without making a demonstration out of it this is a really interesting way of phrasing things because the truth appears to be that Paul Nungesser did not sexually assault anyone and he was the victim of a malicious smear campaign of false allegations that was picked up by the media in order to run him out of Columbia University and destroy his career and prospects for someone to then say well my truth is different is them as far as I can tell deliberately buying into their own lies because that way they presumably don't have to feel like a liar the end by saying but even if you don't believe me I don't care I didn't report him for you I reported him because it was the right thing to do and if I've protected even one person from him it's been worth it two weeks after the pretty little liar poster campaign it seems that Emma Saul quits tried to strike back and reassert her narrative of the events in what was termed a troubling video performance the project which was titled this is not a rape a reference to Margaret's the treachery of images was presented on a website with profit or e-text which warned the visitor the following text contains allusions to rape everything that takes place in the following video is consensual but may resemble rape salka which says this is not a rape is not about one night in August 2012 it's about your decisions Starr now it's only a reenactment if you disregard my words it's about you and not him you might be wondering why I've made myself this vulnerable look I want to change the world and that begins with you seeing yourself if you watch this video without my consent then I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape for in that case you were the one who couldn't resist the urge to make this is not a rape about what you wanted to make it about rape the video which was uploaded to pornhub after the website was taken down with a DDoS attack shows Emma Saul quits and an unknown man allegedly re-enacting Emma Seoul quits his story of events complete with nudity and penetrative sex although Seoul Kuwait's wanted it to become a commentary on the people watching it in an attempt to guilt-trip them into feeling like accessories to her rape it did nothing to reassure people that these were the actions of a legitimate victim of rape and reinforced in the minds of many onlookers that a moussaka which was in fact lying and looking for attention salka wits continued her artistic career but found it difficult to move beyond of the title mattress girl that she had earned for herself with the carry that weight performance in February of 2016 she tried to move beyond the title of a mattress girl as reported favorably by the LA Times no mattresses are in sight only sulky wits and an uncannily lifelike sculpture of her Emmet Ron standing on matching white pedestals empty pedestals are placed before the artist and artwork visitors are invited to step up and talk with them you may speak to salka wits about anything you like but if you stray into mattress territory she will direct you to Emmet Ron who speaks through an iPad app loaded with preset questions and answers of which Saul quits has grown tired on the 24th of June 2016 the national organization of women gave Emma soul quits the woman of courage award at its 2016 for word feminism conference I think this is absolutely proof positive that feminist narratives surrounding a missile Kuwait's had diverged so significantly from reality that it no longer bore any resemblance it doesn't matter how often a missile quits claims that she was raped her own words demonstrate that she was in fact in love with Paul did not think he had raped her at the time and she appears to have leveled these accusations after their relationship had broken down but now a missile quits his mattress performance having been embraced by feminists far and wide as an example of the injustice is done to poor young women on college campuses are all in the same boat where they have to accept her word as the god-given truth regardless of the actual evidence that comes to light this is an effect a mass delusion among feminists in which they all must partake or the illusion is shattered and the soul quits is feminist arts career kept going from strength to strength holding bizarre and esoteric performance pieces that doubtless have some deep meaning to those involved while researching this video I had to investigate these art pieces for myself I personally found them not for me in fact I can't really see the artistic merit in what is going on here but I'm not a hipster art connoisseur and so I am really not the intended audience the latest example of which was from the 25th of May 2017 in which Emma Saul quits is tied up and whipped by an old man again not a piece that was successful and persuading the public at large that she is actually a rape victim and not someone who is desperately seeking attention and attempting to satisfy her own sexual fetishes she explains this by saying what good is art hung on the wall of a sinking ship if our country has fallen to pieces and you have artists running around and saying their political artists but really that art is hanging on a sinking ship the ship is still sinking I was thinking a lot about this is it really possible for political artists to make work that makes a ship from sinking the answer is whatever I'm making work about that question the answer in reality is no she explains it in greater detail in another interview with arts nads lately I've been reading this book masochism coldness and cruelty by gills Deleuze he talks about how the Marquis de Sade had a whole system of sadism and Leopold von Sock'em a sock had a whole system of masochism and they're very separate the perfect sadist is the man who finds unwilling victims and rapes and tortures him in Masek system it's actually about a man finding a woman who's willing to torture him so it's actually consensual so where the sadistic system is patriarchal the masochistic system is actually matriarchal it's really easy to jump on board with a masochistic system but the protagonist is still the man what about a consensual system with a female protagonist it would look the same as a sadistic system like a man torturing a woman but it would be based on consent sulker wits is misunderstanding of the terms patriarchal and matriarchal notwithstanding I will leave this to your own judgement but finally returning to Paul Nungesser his lawsuit against Columbia University was successful and they decided to settle with him the settlement comes more than three months after a judge threw out the lawsuit in which he alleged that Columbia contributed to sulk words his efforts against him in a way that discriminated against him because he is a male a judge dismissed the case but he appealed on July the 7th both parties filed to withdraw the case and they announced the settlement on Thursday although we are not told the details of the settlement in a statement Columbia said that it recognizes after the conclusion of the sexual misconduct investigation Paul's remaining time at Columbia became very difficult for him and not what's Columbia would want any of its students to experience Columbia will continue to review and update its policies towards ensuring that every student accuser and accused including those like Paul who were found not responsible is treated respectfully and as a full member of the Columbia community now Guess's parents said we are truly happy regarding this settlement we fought for almost four years for a statement like the one Columbia released it gives Paul a chance to recover from the false accusations against him we hope that the resolution of the case also ensures that no student will ever have to endure what Paul went through after he was exonerated Emma soul quits his accusations against Paul Nungesser are a classic archetype of a female revenge story and this was bought into and supported by feminists in the media in politics and presumably in the university itself as well as activists and various commentators across the Internet this should serve as a warning to believe in people without evidence and rescinding the presumption of innocence of the people accused Paul ninh guesses life was turned into a living hell his friends abandoned him and he was treated like a pariah on the word of a few women who wanted to destroy him because he rejected one of them this is why you must not simply listen and believe [Music]

Channel: Sargon of Akkad

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Keywords: interesting, funny, comedy, hilarious, current events, politics

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Length: 47min 21sec (2841 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 06 2017