Heather Mac Donald exposes the campus rape industry
The Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald is one of the nation’s most tireless myth-busters. No liberal shibboleth is safe. In the latest issue of City Journal, Heather takes on bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and the campus rape myth:
The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement is an even more important barometer of academia itself. In a delicious historical irony, the baby boomers who dismantled the university’s intellectual architecture in favor of unbridled sex and protest have now bureaucratized both. While women’s studies professors bang pots and blow whistles at antirape rallies, in the dorm next door, freshman counselors and deans pass out tips for better orgasms and the use of sex toys. The academic bureaucracy is roomy enough to sponsor both the dour antimale feminism of the college rape movement and the promiscuous hookup culture of student life. The only thing that doesn’t fit into the university’s new commitments is serious scholarly purpose.
It goes a long way toward explaining why liberal campus feminists have such little time or energy to focus on bona fide oppression of women.
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They push these young adults to “do it” and than men are accused of rape for “doing it”…if there was any semblance of chastity in young men and women today and the universities they attend…there would be no need for pots and pans and anti-male classes.
Liberalism killing the United States one day at a time.
I know I am going to take some heat for this so let me apologize in advance…
Here in NYC the rule of thumb is that: American cars are too big, over priced, too high maintenance & under performing.
Imports are the way to go. As Detroit goes, so does NYU. Sorry if I offend anyone-just free market solutions.
That is the truth.
Recently, I had the displeasure of working with a young graduate electrical engineer, the poor kid really didn’t know the difference between a watt and a volt! Our entire office was shocked (literally and figuratively). True story.
It’s their personal life. Butt out!
re: #2 brooklyn red said:
Please tell us… What the hell does that have to do with campus sex and/or rape???
Sounds like much ado over nothing to me as the solution is quitsimple. Do not piss away your monies away in sending your kids to liberal colleges. Leave those to the oh-so-enlightened liberal families.
Pick a college with high acedemic credentials and a no tolerance policy. Also, look into getting your daughter a nice compact .22 so that you won’t worry so much. IMHO, it is better to pay for a lawyer than a doctor or a funeral.
Watt’s a volt? Sorry, it had to be said and gotten out of the way.
On a serious note, the military has gone the same way in electronics. When I went through tech training we had to troubleshoot problems to the component. Now they run a BITE test and replace a module. Give them a piece of broken equipment that doesn’t have a processor in it and they are lost. I caught them at the end, but I worked on equipment with tubes.
Which leads to:
The entire education system has gone to the dogs. Considering we live in the age of “just Google it,” giving out tips for better orgasms and how to use sex toys probably fits into the simplistic nature of a lot (not all) of today’s college students.
It’s the garbage writers like MacDonald, Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia who make it very difficult for actual rape victims to have a voice. Speaking of Roiphe, did MacDonald lift any of her material? Because it sounds just like Roiphe’s crap.
We had robust 2M programs on the Navy ships I served aboard.
I do not think there are decent colleges or Universities anymore … sadly.
How about a Charter Arms .44 Pug using 240 Grain Round ball dropped down to about 800fps? The drop in velocity makes it easier for lighter hands to handle. The size is very compact and even with a reduced charge (Yeah, I make my own) the two-inch barrel means it barks real loud. For me? I have a 240 Grain full metal jacket with a factory serrated tip coming out about 1180fps but after a couple of cylinders (Ten shots) my wrist is a bit sore though. Then again, one is usually all it takes.
Just do not let her keep it in her purse. For a female … probably a conceal holster worn on the back of the pants would be ideal. The attacker would not be so apt to find it and once he put her hands behind her back … well … it does save some taxpayer money.
I remember an interview with Ratzenberger (”Made in America” show) where he stated that the biggest complaint he heard from employers were about college grads coming in for jobs, waving degrees, demanding managerial positions, and knowing very little about the field. They have to start at the bottom like everyone else.
A good example of useless college departments is the “Justice Studies” or “Peace and Social Justice” programs that have popped up at many universities across the country.
I have had the pleasure of working with one of Colorados leading advocates on violance against women. She is a wonderful counselor and advocate. However she also is a balckbelt and teaches self defense for women. A very basic coarse that is very to the point. Being one of her assistants in the pass i have been afforded the oppertunity to sit in and listen to many of the questions asked by women. It is amazing how many women think a poor sexual experiance constitutes rape. Another myth pushed foward by the feminazis.
Many women seem to believe that it is rape if they do not orgasm with their hookup partner for that night. Something that is real sad as most like their partner have had a few to many to drink.
It is important to nderstand that sex is something special between two people and not just a function of biology.
It is a shame that colleges spend all this time promoting sex on one hand then on the other claiming it is all rape. The view of the extreme on the issue. That penetration of any kind constitutes rape with a man.
If they only put this much energy and effort into the basics of education then maybe our workforce would be productive with newly graduated people. Instead of flooded with those who have no buisness behind a shovel or a desk.
Sadly, it’s the whole culture that’s the problem. The kids heading off to college now spent their youth watching things like “American Pie” where everyone’s ultimate goal was to have sex before graduation (High School Graduation!). While that may or may not be a students goal in real life, the movie romanticizes it making it seem like an the most important thing a teenager needs to focus on. Sure, kids at that age have the hormone rodeo going on, but I know that when I was that age, there were alot of things that were much more important to me and my peers than whether or not I could ‘get some’ before I graduated.
I’ll admit that I laughed at the movie, but deep down I knew that the movie was couching the acceptance of sexual promiscuity in a humorous guise. The same could be said of probably the majority of teen movies on the market in the past 20 years.
You could follow the trend a long way back I’m sure, but based on my age, I think “Revenge of the Nerds” was the first movie I saw that really showed this. Even though the movie theme was supposedly about changing sterotypes and the triumph of the ignored majority, the whole movie was about guys trying to ‘do it’ with their dream girls. (Although the ending did show that ‘making it’ had nothing to do with popularity)
Add to that the whole ’starlet’ party, show-the-press-the-crotch-shots mindset, driven by the media and Hollywood, and geared toward young people to make them idolize these sad starlets today.
This is why an ‘education’ is the last thing you should expect now-a-days at most Universities. Stick with a Tech School or Community College first.
My son is a freshman at a major university in VA. I had not had any real interaction with a college for some time until this past year. Its become abundantly clear that a great deal has changed since I went. The simple fact is that the University itself promotes and encourages casual sex as normal and healthy. This message began with freshman orientation in the dorms, which included the obligatory “a family can mean anything” indoctrination. The most recent event was the “Condom Olympics” funtion that was held in the common room of the dorm. Cakes were provided in the shape of penis and the students were encouraged to decorate the various cakes with M&Ms and twizzlers etc. to resemble a penis infected with STDs. Then they voted on the “best” cake. A second event was to taste flavored condoms that were passed out to determine the different flavors. My son said that he declined to participate since he never envisioned a scenario where a condom would come anywhere near his mouth so who cared what it tasted like. However, he said that a large number of girls and some guys were enthusiastic participants. I’m not naive and I certainly went as far as girls would let me go in college, but I never received what amounts to university sponsored encouragement to have sex. In this environment of cheapend physical intimacy it’s almost easy to see how someone could regard the act as “no big deal.”
WaPo is doing its part to try to counter the the failing U.S. public education system by citing some University of Pennsylvania researchers…
Now, don’t you feel better to know that U.S. students are, at least, “above average”, “no nation scored significantly higher than the United States”, our students “fell in roughly the middle of the pack”, “U.S. students were on par with the others in every subject” (What is “par”?) and “every Western country, not just the United States, lagged behind Japan in math and science”?
Well, my mind is at ease now. Thanks, WaPo. I don’t know what I would do without you to show just how stellar our educational rankings are.
WaPo points to other failing countries to justify our own shoddy performance? *sigh*
Oh, I think Crystal Magnum has done far more damage to actual rape victims than any of those authors. (Magnum is the woman who claimed she was raped in the Duke Lacross frame.) And it would help if there weren’t so many false accusations of rape. Which is part of what MacDonald, for one, is exposing.
This thread just underscores what I’ve previously said repeatedly.
It’s time for traditionalist, Western civ culture and society defenders to meet with busines and industry leaders and hammer out a plan (don’t want to use that word
“comprehensive”) for what should be taught in 1-12 and in college, so that we can have an educated citizenry and workforce; instead of the empty skulls currently coming out of so many of our colleges, on whom so much money has been wasted - simply, utterly wasted.
Not sure how to go about setting that up, but it has to be done.
If you paid me the tuition, room & board, and fee payments that these institutions are receiving, I bet I could, alone, give the students a far better practical, basic education than they are getting now…and, I’d be wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
Barry:
It’s so good to know the people who are most responsible for the failure of the public education system (academics) are out in full force to explain to us it’s not all that bad. Afterall…we could be lower than, say….Vietnam.
Where did we rank before, by the way? *crickets*
I’d like to know why those two things should be mutually exclusive.
Even if MacDonald is correct in suggesting that college rape statistics are overblown (which won’t get an argument from me), the idea that rape awareness and rape hotlines are bad things is dangerous. Anti-rape protests like Take Back the Night are somehow bad for universities? Empowering (alleged) victims of a heinous crime is really that bad for schools?
I guess I don’t see what the problem is.
By the way, an author that MacDonald quotes, Laura Sessions Stepp, is an absolute hack. Her book, “Unhooked” consists of interviews of an extremely small self-selected group of girls and young women. She goes after the conclusions she wants, not the reality on the ground. She has also perpetuated a horrible term: “gray rape.” Gray rape is the idea that if a woman does not put up enough of a fight in saying “No,” then there is a gray area of whether or not she was raped. Which is horrible. No matter how much of a fight a woman puts up, no means no. Or, even better, only yes means yes.
Stepp is from the DC area and I’ve been badgering her for years now. Anyone who cites her work really shouldn’t have their articles highly regarded.
Oh my God, the more MacDonald I read the worse she gets. Like:
Wow. First of all, a “hookup party”? Hahaha.
Second, just because a woman is drunk and engaging in sexual acts does not mean that she doesn’t have the power to withdraw consent or stop the sexual activity at, to put it euphamistically, second or third base. High probability of intercourse? Who cares? If she decides not to have sex and that wish is not respected, that is rape. Not “gray rape.” Not a mistake. Rape.
Folks, do not waste your time.
By his efforts at confusion, diversion, and obfuscation; by his efforts to change the focus of this thread; by his very words, the previous poster demonstrates that he will never understand.
Why allow the sense of this thread to be diverted?
For example, if we were discussing whether Muslim terrorist targets should be obliterated by bombing, why would we allow the focus of the discussion to be diverted to whether the Reconquista and the Crusades were violent?
As I learned some time ago from On My Soapbox:
JUST
IGNORE
HIM.
The crux of Mac Donald’s rape denial argument is:
The issue is that “feminists” want to say that any time a woman has sex when she would rather not is rape. McDonald wants to define rape as a virgin attacked by a man form a dark alley.
In between are the “gray areas”. Suppose the victim is married to the attacker or had been dating him? Suppose the attack was not violent but aided by drugs or alcohol?
Granite, I am not trying to change the focus of this thread. The article that we’re all commenting on suggests that Take Back the Night rallies and rape awareness on campus are unnecessary. Which is crazy.
Granite, I think it takes a special kind of person to not only vehemently disagree with me, but to be upset when you’re presented with a different world view. Your close-mindedness is stunning.
I merely am pointing out that at least one of MacDonald’s sources is deeply flawed and that her writing style is needlessly dramatic and overwrought. If rape statistics are overblown and the rape culture is overblown, fine. As I said before, no argument from me. But the piece devolves into a tsk-tsk but on why women shouldn’t drink and why adults shouldn’t be allowed to have their significant other in their dorm room overnight. What exactly does that have to do with rape?
Other lines suggest that MacDonald is making grand statements that have no basis in fact. “…it is inconceivable that a raped woman would voluntarily have sex again with the fiend who attacked her…” What? No it isn’t. Marital rape and acquaintance rape aren’t uncommon.
The point of rape awareness is that women should report any time they had sex when they said “no.” No matter how drunk she was. No matter how well she knew the perpetrator. Things like “gray rape” make it seem like there are gray areas here. There aren’t. And therein lies my beef with this article.
Someone disagreeing with me over the place of contraceptives in dorm rooms is one thing. It’s a different debate and I know from the Yale Week thread that no one agrees with me. But rape awareness is a bit more serious, don’t you think?
And Granite, grow up. If you don’t like disagreement, why on Earth do you take part in comment threads?
LGM, well put.
Although our different world view will disqualify us from having an opinion.
Womyn’s Studies 101:
A womyn can say yes and mean no.
a womyn can say maybe and mean no.
A womyn can say no and mean no.
A womyn can say no and mean yes.
A womyn can say maybe and mean no.
A man can’t say S#*T..
Max, only no means no. But that consent can be withdrawn at any time, even mid-coitus.
The movement that’s becoming more popular now is “yes means yes.” That takes away any ambiguity.
I don’t vehemently disagree (a little projection there, maybe? hmmm).
And, I have no problem with disagreement; actually, it’s comical to observe it sometimes, as in this case.
BTW, it did not take long for you to have to get to the bottom of your bag of tricks, and use the ad hominem “grow up.”
As Lisa Lubner would have said to Todd Delamuca, “That’s real mature, Todd.”
If that’s the best you’ve got, I’ve brought a cannon to a nerfball fight.
Silly me…by my troglodyte reasoning, I thought the thrust (pardon the pun) of this thread was supposed to be about colleges no longer educating - not whether this or that constitutes consent, or whether all-night parietals (as they were referred to when I was in college) are a good idea, or whether so and so author is a good source.
Your response, and that of your fellow worldview-holder, just prove my point: folks holding the opposite, secular, morally relativistic worldview will never, can never, and seemingly never want to understand.
The rules of belief in their worldview might be analogized to a mathematical system in which the square root of 100 is 12; or in which 2 plus 2 equals 7.
Just as they could never understand an actual, correct mathematical relationship, no matter how often it would be explained to them; so they would, and will - all together now - NEVER understand when traditionalists are talking about morality, personal responsibility, right and wrong, etc.; their clever, outraged, sometimes nasty protestations to the contrary.
First, LGM appears to be a math teacher. So careful with mathematical relationships.
The thread should be about the article. And the article is terrible. I’m just pointing out why it’s so fundamentally flawed. It’s based on MacDonald’s assumptions, flawed sources, and hypothetical gobbely-gook. Its treatment of campus rape is laughable. The suggestion is that women shouldn’t drink and that dorms shouldn’t let people have sleepovers. In other words, if a woman spends the night somewhere or drinks, there is an expectation of sex and therefore she is “asking for it.” Which is indefensible.
I just noticed this from comment #13 and wanted to make sure this got full attention:
What a stupid thing to think. “Stupid” might be a harsh word, but I challenge someone to come up with something better. No one is saying a poor sexual experience is rape. What people are saying is that having sex without consent (no matter if you’re drunk or if you’re wearing revealing clothing) is rape.
#23
no, the crux of the argument is that what’s being characterized as “rape” by a researcher is not to the subject. it’s the researchers projection.
On February 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am, Rusty said:
Max, only no means no. But that consent can be withdrawn at any time, even mid-coitus.
Withdrawn indeed…BWAHAHAHAHAA!
WarTip #10 —
You’re my “hero of the day”.
Just thought I would change the subject…getting tired of Rusty and Granite sniping at each other. Entertaining for a while, but, c’mon guys…
WarTip, your solution has the heavy stopping power, but that .44 Pug has got to be heavy - and intimidating. Which is a good thing when you are pointing it at someone, but from my experience, not so good for getting a woman to actually carry it regularly.
Very rarely does a woman actually have eviscerate an attacker with one shot. Usually, the fact that she just “planted a cap in his ass” does the job of getting him to stop. If not, she has 4-9 more shots to convince him. I’m not advocating for using a .22 (although effective with proper aim), but a simpler solution for the masses would be a .38 snubnose or a compact .380 or 9mm semiauto. Bottom line is that for most women to carry it regularly, it must be lightweight, easily concealable, and simple to use — and they have to feel “comfortable” using it.
How’s that for wandering off subject?
One of my all-time favorites has to be Michael Dukakis trying to show his support of the military in the infamous tank ride photo - that was pre-Kerry Tele-Tubbie suit.
Oooops. LOL
Wrong thread on that post.
Max, well played.
Barry F. said (#16):
You are so right. Kids are spending more time downloading music than learning anything useful in college.
I went to buy a calculator recently, and noticed on the package “allowed for the SAT/PMSQT tests”!!!! Holy Crap, Batman! They can take programmable calculators with advanced scientific functions into the SATs!! And they wonder why the old SAT scores have to have 100 points added to them to be the equivalent of the dumbed down SATs of today!
Have you met young people able to make change nowadays, or are the dependent on cash registers that tell what change to give (and have little pictures on the keys instead of numbers!)
Fewer and fewer American kids are taking math and science classes. My science classes in some Boston area colleges are mostly populated by foreign students!
Homeschooling students are routinely outperforming students from state sponsored schools. What does that tell you about the schools today and the liberals that make the programs?
America used to be the LEADER in the sciences both natural and technological. Nowadays, it is the Southeast and Far Eastern Asian kids that seem to be on the leading edge of science and technology.
But back to the point, feel good academics and enhanced self esteem give students the feeling that they can have whatever they want when they want it. They have no common sense or reasoning ability.
And we wonder why, in this age of AIDS, that kids are still having rampant unprotected sex? They were raised and schooled thinking that there were no consequences for actions, no penalties for wrong decisions, and expect that to apply to their entire lives.
#37 Dimsdale:
Sadly, you are absolutely correct.
Sure, but where’s a drunk, naked woman running down the hall going to keep that holstered?
(I believe the article used that description of a participant at a party…)
The way I read it, the article was about using inflated (and perhaps made up) statistics to continue to justify a whole rape industry.
All this rape crisis center stuff is making colleges safer for women. It should be possible for a 20 year old woman to be &*#^-%$!@d drunk in a mixed company dorm room without fear that someone will “take advantage of her”. A man does not expect to be violated any time he has a few too many.
It should be possible for an adult to walk in Central Park at night without getting mugged. In either case, the victim may have done something dangerous. Also in both cases a crime was committed the the perp should go to jail.
On February 25th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, lgm said:
All this rape crisis center stuff is making colleges safer for women. It should be possible for a 20 year old woman to be &*#^-%$!@d drunk in a mixed company dorm room without fear that someone will “take advantage of her”. A man does not expect to be violated any time he has a few too many.
okay. So. let me try and get your reasoning straight. It’s okay for a woman to make an ass of herself (not sure what you mean by that but i guess maybe acting provocatively in some way).. and she should not have to fear.. ok.. and a guy, because he’s a guy? doesn’t have to worry about being taken advantage of… I call BS…
besides the obvious incongruities in your statement. the woman gets drunk and can do as she pleases, so the guy gets drunk and his judgement is impaired, he “takes advantage ” in away that could arguably be rape or someone else could agree justa lttle too s aggressive… remember, he’s drunk too, but by your reasoning must be able to stay in complete control…
ugh
Being female and having graduated from a large public university (I got my advanced degree from a smaller Catholic school), I understand how as a girl you really do feel more vulnerable. It’s a fact of life that if you are going to be raped or God forbid murdered, it’s more likely to happen in your college years than at any other point of your existence, save for being elderly. I was not a party girl at all but I can certainly remember the guys who gave me the creeps, being followed, and getting threatening phone calls, not to mention having nasty things written on the dry erase board on my door. College kids are sloppy about security. My dorm building was locked every night at 10:00 p.m. but the doors were always propped with pizza boxes or whatever because people would go out without their keycards.
But the victimology cult on campuses have no real interest in making girls safer. If they were, self-defense classes would include some time at the firing range. They’d tell girls that they have to take control over their safety and do basic things like lock their doors, not go off with guys they don’t know, and don’t get blotto at parties and bars, especially if they are without any sober friends who can make sure they get home safely.
I went to one of those Take Back The Night rallies. Who’s for rape anyway? But instead of it being a rally against rape, it was a big fat man-bashing fest. It nauseated me to no end. Even back then I knew not every hetero boy was a rapist ready to get you if given the chance.
The victimology cult is out only to emasculate straight young men and to keep their schtick going. What would they do with themselves if women took control of their safety and the administration stepped up security on campus?
Greenfairie, great points. Max, not so much. It doesn’t matter if a guy is drunk. No means no. Even if the girl is wasted. Even is she has your pants unzipped. Once consent is withdrawn, it’s rape. No amount of intoxication makes it ok.
Rusty… so a guy is supposed to be able to handle himself when he’s drunk?…. but a girl, not so much… got it…
I can’t stand listening to either side, the feminists or the anti-feminists. Both have done damage to the actual victims of rape. Both have made it difficult for a victim to come forward. Both need to STFU and take rape victims out from underneath their platforms against each other.
Kendra #45
sounds pretty naive, also aggresive with the STFu stance.. You’re a liberal right? …also, t’s great that I now know what you “can’t stand”… though I’m not sure why I needed that info…
Yes. A guy is supposed to not rape someone when he is drunk. A drunk woman who says “no” is handling herself just fine.
rusty said:
Yes. A guy is supposed to not rape someone when he is drunk.
what we are talking about here is the definition of rape.. but thanks for portraying me as a moron who thinks rape is ok…
On the handgun portion of this discussion, I like the smaller 9mm as well. Some,(many?) of the ladies seem to lack the strength to chamber that first round. Be sure she can do this quickly and consistently before purchasing a weapon for your wife or daughter.
Girl says no or is too incapacitated to consent = rape.
Every. Single. Time. There is no gray area.
On February 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm, countrybumpkin said:
On the handgun portion of this discussion, I like the smaller 9mm as well. Some,(many?) of the ladies seem to lack the strength to chamber that first round. Be sure she can do this quickly and consistently before purchasing a weapon for your wife or daughter.
maybe a good old nice .38 revolver?… good stopping power and i don’t think she’d have that problem with first-round trigger strength…People poo-poo the .22 or .25 cal stopping power but at close range it would certainly give a potential rapist incentive to leave off the attack… (assuming a polite “no” doesn’t do the trick…)
Max’ I agree that a round or two from a .22 would take an attackers mind off sex.
My fear is that it would change his mind to murder. If you really believe you need deadly force to protect yourself a small caliber may not do the job.
A .38 revolver would be a good choice but it might be harder to conceal. The last place to carry is in your purse although you probably don’t carry one of those.
Try this on for size. Looking to marry the girl? Have a family with her? Are you about to do something you will be proud to share with your parents?
For chrissakes already, be a man, not a pig!
It’s not that a drunken “No” doesn’t mean no, (it does) but that being drunk can impair judgement. The morning after “What was I thinking” implies that the alcohol may have caused you to make an extremely poor choice. The article is making the case that many in the “rape industry” would classify that as rape since your judgement was impaired, when it is not.
Yes Rusty, a woman should be able to get so drunk she passes out in a dorm without any ill effects or foul play befalling her, but the reality is, if she drinks that much, she may choose to say yes when she may have said no if sober. That is not rape, it’s poor judgement.
This thread has more troll comments than anyother MM post. (IMHO!)
GSP
That’s not rape. A “woozy” Yes is still a Yes. Although I admit it’s a precarious situation.
Part of the problem I have with writers like Stepp and MacDonald - and I think this thread confirms this - is that they are diluting what rape really means. If a girl says No or is too intoxicated to consent (passed out) or if they initiated sexual contact but said No to sex, they shouldn’t have to wonder if it wasn’t rape because they were drunk or the initial aggressor.
Those writers make them wonder.
Sorry to burst your bubble Max but I’m no liberal. What I am though, is a rape survivor and am willing to bet that I’ve read more articles like MacDonald (Roiphe, Paglia) than you.
I will preface this by stating that while in college, I once lost a relationship due to rape (the girl I was dating was raped at a party while I was at work). I am sensitive to the true victims.
I’ve now worked for 3 years in a civilian capacity for a college town police department. One thing for which I was unprepared is the amount of alleged sexual assaults that have arisen from the hookup culture rampant among a certain age group on and off college campuses. I can attest to the resources spent on taking reports from and investigating alcohol-fueled morning after regret-filled sexual encounters. One recent example involved a victim who enjoyed an off-and-on again “friends with benefits” relationship with a fellow student who, on this occasion, prior to their liaison, had made it explicitly clear thru text messages that their visit that night would be solely for sex. She later learned that he allowed at least 2 friends to watch in the dark, from his closet. No charges of unlawful sexual contact (possible if being “peeped” or if one is subject to a flasher) could be brought forward, however, because the “victim” is still hoping her “friend” will come around and that it will evolve into “the real thing.” There are too many other similar instances to note, such as the young woman who only reported her sexual assault after finding that her electronics had been stolen from her apartment by the visiting non-students with whom she and her roommate had engaged in consensual group sex. She intimated to officers that she assumed her crime would get higher police priority if a sexual assault was added, despite having first called 911 for the robbery.
False accusations aren’t being disputed. They are a fact as is the availability of the rape drug and frat boys so immature that they need to get a woman drunk in order to get them to say ‘yes’.
We also have rapists who are let off because judges and DA’s are more interested in their relationship with their victim rather than in the crime that occurred. In (I believe it was) Italy a judge decided a woman couldn’t possibly have been raped because she was wearing jeans. In Pennsylvania 10 years ago an assistant DA, whom I wrote to, had a case dismissed because while the victim said no she was too afraid to physically fight and that lack of a physical fight back was cited as the reason for dismissing the case.
In Philadelphia a judge only charged a man with “theft of services” after he raped a prostitute at gunpoint. Apparently the judge erroneously decided the prostitute didn’t mind and the rapist wasn’t a danger to anyone else.