Lena Dunham's Alleged GOP Rapist Outed As Democrat

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

reason.com/blog/2014/12/31/gawker-outed-the-alleged-rapist-from-len

Gawker's J.K. Trotter recently made the decision to publish the name of the person he now presumes to be Lena Dunham's alleged rapist. That was irresponsible of him. Several journalists have dedicated considerable time to investigating the sexual assault that Dunham chronicled in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl; their reporting, and all information made available by Dunham in response, suggests that the attacker in the story may be a composite character based on her impressions of several dfferent people. Indeed, the person Gawker outed was not even a Republican activist—the key identifying detail attributed to the attacker in the memoir.

In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham recounts a specific instance of sexual assault during her time at Oberlin College. The book identifies the perp as "Barry," the campus's resident conservative, who wore cowboy boots and worked at the library. There's no suggestion that the name "Barry" was a pseudonym, though the book comes with a general warning that "some details and identifying details have been changed." Still, it's billed as a memoir, and the expectation is that the events depicted actually happened.

And in fact, there was a campus Republican named Barry at Oberlin at that time: one that many interested readers were able to dig up on the internet with ease. But this man never had sex with Dunham, or even met her—facts that conservative critics of Dunham were eager to prove, given how specific she was about her rapist's party affiliation. Earlier this month, Dunham apologized for inadvertently (according to her) impugning the real-life Barry. Any similarities between the rapist she described in the book and the actual man named Barry were purely coincidental, as she had indeed used a pseudonym. The previously mentioned "identifying details" were changed in order to obscure the real identities of certain people, including the perpetrator, according to Dunham.

[Shooby]

Amazing how many of their narratives turn out to be lies.

[billisonboard]

Jan 1, 2015 6:42:58 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Amazing how many of their narratives turn out to be lies.

Unclear antecedent for the pronoun "their". According to Wikipedia, "Lena Dunham is an American actress, author, screenwriter, producer, and director." Are any of those nouns the antecedent? She is female, has been reported to have a male "partner" so is heterosexual(?), relatively young, appears to be a New Yorker. Have I got it yet? Again Wikipedia, "very culturally Jewish" and "Dunham was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder".

[Opti]

Paul, you really like this story. Your original thread on this already has

 the facts that readers decide to out the guy in RL partly because he was

named Barry, and they were wrong. A settlement has already occurred with

the author.

I believe the identity of the person(and it could be a mash up) is still unknown.

So not necessarily Democrat, Republican, etc. When writing about real life people

you do not want to out, the details are often wrong on purpose.

I guess certain readers want to out whoever they think this is so they can

torture him and Lena over it. So when is retread thread #3 due on this?

[Opti]

This time it is supposedly a Democrat,

last time it supposedly was incest at college.

notmsnmoney.proboards.com/thread/42729/lena-dunham-admits-incestuous

Both times the teaser word is never mentioned again. If these had been emails

instead of board posts I would have deleted them without reading.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 1, 2015 11:24:58 GMT -5 Opti said:

Paul, you really like this story. Your original thread on this already has

 the facts that readers decide to out the guy in RL partly because he was

named Barry, and they were wrong. A settlement has already occurred with

the author.

I believe the identity of the person(and it could be a mash up) is still unknown.

So not necessarily Democrat, Republican, etc. When writing about real life people

you do not want to out, the details are often wrong on purpose.

I guess certain readers want to out whoever they think this is so they can

torture him and Lena over it. So when is retread thread #3 due on this?

The identity was unknown.  It's known now.  What is still unclear is whether or not there was ever actually a rape.  I suspect the entire story was a lie from start to finish- pure fantasy from Dunham's rather active imagination.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 1, 2015 6:42:58 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Amazing how many of their narratives turn out to be lies.

We know who "they" are. And we know their familiar false narratives.

[billisonboard]

Jan 1, 2015 12:21:04 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 1, 2015 6:42:58 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Amazing how many of their narratives turn out to be lies.

We know who "they" are. And we know their familiar false narratives.

[Opti]

Rereading this the staff writer of the Gawker blog originally outed a guy

named Barry as the rapist, was wrong, and now I'm supposed to believe

try #2 is correct?

What the h* is wrong with this person? Or is it just the belief that no one

who is Republican can be a rapist so he/she feels the need to prove who it

is no matter who he/she hurts along the way? Lena is weird. This person is

weird.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 12:34:34 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jan 1, 2015 12:21:04 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

We know who "they" are. And we know their familiar false narratives.

I think its the traditional silly belief that anyone not a conservative Republican

must therefore be a liberal Democrat. After all when you live in a black and white

world, the myriad possibilities of gray don't exist for you.

I think that's why some conservative Republicans are shocked many of us here don't know

about or care about some of their latest straw "liberal Democrats". It does however concern

me how obsessed some of them are about finding their latest target and trying to destroy it.

I don't even know whether Bill Cosby is a Republican, Democrat or registered Independent.

Same with Lena. Starting to make me wonder why the political affliations in the Penn State

pedophile scandal weren't trumpeted to all corners of the Internet. Hmmmm.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 1, 2015 12:21:04 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 1, 2015 6:42:58 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Amazing how many of their narratives turn out to be lies.

We know who "they" are. And we know their familiar false narratives.

no, "we" don't.  i think i can guess who YOU think "they" are, but i have no clue.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 12:20:09 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jan 1, 2015 11:24:58 GMT -5 Opti said:

Paul, you really like this story. Your original thread on this already has

 the facts that readers decide to out the guy in RL partly because he was

named Barry, and they were wrong. A settlement has already occurred with

the author.

I believe the identity of the person(and it could be a mash up) is still unknown.

So not necessarily Democrat, Republican, etc. When writing about real life people

you do not want to out, the details are often wrong on purpose.

I guess certain readers want to out whoever they think this is so they can

torture him and Lena over it. So when is retread thread #3 due on this?

The identity was unknown.  It's known now.  What is still unclear is whether or not there was ever actually a rape.  I suspect the entire story was a lie from start to finish- pure fantasy from Dunham's rather active imagination.

Its so "known" that only this one blog writer who was wrong before has posted it.

I hope she does not cave and say who it really is or it was two or more men mashed

together.

There are rapists that are Republican. There are rapists that are Democrats. There are rapists

that are registered Independent, do not vote, etc. Get the *&$%# over that. Jeez.

I'll wait for more than one conjecture found by Google before believing anything.

If she did her disguising correctly, JT is wrong again, but not before trashing yet

another RL person. I hope Lena starts suing JT and getting some serious $$.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 1, 2015 12:46:36 GMT -5 Opti said:

Rereading this the staff writer of the Gawker blog originally outed a guy

named Barry as the rapist, was wrong, and now I'm supposed to believe

try #2 is correct?

What the h* is wrong with this person? Or is it just the belief that no one

who is Republican can be a rapist so he/she feels the need to prove who it

is no matter who he/she hurts along the way? Lena is weird. This person is

weird.

it is just the obsessive contempt of all things Democrat, that's all.  easily ignored.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 13:08:24 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jan 1, 2015 12:21:04 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

We know who "they" are. And we know their familiar false narratives.

no, "we" don't.  i think i can guess who YOU think "they" are, but i have no clue.

  x100,000

I don't know this Lena person but I am getting tempted to email or tweet her

suggesting she sue this JT person into oblivion.

[zibazinski]

Sad thing is that stuff like this makes REAL rape victims even less credible which is very wrong. Her ass should so be in a sling for doing this to all real victims of rape.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 1, 2015 13:15:35 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Sad thing is that stuff like this makes REAL rape victims even less credible which is very wrong. Her ass should so be in a sling for doing this to all real victims of rape.

you want to take that argument further?  the press should not run this woman up the flagpole for political benefit, as it is also harmful to victim's rights.

OR, if they DO, they should point out what the real stats are on this sort of thing, so that they see her as the ridiculous exception that she is.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 13:09:50 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jan 1, 2015 12:46:36 GMT -5 Opti said:

Rereading this the staff writer of the Gawker blog originally outed a guy

named Barry as the rapist, was wrong, and now I'm supposed to believe

try #2 is correct?

What the h* is wrong with this person? Or is it just the belief that no one

who is Republican can be a rapist so he/she feels the need to prove who it

is no matter who he/she hurts along the way? Lena is weird. This person is

weird.

it is just the obsessive contempt of all things Democrat, that's all.  easily ignored.

I think in this case its the obsessive fear of making sure Republican is not linked

with the word rapist. Making me wonder if JT is a rapist and is using this a misdirection.

Amazingly odd in a sick stalker kind of way.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 13:15:35 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Sad thing is that stuff like this makes REAL rape victims even less credible which is very wrong. Her ass should so be in a sling for doing this to all real victims of rape.

She didn't do anything to anyone. She wrote a book. She wrote about

an experience but changed details. She did not do anything about it then,

has no plans to do anything about it now.

The problem is all because of the people who want to know who it is.

The readers, conservative readers looking for dirt, are the problem.

JT and his ilk trying to make it into lets find who it really is, are causing

the issue. He's fucked with two lives already and is gunning for #3.

His ass should be in a sling.

 to people who can't seem to tell the difference between the attempt

to share an emotional experience and the intention to share and reveal a literal 100%

fixed in reality experience.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 1, 2015 13:17:55 GMT -5 Opti said:

Jan 1, 2015 13:09:50 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

it is just the obsessive contempt of all things Democrat, that's all.  easily ignored.

I think in this case its the obsessive fear of making sure Republican is not linked

with the word rapist. Making me wonder if JT is a rapist and is using this a misdirection.

Amazingly odd in a sick stalker kind of way.

the GOP are the new puritans. 

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2015 13:26:14 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jan 1, 2015 13:17:55 GMT -5 Opti said:

I think in this case its the obsessive fear of making sure Republican is not linked

with the word rapist. Making me wonder if JT is a rapist and is using this a misdirection.

Amazingly odd in a sick stalker kind of way.

the GOP are the new puritans. 

Some of them. It makes me think of Spitzer after prostitution while using prostitutes

himself. It wouldn't be this relentless if it didn't hit close to home.