EXPELLED MALE SUES Columbia Claims Girl Begged Him For Sex, Then Falsely Accused Him
It’s open season on men at Columbia University thanks to the Ivy League school’s handling of sexual-harassment allegations against male students. An expelled Columbia male student says he fell victim to “anti-male, female protectionists’ gender biases permeating Columbia’s disciplinary process’’ after a female pal in 2016 accused him of rape. The female accuser begged him for sex one night in October before forcing him to fool around, says falsely accused Ben Feibleman, who filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The female accuser told her friends in the days that followed that Feibleman sexually assaulted her and she reported the incident to faculty about a week later, but not to police.
Feibleman met the female at an event, and she struck up an “hours-long flirtation” with him. He said they went up to a water tower atop an apartment building, where they kissed and then she began to pull Feibleman’s face into her breasts. They made their way to the female student’s room for more kissing, he claimed, but that’s where Feibleman’s consent ended. It is here when she begins to beg Feibleman for sex, his suit says, but he refused — citing the fact that she was seeing another man. The refusal didn’t sit well, according to the suit, and the female allegedly berated Feibleman for half an hour. “Please because I can’t let you go without it,” she begged, according to the suit, which accuses the female of trying to perform oral sex on Feibleman, as well as biting him. “Ben simply did not want to have sexual intercourse with [her],” the suit states.
The suit says Feibleman eventually started thinking he might be accused of misconduct, so he made a 30-minute phone recording of his encounter in the woman’s room. The recording, however, was unable to convince Columbia investigators that he was innocent. The school found that his female friend was too drunk to consent to any sexual relations and deemed Feibleman — who graduated from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism — responsible for sexually assaulting her. He was expelled and his degree is currently being withheld. Feibleman referred questions to his lawyer, Kimberly Lau, who issued a written statement stating: “Columbia University grievously mishandled this case. Columbia discriminated against Mr. Feibleman on the basis of his gender in violation of Title IX. The events of the evening in question and Columbia’s numerous missteps are clearly detailed in our lawsuit. Mr. Feibleman did not violate Columbia’s Gender Based Misconduct policies. In fact, Columbia acknowledged that she begged him for sex, he refused, and no sex occurred. Yet, Columbia continues to withhold his degree, despite the fact that he has met all the requirements for its conferral.”
