I think it is important to be aware that claims that "Jackie"’s allegation is false are not about misremembered details. You can check Reason’s or the Washington Post’s coverage for the full story, but it appears that the accused victimizer was invented well before the allegations of rape by Jackie and was used in an attempt to get one of her friends romantically interested in her. The invented guy was “Haven Monahan”. Jackie claimed that a photo of a high school classmate was “Haven”, and apparently used a text spoofing site to impersonate “Haven” to her friends. She even plagiarized dialogue from Dawson’s Creek in this correspondence! For whatever reason, she later claimed that the imaginary Haven was instrumental in luring her into the assault described in the Rolling Stone article.
It may be that Jackie is a very disturbed woman. It may be that she is mentally ill. And it may also be that she experienced some trauma that led her to make these claims, whether on the night she claims or perhaps many years in her past…or the entire thing may have been manufactured from whole cloth. But this is not a case of “those evil frat boys must have done something, and she just got the details wrong”.
I think it is important to be aware that claims that "Jackie"’s allegation is false are not about misremembered details. You can check Reason’s or the Washington Post’s coverage for the full story, but it appears that the accused victimizer was invented well before the allegations of rape by Jackie and was used in an attempt to get one of her friends romantically interested in her. The invented guy was “Haven Monahan”. Jackie claimed that a photo of a high school classmate was “Haven”, and apparently used a text spoofing site to impersonate “Haven” to her friends. She even plagiarized dialogue from Dawson’s Creek in this correspondence! For whatever reason, she later claimed that the imaginary Haven was instrumental in luring her into the assault described in the Rolling Stone article.
It may be that Jackie is a very disturbed woman. It may be that she is mentally ill. And it may also be that she experienced some trauma that led her to make these claims, whether on the night she claims or perhaps many years in her past…or the entire thing may have been manufactured from whole cloth. But this is not a case of “those evil frat boys must have done something, and she just got the details wrong”.