Abigail Hauslohner, the Cairo bureau chief at the Washington Post, told the story of visiting a family friend at his college 14 years ago, going to a fraternity party, and being raped by the friend afterwards, in his dorm room. She recalls “my head lolling to one side and then my body falling back onto the mattress,” before repeatedly saying No.
In an essay in her book, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham wrote about being assaulted by a fellow Oberlin College student after leaving a party drunk and high. In a Buzzfeed post this month, Dunham described the backlash she faced for recounting the incident, including having her “character and credibility questioned at every turn” and being “attacked online with violent and misogynistic language.”
Susan Dominus, a reporter for the New York Times Magazine, uses column space to chronicle an episode her senior year of college, where she drank unidentified liquid from a red cup at a party, and was later assaulted by the man who filled the cup for her: He pressured her, “until, under the influence, I stopped resisting.”
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