Aug 20, 2012 15:09
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A family friend was raped earlier this year when she went on a date with a guy from match.com, and when my mom told me about it, she said that the police told her that it was good she had bruises and injuries, because then people would believe it and a conviction was more likely. So that's where we are as a society -- grateful for physical injury, otherwise that rapist will walk. Disgusting. Really sick of living in a world that hates women.
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This is not how it should be.
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It is, I have to admit, easier to prove that whatever happened was not consensual if there are physical injuries. Unless it was caught on tape, witnessed, etc. threats and other sorts of coercion don't leave evidence that can be entered into a court register. I'm not sure how to get around that.
What needs to stop right. fecking. now. is the assumption that rape victims are lying, and in particular the framing of underage girls as 'Lolitas' who seduced those poor, bewildered 50 year old men.
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In some situations "forcible rape" distinguishes between other kinds of rape such as rape through blackmail, or rape of someone who cannot consent (asleep, intoxicated, too young, etc). This is not to say that these are not all kinds of legitimate rape, of course. And as you've said there are a lot of people (most often men) who do have some sick notion that if you don't fight 'til you're knocked out or half-dead, you didn't "try hard enough" to get away. These are also usually the guys that don't view any kind of non-forcible rape (such as rape of a woman who's blacked out) to really "count"...
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That is the only scenario I can think of, though, that I would classify as non-forcible rape.
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