Oct 4, 2026 · 54 min · 13 segments
Today we're talking about the emerging feminist response to the Cornell rape case online, from urging moms to do better at raising boys to banning frats to getting glocks. Women are exhausted, angry…
Amanda MonteHostTracy Clark-FloryHostTwo were expelled, the fraternity chapter was closed, but none of the men faced criminal charges.
Now, following public outcry, um, the county DA now plans to present the case to a grand jury.
But just today, uh, we're recording this on October 1st, and this case is fast developing, so forgive us for anything that we haven't included that's come out since we recorded this.
But just today, the New York Times reported that Cornell police back in 2024 provided a summary of Jane Doe's statements to the DA that excluded the fact that in that interview, she very clearly and definitively said, quote, "I don't remember the very end of the event where I was raped.
I can say with 100% confidence I was raped." And so the DA in 2024 made the decision not to pursue the case because, as he put it recently, to his mind, there wasn't evidence, uh, that it, what happened was illegal or non-consensual.
Um, but it's very clear that what was presented to the DA was not the full story.
And my understanding is that the initial, um, report that she gave was something like six pages, and then this was shaved down to a two-page document that was given to the local authorities.
And I believe when she gave that first statement, there was, um, a Title IX representative in the room-
So there's been a lot of discussion about how, you know, the, um, [clears throat] you know, the shortening of the statement and, um, the sort of pitching of that statement has everything to do with, you know, the campus authorities working exactly as they're supposed to, which is to pr- protect the university's reputation, not to protect or defend this woman.
And it hardly seems benign that they choose to, uh, excise the part of her testimony where she says very clearly, "I was raped."
Um, and we should say too that it was student journalists who broke this story, um, recently.
And of course, you know, as we're recording this, uh, a couple days after that, we're kind of interested in digging into what has the public response been to this case.
Um, we're obviously moving through kind of a big cycle of outrage, which we are all familiar with if we have spent any time on the internet.
Two were expelled, the fraternity chapter was closed, but none of the men faced criminal charges.
Now, following public outcry, um, the county DA now plans to present the case to a grand jury.
But just today, uh, we're recording this on October 1st, and this case is fast developing, so forgive us for anything that we haven't included that's come out since we recorded this.
But just today, the New York Times reported that Cornell police back in 2024 provided a summary of Jane Doe's statements to the DA that excluded the fact that in that interview, she very clearly and definitively said, quote, "I don't remember the very end of the event where I was raped.
I can say with 100% confidence I was raped." And so the DA in 2024 made the decision not to pursue the case because, as he put it recently, to his mind, there wasn't evidence, uh, that it, what happened was illegal or non-consensual.
Um, but it's very clear that what was presented to the DA was not the full story.
And my understanding is that the initial, um, report that she gave was something like six pages, and then this was shaved down to a two-page document that was given to the local authorities.
And I believe when she gave that first statement, there was, um, a Title IX representative in the room-
So there's been a lot of discussion about how, you know, the, um, [clears throat] you know, the shortening of the statement and, um, the sort of pitching of that statement has everything to do with, you know, the campus authorities working exactly as they're supposed to, which is to pr- protect the university's reputation, not to protect or defend this woman.
And it hardly seems benign that they choose to, uh, excise the part of her testimony where she says very clearly, "I was raped."
Um, and we should say too that it was student journalists who broke this story, um, recently.
And of course, you know, as we're recording this, uh, a couple days after that, we're kind of interested in digging into what has the public response been to this case.
Um, we're obviously moving through kind of a big cycle of outrage, which we are all familiar with if we have spent any time on the internet.
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