So, you're only a rapist if you are convicted of rape?
Have you considered the humiliation, shame, and negative feedback that any woman who discusses her rape goes through? Have you considered that she probably just destroyed her own career? Have you considered that false rape accusations cause 100 times the pain for the accusers than for the accused, which is why they are so rare? Have you considered that you are spouting the talking points of MRAs everywhere who hate the idea of their hegemony being diminished?
I can keep going. Shall we make a list of everything you think I haven't considered and everything I think you haven't considered, and see who looks more like a jackass at the end of it (hint: it's one of the very few ways someone can look more like a jackass than I)?
Save me your sanctimonious smugness, I'm going off what's been said by both parties.
Matt is obviously a pig, ok? But that doesn't make him a rapist. There are a ton of men AND women out there who are sexual predators. Tons of people have affairs and flings.
In most cases I side with the victim but in this instance I don't believe her based on the evidence.
Did you know:
-She claims she gave him a BJ so that he would record a video diss to her ex-boyfriend?
-The affair was lengthy with many sexual encounters.
-She came to his hotel room TWICE late that night after drinking with him in the bar. He says they engaged in oral, vaginal and anal sex. She says he immediately pushed her on to the bed and anally raped her.
Here's Matt's version of the events:
"Lauer
denied raping Nevils in a lengthy letter to
Variety.
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense,” he said. “I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014. It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
PEOPLE is out to Nevils for comment.
Lauer continued: “The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.”
Lauer acknowledged that the encounter was the beginning of his affair with Nevils and “the first of many sexual encounters between us over the next several months.”
“At no time, during or after her multiple visits to my apartment, did she express in words or actions any discomfort with being there, or with our affair,” he said. “She also went out of her way to see me several times in my dressing room at work, and on one of those occasions we had a sexual encounter. It showed terrible judgment on my part, but it was completely mutual and consensual.”
“Brooke now says that she was terrified about the control I had over her career and felt pressure to agree to our encounters after Sochi. But at no time during our relationship did Brooke work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News,” he continued. “She worked for Meredith Vieira (who had not worked for the Today Show in several years) in a completely different part of the network, and I had no role in reviewing Brooke’s work.”
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