It was the screen grabs that did it.
Over the last week, as news spread about the lawsuit filed by Jane Doe, a former Cornell student who alleges that she was gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in 2024, the tenor of the reaction on social media can perhaps best be described as white hot fury.
For many women, it was as if seeing the vile messages shared that night — the accused offenders advertised “free” sex on Snapchat, saying “you can walk in and whip it out” — had roused an army of sleeper cell agents into action. This incident, judging by the online outrage, was not just another #MeToo moment: It was cause for a flip-the-table, burn-it-all-down primal scream.
As the actor Rati Gupta put it: “Maybe instead of Me Too, this round is [Expletive] Off.”