With vague date-rape accusations, Cosmopolitan seeks its own Jackie Coakley

[BootNootly]

In the aftermath of the Rolling Stone rape hoax, the media has become more careful about using rape allegations for propaganda.

So when freelance journalist Bekah Grant, writing for Cosmopolitan last week, decided to create a rape-accusation story with no evidence, she kept things REAL vague, except for the alleged victim's name. There's no university or fraternity who can sue, and say they've been defamed. Just the anti-abortion movement in general.

It is essentially a cheap knockoff of Sabrina Rubin Erdely's story.
1) alleged victim was initially interested in the "attacker"
2) alleged victim was taunted after the attack.
3) physically implausible details. Erdely: men were raping Coakley directly over shards of broken glass. Bekah Grant: man pulled (obese) victim into the back seat of a car from behind and also bit her chest.

If you read the article you'll see that the alleged victim is pretty pathetic and there's little reason to rehash her motivations.

But the journalist, Bekah Grant, has written for many national publications over the years and graduated from an Ivy League university. She has every reason to know better, yet chose to run with this warmed-over rehash of Jackie Coakley that carefully covers its tracks by not accusing anyone with any legal standing.

The least we can do is make sure anyone thinking about hiring Bekah Grant knows about her transparent attempt to imitate Sabrina Rubin Erdely, whose career will never recover.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a10029357/calla-hales-abortion-clinic-rape-harassment/

 

[spokepoker]

Googling the victims name brings up a whole bunch of other articles about it as well.
Maybe it really happened, but with all the fake rape hoaxes going around it's hard to tell.

 

[BootNootly]

Googling the victims name brings up a whole bunch of other articles about it as well.
Maybe it really happened, but with all the fake rape hoaxes going around it's hard to tell.

Those aren't really "articles," they're just other sites aggregating the original Cosmopolitan story by Bekah Grant.

 

[BootNootly]

Even moderate-liberal Slate has now thrown Cosmopolitan and Bekah Grant under the bus, running a fairly long list of all the holes in her story.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...s_underbaked_account_of_a_sexual_assault.html

 

[John Michael Kane]

The Slate article is actually a pretty good writeup (can't believe I just said that!) about all the inconsistencies in the Cosmo story. Bottom line is, Cosmo is more fake news!

 

[Jetset]

I think the woman is suffering from some kind of "gang stalking" delusion. This is so common that articles written about it as a form of mental illness often receive comments from multiple people who are glad to have found other people having the same experience - unable to understand it's imaginary.

Whether she was raped or not, common sense should tell the author that her belief that the rapist is in the crowd telling protesters what words to say and what her body looks like, as well as the convenience of key records being lost, raises serious red flags about her mental state and that the story needs extensive corroboration.