What Rolling Stone did to "Cindy"

Not only is Cindy portrayed as the instigator of Jackie’s abandonment; her cruelty is given a particular social and sexual character. One traumatic aspect of the aftermath of the rape, according to Rolling Stone, was that “her pals were now impatient for Jackie to rejoin the merriment.” And here is Cindy again, in what would be one of the worst passages in the article even if everything Jackie said were true:

Cindy, a self-declared hookup queen, said she didn’t see why Jackie was so bent out of shape. “Why didn’t you have fun with it?” Cindy asked. “A bunch of hot Phi Psi guys?”

Cindy’s supposed tolerance for rape, in other words, is attributed to her own supposed promiscuity. She thought that being gang-raped could be “fun”—she was that kind of girl. Deliberately or not, the passage plays to the notion that a young woman like Cindy couldn’t really be raped if the perpetrators were “hot Phi Psi guys.” But of course she could be.