After Emma Sulkowicz, aka Mattress Girl, who walked around the campus of Columbia University carrying a mattress to protest the university’s attitude to her alleged rape, graduated and carried her mattress through the ceremony, someone started a hashtag and Twitter account called @fakerape, and subtitled it Faking Rape to Perpetuate an Astroturf Agenda.
The account published pictures of a poster placed around New York showing Sulkowicz carrying her mattress, with a caption reading “Pretty Little Liar.”
The site also featured a variety of hostile responses to Mattress Girl, including:
Did our free speech offend you? Good. #EmmaSulkowicz pic.twitter.com/K2dKSrMs4O
— Fake Rape (@fakerape) May 20, 2015
People are on to you, #EmmaSulkowicz. #ColumbiaCommencement pic.twitter.com/fePHwS2OpU
— Fake Rape (@fakerape) May 20, 2015
Fake rape is a crime, too. #EmmaSulkowicz pic.twitter.com/NJEsAYx5AR
— Fake Rape (@fakerape) May 20, 2015
A Flickr post reflected anger not only at Sulkowicz, but Lena Dunham, who had her own issues with a flimsy rape story. Another tweet brought up the rape allegations against the former president of the United States:
@fakerape BILL CLINTON RAPES CHICKS ALL THE TIME, YOU LOONEY LEFTISTS DON’T SAME TO CARE ABOUT THAT! I’M CONFUSED.
— unsavoryagents (@unsavoryagents) May 20, 2015
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