Video Outs College President As Rape Truther: Men Will ‘Use You Up’

Robert R. Jennings, the president of Lincoln University, alleged that three female students falsely accused male students of rape.
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The ranks of the campus rape truthers are swelling.

The president of a historically black university in Chester County, Pennsylvania alleged that three female students falsely accused male students of rape, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Saturday.

“We had on this campus three cases of young women, who after having done whatever they did with the young men and then it didn’t turn out the way they wanted it to turn out, guess what they did,” Lincoln University President Robert R. Jennings an auditorium full of female students. “They then went to Public Safety and said, ‘he raped me.'”

Jennings made the comments in September at the school’s All Women’s Convocation, but a YouTube video of his remarks began circulating recently. Holding separate convocations for female and male students is a tradition Jennings, who’s been with the university since 2012, started himself in order “to mentor each group in matters of behavior, dress, health – and sexual encounters,” according to the Inquirer.

In the video, Jennings also warns women not to “allow [men] to use you up” and discourages them from leveling allegations of rape that could ruin a male student’s future.

“Don’t put yourself in a situation that would cause you to be trying to explain something that really needs no explanation had you not put yourself in that situation,” he tells the audience.

Jennings told the Inquirer that his remarks were taken out of context in the video, but he stood by his statement that the three women he spoke about during the convocation falsely reported their alleged rapes out of revenge.

Both Lincoln University’s alumni association and staff took a vote of no confidence in Jennings before the video of his remarks on campus rape began to circulate.

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  1. Avatar for bkmn bkmn says:

    He seems nice…

  2. Wow…that’s a Bacon Double Derpburger with a side of Facepalm.

  3. This man needs to be fired immediately—and forced to receive some training so he can apologize for being such a jackwagon.

  4. What’s a “rape truther”?

  5. University President and Mansplainer, Robert Jennings.

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