It's astonishing how much of an idiot you are. Medical student? SO WHAT? Let's see, when you commit malpractice, we'll get a law student to represent you since you very clearly feel that being a student gives you any degree of expertise or the right to pass judgment in the form of your asinine commentary on whether or not this woman was assaulted.

I'm a woman and an attorney (No, I don't play one on the internet, I graduated, passed the bar and have been in practice for over 10 years) and you know what I see? LOTS OF ASSHOLES like you out there who make it impossible to move our society forward into the - I'd say the 21st century but it seems that we're often still in the dark ages.

By casting MEDICAL aspersions on the veracity of her statement, and worse, by using your quasi-credentials to do so, you join the brotherhood of "women are liars or they deserve it anyway and what the hell let's blame the victim." Attacking her with the scant knowledge of a medical student to analyze her injury with the attempted use of medical jargon "atypical of a single strike" "the edema likely would have been severe" - THANK YOU, Dr. Schmuck.

ah, wait.. but you're not a doctor, you're a medical student who had limited information and even more limited knowledge, but didn't let that stop you from commenting and DOUBTING and calling it a fake.

The thing that makes me angriest is that you are the next generation and you are at all representative of your class, of other young soon-to-be-doctors, then we've made no headway at all, and misogyny is alive and well -- cloaked in medical jargon rather than the more honest ugliness of "Hell, I don't believe her, because all women are lying hoes."

Then again, from my expertise, which is not limited, your use of medical jargon is suspect... while it's a hard call, I would actually say that there is a strong possibility of YOU being a fake medical student, and certainly no doubt as to your being an unenlightened ass.

In a more positive and hopeful note, you might want to think about the responses to your post - do some soul-searching. You don't have to talk about it here, but please, really - for your own good as your make your way through life - and I have to hope that you don't WANT to be what you have painted yourself as - think about why it is that you felt the need to call this woman a fake.

Was it the desire to have high ranking commit on reddit? Or do you harbor what you seem to; the belief that women are "probably" faking it, and if so, why do you belief that? Where does that come from in your life? Talk to someone - a counselor, whomever, about it.

I realize this may offend you, perhaps more so than my first (angry) response. But this is the internet, you ARE fairly anonymous, and if you are indeed a medical student, you have a career ahead of in which you can make a huge positive difference... or an ugly negative one. If you sort out the reasons behind the why of your post and beliefs now, digging down into the places no one likes to, where ugly things live in all of us that we don't want to confront, you'll end up a far better human being.

And one who wouldn't jump first to the assumption that a woman who has been assaulted is lying and making it up. I truly hope that you'll do this and that the combination of that and the reality of life (when you see all the women in the ER - when you do that rotation - who have been abused repeatedly and horrifically) cause you to have greater understand and eventually perhaps a reddit post talking about what you see and how embarrassed you are that you once posted something like this -- a post where you're the one talking about the reality of abuse and rape and assault and how YOU see it every day from women who were wearing teeshirts and jeans and walking around in safe neighborhoods.

That would be useful, and it would also be fair recompense for the comment you wrote two days ago in this thread.