It was the system doing its job, in the face of a prosecuter not doing his.

No case went to trial, nobody was wrongly sent to prison.

So I don't see why everybody keeps tossing this out there in fear and horror. Poor men! Why?

Everything worked the way it was supposed to.

where I used the word "white".

I didn't.

The race card is another part of the Duke weirdness.

Look, you don't have to believe me. Our local paranoid who is totally obsessed with this topic, Parson Jim, has posted something which reports on about 3% of rape cases being false accusations.

Again, 3%. Not so great that we have to hijack the whole thread with whining about the "danger" of false accusations. Women are discouraged enough when it comes to reporting rape. We don't have to make it worse. There's enough knee-jerk disbelief and an almost impossibly high standard of proof as it is.

I am highly suspicious of men who would make the environment even more hostile for women who would report rape. It just doesn't sound right to me.

"lily-white reputations" meaning "spotless". Substitute "spotless" if you will. The point was their reputations were not spotless. Their messages on their cell phones showed them to be huge bigots twoards women....not a criminal offense, but they were not nice people. I was not referring to their race as you well know.

You are grasping some very, very slender straws in your attempt to slander me and call me a racist. Is that really all you've got?

You're pathetic.

thanks for addressing the anecdote; it seems most here have decided to ignore it.

I have many cops as family members, and I generally have faith in their ability to size people up and know when they are being lied to. I also know that they are human, are frequently overworked, and they prioritize.

The whole he-said/she-said thing going on at the dorm was not a priority; the police may have just been being realistic. Sad but true. I'm not faulting the police.

All I am trying to point out is the total wrongheadedness of the assumption that any woman can get just squeak "Rape!" and get an innocent man tossed into prison for decades. As your own letter shows it just does not work like that. There is no chance without tons and tons of evidence.

Nobody, but nobody, just takes the woman's word for it. You can't even get the cuffs on the guy on that basis.

Oh, and women-haters, please spare everybody the few, rare, and outrageously disproportionately publicized exceptions.

I'm sorry you had to go through all that. Hopefully thought and reflection will help you find peace and confidence to say "no" in the future. You say you wanted the physical closeness and that is why you couldn't say "no". I am sure, like others, you quickly found out that true closeness was not forthcoming through being used for sex. I think a lot of women suffer pain this way, wanting so much to be loved, while their users laugh all the way to the bank. God, we need good, true-hearted *real* men in this world. I wish your situation could be a great rarity instead of such a commonplace that people on this thread feel the need to defend the behavior of such men as those who used you.

Amerigo, this is a thread about rape, not women who don't enjoy sex. I do so wish you could learn what the difference is. Sort of creepy how you can't seem to grasp that.

YESSSSS!

The insanity is over!

We can dance on the grave of this sucker now.

Oh, and was I first to post? I have so wanted to be first to hate on this strip, ever since it's started. Oh, I do hope I was first, on this, its last week in existence.

Once again, Hallelujah!

A cliffhanger in the last panel holding out the promise of....

The Secret of the Universe, no less?

awww, c'mon guys, see what we're missing.....!

SO glad this is done. I don't have to hate on it anymore.

Of course, it's a mixed blessing, because now all it leaves me with is the rape enablers commenting over at Broadsheet.

Maybe a good cartoon will come on Tuesdays. Just a thought? I mean, we could get behind a good cartoon, we don't have to bond over a horrible one.

I mean, this whole experience was....ugh. Really. An audience does not like to be mocked. And that's what was happening, every week. Not good.

You're absolutely right. I would love to see Toni/Tom/both write about the strip, what they hoped to do, why it didn't work. How did they feel about the letters?

I don't mean this in any mean way. It really would be an interesting read. Even an interview? I hope Salon will do this.

RIP KOF.