'These are the stories of our lives': Prep school alumni hear echoes in assault claim

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Bettina Lanyi remembers. It was 1986, and she was in eighth grade. She and a friend went to a house in Washington’s Tenleytown neighborhood packed with high school kids, including a throng of boys from Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown Preparatory School. There was a lot of beer. A few fights broke out. Lanyi recalls being pawed and kissed. It freaked her out. She hadn’t been drinking, but her friend, also an eighth-grader, had.

Lanyi turned around to see a large freshman from one of the schools lying on top of her friend. Lanyi, then a petite 13-year-old, shoved the boy and kicked him. The boy was surprised and appealed to Lanyi to let him continue. “I’ll never get her number otherwise,” he told her. She took her friend and left.
Lanyi has thought about that night often since Sunday, when Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused

Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when she was a 15-year-old student at Holton-Arms School and he was a 17-year-old student at Georgetown Prep. She has thought about stories of male entitlement and drunken sexual assault she heard from classmates while she was a student at Prep’s Bethesda neighbor, Stone Ridge of the Sacred Heart, and the many more stories she has heard in the years since their graduation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/‘these-are-the-stories-of-our-lives’-prep-school-alumni-hear-echoes-in-assault-claim/ar-BBNzQ7I?ocid=spartandhp

[Midnight Writer]

1. Interesting, but not relevant to specific case. You can't say ALL prep school kids are predators

anymore than you can say all immigrants are criminals. You can't say this particular kid is a criminal because he comes from a certain neighborhood, or is a certain color, or comes from a certain family, or attended a certain school.

This is a fallacious argument, a non logical smear, an anecdote that, while salacious, doesn't apply to Kavanaugh's case.

I oppose Kavanaugh's nomination, but not because ALL PREP SCHOOL BOYS are criminal predators. I oppose his nomination because Kavanaugh himself is a predator and hypocrite and liar.

I don't think this kind of argument is helpful.

[Jarqui]

2. That article specifically said not "ALL prep school kids are predators"

And it is relevant. It is evidence of a culture that apparently existed there that permitted this sort of a sexual assault or made it much more likely to occur.

It is not direct evidence of this specific alleged assault against Dr Ford but it is circumstantial evidence and if they can produce more of it, it would help Dr. Ford's position.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. Your concern is duly noted.

“Most of the guys at these schools were really decent, nice guys, but there was a small minority that was popular and was out of control,” said a woman who attended Georgetown Visitation in the early 1980s and asked not to be identified. “I never got dragged into a bedroom, but that . . . happened to girls all the time.”

"There were lots of teenage boys I knew at Prep and Gonzaga who were not sexually assaulting girls, but they were in an environment where that was seen as acceptable,” said a woman who attended Stone Ridge in the late 1980s and is a member of the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic parish in Washington, the same church Kavanaugh attends. “The story that Dr. Ford told, that doesn’t surprise me at all.”

[kcr]

4. Really?

We're going to start seeing LEAVE THE PREP SCHOOL BOYS ALONE! posts now? Figures.

[blm]

5. Please point to where it says "ALL prep school kids are predators"

I missed that part and don’t recall anyone ever saying it here at DU.

[live2011]

6. Where were the parents? Were they clueless?

Did their kids say nothing to them about the "conditions" at the school?
Why would people pay to send their kids to such schools?