Nicole Eramo patiently listened to Jackie’s story about Haven Monahan several times and rightly figured out it wasn’t legit, for which she was much denounced as a facilitator of campus rape culture from Nov. 19th to December 1st, 2014.
By the way, a search through the New York Times archives reveals that the newspaper finally published the name “Haven Monahan” in late March 2015, more than 4 months after CNN used it.
It’s revealing that Jackie catfishing Haven Monahan into digital pseudo-existence didn’t start out as a feminist thing, but instead was just about the girliest ploy imaginable, intended to make a boy she liked jealous. Her conversion into a feminist icon as star victim of white male patriarchy only happened gradually as she figured out that’s what our culture wants.
It’s interesting to contrast the American media’s immensely credulous response in November 2014 to Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s absurd write-up of Jackie’s ridiculous story to the Germany media’s attempt to hush up the New Year’s Eve goings-on in Cologne during the first few days of January.
Who? Whom?
