As Twitchy reported earlier today, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz completed her “Carry that Weight” art project — “an artistic expression of the personal trauma I’ve experienced at Columbia” — by carrying her dorm mattress on stage at her graduation ceremony. Salon wisely appended the word “alleged” to its headline identifying Sulkowicz as a rape survivor, as the student she identified as her rapist was investigated and cleared by both the school and law enforcement and is suing Columbia for contributing to the destruction of his reputation.
That detail hasn’t kept the so-called “Mattress Project” from being covered worldwide and lauded as a symbol of female empowerment. Just two days ago, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power compared Sulkowicz’s mattress stunt to the real-life achievement of Afghanistan’s women’s national cycling team.
From a wmn carrying a mattress on her campus to Afghanistan's Wmn's Nat Cycling Team, reaching true equality req showing change is possible.
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) May 17, 2015
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@jneutron1969 She doesn't know it's made up. Good grief almighty. @AmbassadorPower
— William Belcher (@EdB_Ohio) May 17, 2015
@GayPatriot Considering what this White House has done to the world, I don't think @AmbassadorPower knows a damn thing.
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 17, 2015
@ambassadorpower Except "wmn carrying a mattress on her campus" turns out to have falsely accused an innocent man. But facts shmacts, right?
— Kerfuffle Actual? (@shoshido) May 17, 2015
@ambassadorpower Also, that false accusation rises to level of international incident b/c falsely accused is German. Great work, Ambassador!
— Kerfuffle Actual? (@shoshido) May 17, 2015
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.@BenShapiro, I think @AmbassadorPower needs to get smarter. "Mattress girl" lied & young man is suing Columbia U. Good for him!
— Lady Penquin (@Lady_Penquin) May 17, 2015
@kellyrued @GayPatriot @BasteKnight Regardless of what she "believes", objectively the rape did not occur and @AmbassadorPower is an idiot.
— Bryan Coughlin (@BPCoughlin) May 17, 2015
.@AmbassadorPower It's a stunt based in nonsense. What a shock you're impressed by it.
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 17, 2015
Ambassador Power isn’t the only one impressed, hoax or not. Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who invited Sulkowicz to be her guest at January’s State of the Union Address, credits her with helping shine “more of a spotlight on the problem” of campus sexual assault.
@KatiePavlich @AmbassadorPower But mattress girl raised awareness of the campus rape epidemic. Or it's art or something.
— Trent Max (@MaximumTrent) May 17, 2015
Exactly. And it is a performance art project, approved for college credit as part of Sulkowicz’s senior thesis.
@AmbassadorPower Huh? She needed to falsely accuse a student of rape and then taunt him for years to show change is possible? @benshapiro
— Charles Flemming (@ChasFlemming) May 17, 2015
.No surprise, @EdB_Ohio @jneutron1969, Lefties like @AmbassadorPower, only care about their agenda, not the truth. #Falsenarratives
— Lady Penquin (@Lady_Penquin) May 17, 2015
Hold up there @AmbassadorPower, I'm not sure you thought this one through.
— Senate Popular VotEEE (@EEElverhoy) May 17, 2015
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@AmbassadorPower yeah, women lying about rape are totes the same as women being caned for being raped. HOW are you an ambassador?
— Rani ~ Science Skeptic ? (@MilitaryRosary) May 17, 2015
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@drawandstrike @KatiePavlich @AmbassadorPower
They say great managers hire people smarter than themselves. Obama did and these are his.— Jim (@Ifitsthisname) May 18, 2015
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