fem-fatalist:

This is a case-in-point of how news outlets with overt bias manipulate the news. 

The National Review is a conservative editorial outlet, but maybe not everyone knows that.  The beginning of the article masquerades as standard news reporting before veering off into commentary.  

But it’s the commentary that’s especially galling: the reporter Katherine Timpf actually acknowledges everything this person detailed in the twitter thread, but glosses over it for a superficial dig at feminism and Title IX i guess: 

It’s not clear from the documents what kind of punishment, if any, that the student faced for his violation — but the fact that an official even deemed what he did to be a violation is scary enough. To be fair, the document does report that the male student had also been pestering the female student for dates and wasn’t leaving her alone — which is, obviously, unacceptable — but the fact that his physical size was enough to constitute a violation-worthy power imbalance is absolutely ludicrous.

Stalking is a bit more than mere “pestering.” 

 Showing up at someone’s work places, repeatedly, after being rejected, isn’t “normal human behavior” as she writes after the above quote in the article (which has since been retracted btw).  

It’s amazing how this is such a blatant attempt to feed the outrage machine. 

Especially since the size thing is irrelevant: what’s actually happening is that a student is contesting the judgment against him, asserting that it was unnecessarily harsh due to racism.  Which, i don’t know, maybe?? But i guess that doesn’t make a sexy headline.