I’m sure some of us have heard the phrase “Masterpiece Theater.” But have you ever heard of Mattress Piece Theater? That’s pretty much what’s going on at Columbia University right now. From the somewhat untrustworthy Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News (for reasons we’ll see in a minute):

A Columbia University student is turning her senior thesis into a protest against the school’s sexual assault policies and her alleged rapist.

Emma Sulkowicz, a visual art major, says she is carrying a twin-size dorm-room mattress until her alleged attacker, a fellow Columbia student, is expelled. Sulkowicz is calling the endeavor, which she says is a sort of performance art piece, ‘Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight.’

You see, the mattress is Emma’s cross upon which she has been crucified. Like Jesus, she must carry her cross throughout a harsh and misunderstanding world. And in Emma’s world, there will be absolutely no justice until the man she accuses is railroaded off campus without a shred of evidence to support her accusations.

The piece could potentially take a day or go on till I graduate,’ Sulkowicz, a senior, told the Columbia Spectator.

The 21-year-old says she was raped in her dorm room on the first day of her sophomore year but did not report the alleged attack until she met two other women who said they were also assaulted by the same man. All three reported their cases to the university, and all three say their allegations were dismissed.

This paragraph is a series of lies (or journalistic incompetence) on the part of Dylan Stableford. Emma’s allegations were not “dismissed” out of hand. They were investigated by the university. Not that it’s the proper role of the school to investigate violent felonies, but they did their “due diligence.”

The other two students did complain to the school. One of the complaints was actually not about sexual assault, but nebulous accusations of “abuse” (which can mean anything nowadays). The school investigated their accusations as well. The accused student was found not responsible every time, despite the university being required to use an extremely low standard of evidence.

But did Emma go to the police? The student-run, independent news site BWOG interviewed Emma about it. She told BWOG:

…after being mishandled by them as well, I just didn’t feel safe or comfortable talking to them anymore, and they passed the case on to the district attorney’s office, who contacted me and said it would take up to nine months or a year for it to go to court.

By then I would have graduated, and if I sit around waiting for that, I’ll be missing out on other opportunities like creating this piece, or doing other work, it’ll just be a waste of my time.’ In short, she has been unable to work with the NYPD.

“Unable” to work with them? District attorneys’ offices are normally backed up. If it were a murder case it would be the same way. But since the criminal justice system didn’t drop everything it was doing to work on her case, she was “unable to work with them”?

Also, prosecuting your rapist is a “waste of time”? The “rapist” that is so dangerous that he (supposedly) abused three people whose accusations were found baseless by a kangaroo court?

I call bullshit. This kind of self-narrated, dramatized passion play, combined with the fact that she apparently doesn’t give a damn about prosecuting her “rapist,” screams the phrase “drama queen.”

And yes, let’s go ahead and say it: chances are that Emma Sulkowicz is a false rape accuser. If a kangaroo court doesn’t find the person you accused responsible, chances are your accusation wasn’t worth much of anything to begin with. And if Feminists don’t like that kind of reasoning, they can blame the people who set up those kangaroo courts to begin with: themselves.

Also, does anyone remember this?

Earlier this year Emma and several other women decided to publicly brand unconvicted young men of rape by writing their names on bathroom stalls across campus. I covered it here. Apparently this is also more important than pursuing a case through the criminal justice system.

There is an interesting comment at BWOG that I think is worthy of being highlighted:

I think people seriously need to rethink the myth that nobody is listening to rape victims. This has gone viral across the globe, and she didn’t even need a grain of proof. She gets tremendous support, has become a hero and there is no trace of even slightly critical reporting in the media.

So much for the narrative. It’s “performance art,” folks. In other words, it’s all for show.