You may have come across various reels in your Instagram feed over the past few weeks featuring the film Promising Young Woman, a feature in which Carey Mulligan plays a woman who takes revenge on the allies of rape culture, fully aware that her vendetta will cut short her promising future. The reason Emerald Fennell’s movie has returned to the zeitgeist six years after its release is that it bears striking similarities to the Cornell case, in which a former student at that prestigious university reported she had been gang-raped and assaulted by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity.

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Virginie Despentes recorrió los caminos menos recomendables de la vida, los márgenes donde habitan la prostitución, el alcohol, el abuso o la violación impune y fue capaz de transformarlos en un cine y una literatura capaces de rasgar la piel y atravesar las capas de la corrección, la superficie que nos cubre. Así firmó libros como Fóllame o Querido capullo, pero ha sido Teoría King Kong (Random House) el que ayudó a fijar el marco de un feminismo de nuevo cuño que más tarde cristalizó en movimientos como el MeToo y una nueva mentalidad en las jóvenes. Aquel manifiesto ha cumplido 20 años y la autora francesa nacida en Nancy hace 57 años pasó por Madrid para hablar de ello en La Casa Encendida, mientras arreciaban las protestas en la Puerta del Sol y en París. Habla perfectamente español.

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The civil lawsuit over an alleged gang rape at Cornell University has reignited criticism of a “legal loophole” that complicates many sexual assault cases in New York. The debate centers on a key point in state law: it is extremely difficult for a sexual assault victim to obtain justice if they voluntarily consumed alcohol or drugs before being abused.

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“Let’s defeat the patriarchy.” “Cornell protects rapists and expels protesters.” Graffiti like this appeared Monday morning on the facade of Day Hall, one of Cornell University’s administrative buildings. This is the latest sign of outrage among many students over a case that has shaken not only this elite New York State university but the entire United States — a country that is increasingly viewing with concern how sexual violence against women on college campuses is a structural problem for which no solution has been found.

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Ten years ago, Brock Turner, a student-athlete at Stanford University in California, was convicted of three felonies for sexual assault against an unconscious woman whom he attacked, in front of witnesses, behind a trash container after a fraternity party on campus.

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