The Duke E-Mail
The Duke Chronicle prints the full text of lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen's horrific e-mail.
It is: "tommrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c [a dorm room]. i plan on killing the bitches as soon as [they] walk in and proceding to cut their skin off while cumming in my duke issue spandex."
This is so appalling it's hard to react in any way other than with outrage.
But the e-mail does raise one particular question. What did McFadyen mean by the ungrammatical phrase "after tonights show"? (From the sound of it, McFadyen ought to have begun his sentence with that phrase. Perhaps he was so fired up, he couldn't get his grammar correct.)
Because as the Chronicle reports, "Three men allegedly pulled the victim into a bathroom and sexually assaulted her anally, vaginally and orally for approximately 30 minutes."
To Ryan McFadyen, would that constitute a show?
Joe Cheshire, a lawyer representing at least one of the lacrosse players, says that if a rape had occurred, McFadyen would be more likely to e-mail his teammates telling them to be quiet, not sending the e-mail above. "When people do something bad, they wouldn't be writing e-mails about it," Cheshire said.
Then again, there's also the possibility that McFayden is just a stupid, ignorant, violent person, cocky enough to think that three members of the lacrosse team could rape a woman and "joke" about it afterward.....
