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University of Wyoming student fakes her own rape threat on Facebook.

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Mumei

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Attention-seeking combined with a burning desire to be able to point to something personal that supports her team's argument.

See also: backwards B girl, that hate crime hoax girl from a few years ago, etc.

Backwards-B girl will always be my favorite.

I don't know about you guys but I really want to hatefuck Chris Matthews

You have terrible taste in men.
 

Fivefold

Banned
This is the kind of fucktard that sets back years of progress.

Watch this become a holy grail of MRA apologists like the Duke Lacrosse case.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Maybe she made up a fake husband to hate-marry her.
He looks pretty real to me :p

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2013/05/01/news/doc51808a142d4e0194745034.prt

doc51808a142d4e0194745034.jpg

University of Wyoming student Meg Lanker-Simons speaks Monday with her husband Andrew at her side
during a demonstration organized to protest sexual violence and rhetoric near the student union.
PETER BAUMAN/Boomerang staff​


I bet he's mighty proud.


I dunno, seems like an amateur to me. :p
Good enough to be on Think Progresses "Golden Thinkr" honoree list, though. (I haven't read her blog other than the pages I posted, so I dunno)

http://think-progress.tumblr.com/post/24424887435/announcing-the-2012-thinkprogress-tumblr-honorees
 

Bombadil

Banned
He looks pretty real to me :p

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2013/05/01/news/doc51808a142d4e0194745034.prt

doc51808a142d4e0194745034.jpg

University of Wyoming student Meg Lanker-Simons speaks Monday with her husband Andrew at her side
during a demonstration organized to protest sexual violence and rhetoric near the student union.
PETER BAUMAN/Boomerang staff​


I bet he's mighty proud.



Good enough to be on Think Progresses "Golden Thinkr" honoree list, though. (I haven't read her blog other than the pages I posted, so I dunno)

http://think-progress.tumblr.com/post/24424887435/announcing-the-2012-thinkprogress-tumblr-honorees

He looks like he'd rather be anywhere but there.
 
He looks pretty real to me :p

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2013/05/01/news/doc51808a142d4e0194745034.prt

doc51808a142d4e0194745034.jpg

University of Wyoming student Meg Lanker-Simons speaks Monday with her husband Andrew at her side
during a demonstration organized to protest sexual violence and rhetoric near the student union.
PETER BAUMAN/Boomerang staff​


I bet he's mighty proud.



Good enough to be on Think Progresses "Golden Thinkr" honoree list, though. (I haven't read her blog other than the pages I posted, so I dunno)

http://think-progress.tumblr.com/post/24424887435/announcing-the-2012-thinkprogress-tumblr-honorees
It looks like he's thinking "Oh God why did I drink that goddamn night... I could have avoided meeting her... I didn't know things would go like this."
 

Sye d'Burns

Member
Sounds like something a Republican would say about homosexuality.

It sounds like something a Democrat would think a Republican would say. Heck, they might even go so far as to file a police report framing a fictitious Republican for that very thing.

"hatefuck" is such a juvenile term.

I agree. I think the way the KOWB article phrases it is much more refined.

An anonymous statement posted to the UW Crushes Facebook page last week caused a controversy. The post stated that the author would like to copulate with Lanker-Simons in an angry manner. At the time, Lanker-Simons came out publicly against the post saying that she had felt threatened by it and perceived the post as a rape-threat.

 

Gannd

Banned
She is 26 and an undergraduate? What the hell is she doing in school? I think they should tell her to stop being an activist and get to class. This is why I think all the social studies are nothing but hokum.
 

Dead Man

Member
How embarrassing for anyone who supported her in this.

It's almost as bad as that Cat Party guy who goes around flaunting his intelligence, success, and good looks. Why can't I be as cool as him?

Not really. Stupid person takes advantage of peoples good intentions. Shouldn't be embarrassing at all. Should be anger inducing, but not embarrassing.

She is 26 and an undergraduate? What the hell is she doing in school? I think they should tell her to stop being an activist and get to class. This is why I think all the social studies are nothing but hokum.
That's some conclusion you are drawing from a sample size of one that doesn't actually support your conclusion.
 

Cyrillus

Member
I really hope some of the larger feminist blogs pick this story up and run with it. This should piss off them the most. Not finding anything yet though :-/
 
Kind of an off-shoot of Munchausen syndrome, I guess. Looking for attention and sympathy. She probably needs help. But it looks like she is digging her heels in.


edit: uh, or it could be a reeeeally cynical attempt at bolstering her image as an activist. I'm not really sure which is worse.

A little of the former, a lot of the latter. Her wording tells me she wants to be "that girl who got threatened of Facebook...BUT FOUGHT BACK!"
 

Angry Fork

Member
She is 26 and an undergraduate? What the hell is she doing in school? I think they should tell her to stop being an activist and get to class. This is why I think all the social studies are nothing but hokum.

Or she didn't start college until 24-25.
 
Since when does "hate fuck" mean rape?

It's certainly a graphic and hateful post, but I don't really read it as a rape threat to start with. I've heard plenty of people expressing the desire to hate fuck someone (or in some cases they'd actually done it), and none of those people ever meant that they wanted to forcibly sexually assault the person of their hatred. There's like 10 UrbanDictionary definitions for "hate fuck" and none of them mention non-consensual sex.

Maybe rape has lost some of it's oomph since it became synonymous with victory in sports/games. And Hate Fuck is such a brute, awful sounding word.

But yeah Hate Fuck is not rape.
 

jorma

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It has the potential to be.

In that case, so does "love fuck" or "indifferent fuck".

Either way, the husband has the first comment on that FB-post. I wonder if that means he was in on it the whole time. Or if he didn't know and ruined everything by making her report it to the police.
 

border

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It has the potential to be.

I'd say it's much more along the lines of Seduce & Destroy. There's often a misogynistic slant, wherein you want to get a girl's hopes up about a romantic relationship, and then see them emotionally shattered when you toss her to the curb after a one night stand. Either that or there's a narcissistic slant, wherein you want to bring a girl over to your line of thinking or way of life, purely through your sexual prowess.

And in some other way, it could be about weirdly resolving the tension between your physical attraction towards a girl's looks and your psychological revulsion towards her personality and ideas. Sexually conquering her lets you to remove her attractive mystique, allowing for a more pure hatred that isn't tinted by your lustful impulses.

In any case, I think it's very rarely about rape.....but I certainly see how it can be construed as such.
 
it's nice to be able to put a face to dogmatic feminists sometimes. thanks for sharing

it's funny that she's willing to inflate the threat of rape to push her agenda.

make women live with an exaggerated sense of fear, how empowering.
 

MikeDip

God bless all my old friends/And god bless me too, why pretend?
This kind of thing makes me so upset. And surely she must have known filing that report wouldn't be a good idea if she made the whole thing up like the article says.
 

Sye d'Burns

Member
In that case, so does "love fuck" or "indifferent fuck"

Sure.

Although, I can't imagine a scenario in which the {assailant} would post on Facebook to say "I want to copulate with {victim} in an indifferent manner so dispassionately. That chick runs her impartial mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it. I think it's tolerable and it makes me sober. One night with me and she's gonna be a mollified Moderate maiden."

Either way, the husband has the first comment on that FB-post. I wonder if that means he was in on it the whole time. Or if he didn't know and ruined everything by making her report it to the police.

It is curious.
 
I'm onboard with speaking out against rape culture, but hate fucking is a term people use time to time, and I've always heard it in context of consensual sex between people who hate each other but are irresistibly attracted to each other (like an ex-boyfriend / ex-girlfriend pairing).

Grouping things into rape culture that AREN'T part of rape culture only gives ammunition to the other side, so they can claim that you're labeling things as rape culture even when it's not.

This. Also, the idea of hate-fucking is kinda hot.
 

jorma

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Sure.

Although, I can't imagine a scenario in which the {assailant} would post on Facebook to say "I want to copulate with {victim} in an indifferent manner so dispassionately. That chick runs her impartial mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it. I think it's tolerable and it makes me sober. One night with me and she's gonna be a mollified Moderate maiden."

Well my point was that the "it could be" comment was pretty pointless since everything "could be".

Either way, can you imagine a scenario where an assailant would post "she runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it"?
She couldn't even stop masturbating to herself in a fake hatemail. Mindboggling.
I'd like to think that my internal bullshit-detector would start to tingle if i had heard about this thing prior to the bust.
 

Sye d'Burns

Member
Well my point was that the "it could be" comment was pretty pointless since everything "could be".

Either way, can you imagine a scenario where an assailant would post "she runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it"?
She couldn't even stop masturbating to herself in a fake hatemail. Mindboggling.
I'd like to think that my internal bullshit-detector would start to tingle if i had heard about this thing prior to the bust.

I don't think anyone that has perused youtube comments would have given the post's authenticity a moment's thought. Knowing that it now is likely, or at least seems to be, fake, you're right; she really was fluffing that ego of hers.
 

jorma

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I don't think anyone that has perused youtube comments would have given the post's authenticity a moment's thought. Knowing that it now is likely, or at least seems to be, fake, you're right; she really was fluffing that ego of hers.

Yeah, i suppose.
 

Tookay

Member
Why do I have the feeling that, had this been a conservative framing a bunch of liberals, this fact would have been displayed in the title and this thread would have been twice as long, with people trying to link this to some deeper pathos behind insane conservatism?
 

Sye d'Burns

Member
Why do I have the feeling that, had this been a conservative framing a bunch of liberals, this fact would have been displayed in the title and this thread would have been twice as long, with people trying to link this to some deeper pathos behind insane conservatism?

It's par for the course. If blaming the other party doesn't work and religion can't easily be tied to it, it's easier for some to say to themselves, "this too shall pass" as they move on to greener pastures.
 

Gannd

Banned
Why do I have the feeling that, had this been a conservative framing a bunch of liberals, this fact would have been displayed in the title and this thread would have been twice as long, with people trying to link this to some deeper pathos behind insane conservatism?

it would. but this forum leans extremely left and people don't like coming down hard on their own team.
 

TruckDriver

Neo Member
He looks pretty real to me :p

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2013/05/01/news/doc51808a142d4e0194745034.prt

doc51808a142d4e0194745034.jpg

University of Wyoming student Meg Lanker-Simons speaks Monday with her husband Andrew at her side
during a demonstration organized to protest sexual violence and rhetoric near the student union.
PETER BAUMAN/Boomerang staff​


I bet he's mighty proud.



Good enough to be on Think Progresses "Golden Thinkr" honoree list, though. (I haven't read her blog other than the pages I posted, so I dunno)

http://think-progress.tumblr.com/post/24424887435/announcing-the-2012-thinkprogress-tumblr-honorees


Ugh, that poor, poor man...
 

Lambtron

Unconfirmed Member
She is 26 and an undergraduate? What the hell is she doing in school? I think they should tell her to stop being an activist and get to class. This is why I think all the social studies are nothing but hokum.
I don't know, maybe she took time off. I'm 31 and I'm an undergraduate. I dropped out and I'm just getting around to coming back.

But hey I'm also going to school for social science, so why bother.
 

Pau

Member
it's nice to be able to put a face to dogmatic feminists sometimes. thanks for sharing

it's funny that she's willing to inflate the threat of rape to push her agenda.

make women live with an exaggerated sense of fear, how empowering.
I don't think women have an exaggerated sense of fear. But then again, going by previous threads, some people don't think we're scared enough.

This girl is incredibly dumb. There are so many legitimate ways to raise awareness about this issue. What the hell is her problem.
 

Pollux

Member
So she wants to raise awareness about "rape culture" and yet her fake post doesn't even talk about rape....i'm clearly missing something here.

Ya just can't teach this kinda crazy
 
I never thought the term "hate fuck" was something realted to rape / sexual assault. I always thought it meant something like, "well if she's down, I'll fuck her good an hard" kind of a thing with regards to someone one might not care for. Sort of like what a liberal male would do to Sarah Palin before she tuned into a skeleton.
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
This kind of thing makes me so upset. And surely she must have known filing that report wouldn't be a good idea if she made the whole thing up like the article says.
It's kinda ironic that one of the major complaints is that the police don't take women seriously when it comes to reports of sexual assaultthreats and then she is caught because they did take it seriously.
 
I think my biggest problem with those posts she made is how she defiantly told UW to leave the post up, acting all brave against an imaginary foe. Makes a mockery of those victims who are brave enough to go public against their aggressors, while putting an unfair amount of pressure on those who are still too frightened to come forward.
 
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