SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

a_baron On the face of it, this is a disturbing, brilliant documentary that should rate ten out of ten, but people who have studied the subject matter will see it for what it is: propaganda for proper geese. The bedrock of "The Hunting Ground" is contrived statistics and plausible liars. Late in the film is an appearance from Barack Obama. On January 22, 2014, the President told the press it was estimated that one in five women had been sexually assaulted during their time at college, although he didn't say estimated by whom. Three years later, he sent his eldest daughter to Harvard. Would he really have done so had he believed that rubbish? Harvard alumnus Kamilah Willingham appears herein, implying that she was drugged before she was sexually assaulted by the (unnamed) Brandon Winston. She didn't mention the cocaine that she brought out after a night of hard partying. Cocaine can cause hallucinations without alcohol, and let's not talk about lowering inhibitions. She ended up putting this poor kid through four years of Hell and nearly trashing his career before it began.Another Winston falsely accused herein is Jameis Winston, who was said to have raped Erika Kinsman. She too implies she was drugged. In reality, hers was a case of instant regret sex. We are told that Winston was protected by the establishment because he was a top college football player. Florida is the state where young black men are fined by the police if they wear their trousers an inch too low, so the suggestion that white cops would protect a black athlete who'd violated a young white woman is too stupid to comment on. The hostility Kinsman received from other students - female as well as male - is because they knew she was lying.Male feminist David Lisak is brought in to give the film an air of academic credibility. He endorses both the 2% claim for false reports and the absurd 1987 Koss "study" claiming that since then the statistics have been extremely consistent. Koss has been debunked numerous times; the loaded questions in her so-called survey don't even include a direct: Has a man ever forced himself upon you when you told him emphatically "No!"Other contributors include Annie Clark, an athlete with cross-country running and soccer on her sporting CV - she was, she says, raped outside in a quite brutal manner. She didn't tell anybody for a very long time - she didn't know how to report a rape. How dumb are these college girls? Rape is a felony. If it happens to you, you need to dial 911, on campus or anywhere else.Andrea Pino's account is almost as unconvincing as Clark's; she was a virgin, she said, and didn't want to admit it had happened. Or maybe she didn't want to admit she had lost her virginity in sordid circumstances? And so it goes on. Is there really a problem with rape on campus? In recent years, with the single spectacular exception of the Vanderbilt case, every highly publicised campus rape has been a hoax. Furthermore, we are asked to believe that university administrators - many of them women - are complicit in this massive cover-up of the sexual violation of the cream of American youth. Maybe they know something the public doesn't.Male so-called survivors are dragged in, they appear to be homosexuals, but even if they aren't, their presence has an obvious reason, to garner much needed male support for the continued attack on due process. The attention-seeking Mattress Girl puts in an appearance, but not the clearly deranged Landen Gambill. No one should be deceived by the tears displayed in or the rhetoric of this film. There are better ways of tackling sexual assault on campus and everywhere else without eroding due process. One way is to teach young women to take responsibility for their own actions by not drinking themselves senseless and getting into cars with men they don't know. Apart from common sense, new technology can play a major part in both holding rapists to account and preventing them raping women in the first place. These though are beyond the scope of this review, and way beyond the scope of "The Hunting Ground".

Music Universe It is such a relief to see a documentary about campus rape. Finally, this epidemic is out in the open and getting the publicity it needs. I am a survivor of sexual violence and I can tell you that rape on campus and rape in general is WAY more common than most people assume it is. For everyone discounting the 1 in 4 statistic, look at the raw data from rape crisis hotlines. They get THOUSANDS of calls per day. These are not all from pathological liars or women who woke up with regret after having sex with someone. In fact, only 2 - 10% of rape allegations are false, and there are false allegations for EVERY crime. However, in our American culture, we are much more likely to be skeptical about rape allegations, which is unfortunate because when a victim brings an allegation forward or even just tells a friend, being disbelieved re-traumatizes the person. Someone else on here wrote that many women in their family have gone to college and none have been raped -- but that's not how statistics work. This person needs to take a statistics class. You can't choose any group of 4 women and expect to have exactly 1 rape survivor among them - depending on the particular group, none could be survivors or all four could be survivors. I am so glad that many universities are being called out for their improper handling of sexual assault allegations. For those of you who believe universities shouldn't be involved and this should only be a police matter, in my opinion, this isn't practical. Even if a rape report turned into an investigation, an arrest, and a future prosecution, this takes YEARS. In the meantime, both the victim and the alleged rapist exist on the same university campus, perhaps even in the same dorm room! As a survivor I can tell you this would be extremely traumatizing and it would affect the victim's ability to continue their education. This violates Title IX, which is "a law passed in 1972 that requires gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding." Also, universities have sanctions for misconduct, which should also include sexual misconduct. Not all victims want to go to the police or are in a position to do so, and one of the worst things you can do to a victim of sexual assault is force them to go to the police (or not). They have already had their choices taken away from them when their own body was violated, so please don't take away their choice on how to handle their assault away from them as well.

loco_73 "The Hunting Ground" is an important documentary, dealing with the disturbing and pressing issue of rape on college and university campuses throughout the United States.It is perhaps one of the most important documentaries in recent times.A lot of people have seen the news stories, heard from some of the victims and the accused and are somewhat familiar with this issue.Yet "The Hunting Ground" takes all those statistics and oftentimes "faceless accusers", and makes it all-personal, raw and real, by putting faces and names to all those who have been victims and are survivors of rape and sexual assault/harassment. You get to see the cost for everyone of these people who have lived through this harrowing experience, as well as the continuing aftermath and all the implications that go along.However, recently, because of the unfortunate incident with the Rolling Stone article and the unproven allegations in that particular case, a huge backlash has ensued against not only this movie, but also actual victims of rape, sexual abuse and harassment.Are there false claims? Yes, as there are in any other number of criminal categories and offences! However, as it was proved again and again, the number of false rape claims is minuscule when comparing to the number of actual claims brought forward by actual victims.Now, a myriad of right-wing mouthpieces, deniers, pundits, bloggers and "men's rights" warriors, are pouncing and using the Rolling Stone example as proof positive that rape on college and university campuses is a massive hoax being perpetrated by liberals, bleeding hearts, do-gooders and of course the perennial villains of this whole "debacle"...feminists, who apparently are the new evil incarnate in the 21st century, and the greatest threat to male identity and primacy in society at large.In fact these deniers insist that this is a massive public smear campaign against men, specifically all the good ol'boy networks of fraternities and athletic organizations.The venom, vitriol and poisonous bile spewed by these rape, sexual abuse and assault deniers is painful, sad, depressing and it really lives a bitter after-taste of frustration and disbelief.Not only are victims traumatized by the savage nature of the crime perpetrated against them, then victimized again by a system that was supposedly designed to support and help them, no...they get to be insulted, threatened and harassed once more by people who have never been exposed to or have any idea how devastating of a crime rape can be, as the movie makes it clear, for women, but also for men.Yet fame, money, popularity and connections, always come into play when these victims seek justice and redress for what they were forced to endure and live through.Should false claims and cases of this type of crime be dismissed and even prosecuted? Of course. No one being falsely accused should have to be punished or go to jail for a crime he or she did not commit. Innocent until proved guilty must hold for everybody.But to dismiss all cases of rape on campus out of hand is dangerous, ignorant and terribly narrow-minded.The naysayers seem to revel in proving that this entire issue is a sham. I would advise against being too gleeful, lest you or someone you know is ever affected by the blight of sexual violence.Watch the movie, try to be unbiased and make up your own mind as to what is what! Ask yourself...especially men, what if one of the victims was your mother, sister or girlfriend? What would you do and how would you react?

codieorama This film is an in-depth look at the state of sexual assault reporting and rape culture on college and university campuses around the U.S. The filmmakers post multiple sources throughout the film, and back up the claims made with a wide variety of sources. The widespread cover-ups of sexual assault and rape on college campuses that has been so well known by so many people who experience or study it, is finally exposed in this hard-hitting documentary. The Hunting Ground was actually inspired by the filmmakers discussions with college students when they were screening their other film The Invisible War. Apparently students came up to them after film screenings on campuses and told the filmmakers that they had experienced the same kind of silencing and inaction around campus sexual assaults and rapes. It's definitely a must watch for anyone interested in gender equality and addressing sexual violence on higher education campuses. We need to use this film as a catalyst for real change!