Today In Rape Culture
By We go to Los Angeles for today’s edition:
The University of Southern California is facing a federal civil rights investigation after students filed a complaint that alleged the school ignored campus rape and failed to prosecute attackers even after they confessed.
One anonymous USC student involved in the complaint said that campus police had decided she wasn’t raped because her alleged attacker did not orgasm, the Huffington Post reported Monday.
“Because he stopped, it was not rape,” she was told, per the complaint. “Even though his penis penetrated your vagina, because he stopped, it was not a crime.”
The campus police did not refer the student’s case to the Los Angeles police department.
Another student, according to the complaint, was told by the university Department of Public Safety that women should not “go out, get drunk and expect not to get raped” when she tried to report a rape.
What can you even say?