Membership on the forum's shit list is exclusive. Lindy West. Hugo Schwyzer. Anita Sarkeesian. David Futrelle. Anil Dash. All of them earned their spot. Today I'd like to nominate another name for that list. Tyler Kingkade.
Kingkade is a writer for the Huffington Post. Here's his author page. His formula for stories is simple: clickbait headlines about rape on college campuses. He looks exactly like you'd expect:
Here's how an article about rape at colleges describes Kingkade:
http://harpers.org/blog/2014/09/ending-c...l-assault/
I believe that he believes that false rape never happens and girls have nothing to gain from talking to the media. How else to explain the fact that this man has devoted two years to writing the same story every day. Girl gets drunk, has sex with some guy, and shouts rape later. The college investigates and decides that there's no evidence for conviction. To him, it's a great injustice that these schools are not taking female accusers at their word.
He is pushing a radical definition of rape and an absurd method of dealing with rape accusations so that he can get more page views. And every article he publishes to be half-read by bored feminists during class turns already anti-male colleges more hostile to men.
Fuck this white knight.
Kingkade is a writer for the Huffington Post. Here's his author page. His formula for stories is simple: clickbait headlines about rape on college campuses. He looks exactly like you'd expect:
Here's how an article about rape at colleges describes Kingkade:
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Every activist needs a megaphone, and if you’ve read a story about a Title IX complaint in the last two years, chances are it came from Tyler Kingkade of The Huffington Post. Kingkade’s style, which might rankle some within the older journalistic rank-and-file, has been to go straight for what he calls the “WTF moment,” in which a school’s alleged response to a survivor’s report goes far beyond the pale. A mere ten-day sample of some of his work includes headlines like “University of Akron Police Suggested Sexual Assault Victim Was a Liar, Complaint Says,” “Hanover College Told Rape Victim That Attempting To Have Her Alleged Rapist Punished Is Harassment,” and “Amherst College Sexual Assault Policies Treat Alleged Rapists Better Than Laptop Thieves.” Although his stories go through traditional fact-checking and through three editors, he admits to certain leanings in his reporting. “I approach this knowing that very few women file false rape reports and that none really have anything to gain from talking to me,” he explained. The veracity of these “WTF moments” is hardly ever confirmed, but they make for good headlines, attract hundreds of comments, and have sparked a he-said/she-said battle between universities and survivors.
http://harpers.org/blog/2014/09/ending-c...l-assault/
I believe that he believes that false rape never happens and girls have nothing to gain from talking to the media. How else to explain the fact that this man has devoted two years to writing the same story every day. Girl gets drunk, has sex with some guy, and shouts rape later. The college investigates and decides that there's no evidence for conviction. To him, it's a great injustice that these schools are not taking female accusers at their word.
He is pushing a radical definition of rape and an absurd method of dealing with rape accusations so that he can get more page views. And every article he publishes to be half-read by bored feminists during class turns already anti-male colleges more hostile to men.
Fuck this white knight.