Rebuttal To False Rape Post: Why Is It That Rape Is Treated As A Matter of Opinion

[shondradawson]

rather than a crime?

It is not a coincidence that the false accusations of rape make headlines far more than the actual convictions of rape. In fact, charges of rape actually leading to conviction are rare, and this fact has been true for centuries. I should like to think in the 21st century that we all have some fair understanding of the history of Westurn culture, particularly the inhumane treatment of women and the legal statutes that sanctioned and continue to sanction it.

Whether you are a man or a woman...how can anyone take a charge of rape with an insouciant grin and a cynical shrug? "Oh, you know women...heh, heh, heh..." or "Oh, you know men, tsk, tsk, tsk." I tire of the chuckle, the giggle, the sheepish comments when you address both men and women about sexuality. At what age can you speak about sex without chuckling, giggling, raising your eyebrows or flipping your hair? At what point can the issues of sexual pathology be discussed without latent resentment against the opposite sex seeping through every word?

I tire of this ongoing mockery of controversy...is a home is burglarized, the owner is not asked to prove she owns the home, is not asked to prove she invited the burglar in, is not asked to prove what was stolen was there before. The defendant is asked to prove he was not there, he is not in possession of the alleged stolen property. In short...why is the man never asked to prove he didn't rape the woman? He is only asked to prove the sex was consensual: easy enough to establish, if you simply don't believe her...

This is the gist of many rape cases that end in acquittal. Again, the albeit few convictions don't make the headlines, because they don't make good justifications to maintain the status quo. The convictions force the public to confront gender/sexual attitudes that some men refuse to change and we can't make them. Other men call them bastards, jerks, assholes, etc. Women call them rapists, molesters, stalkers, wife-beaters, but only in secret. If women call those names aloud, other men call the bastards, jerks, and assholes...victims. Why?

I have heard an attorney friend of mine express his great disgust at the males on a jury enjoying a taped rape enough to think the woman subjected must have enjoyed it, too. I understand that women on a jury can judge that a woman wasn't "pretty enough" for a man to want to rape her.

The woman changed her story. I wonder how many posters are aware that when a woman's case looks like (too often) it won't win, the woman "changes her mind," to avoid being sent to jail for "false accusations." Often, the tapes are not confiscated by the police at the time of the charge: many times, they are produced by the defense attorney after they have been in the possession of the accused, long enough to "cut and edit." Consider this: the victim can change her story...but not because she was lying.

If alcohol is involved, even if the woman wasn't drinking, a rape trial ends in acquittal because the man was...

If a rape victim is in any way acquainted with the accused, the rape trial ends in acquittal...

If a rape victim is in any way sexually attractive (it is common for prosecuting attorneys to advise their clients not to wear any makeup or fancy hairstyle, to modulate their vocal tones, and to not appear "approachable"), the rape trial ends in acquittal...

There was a case of a blind woman raped whose trial ended in acquittal because, being blind, the judge failed to comprehend how she could "see" she was being raped...

Case in point: there are women here who have never accused a man of rape. There are men here who have never been accused of rape. This is true for most respective women and men, yet sexual relations are had between men and women every day. So it stands for the women who cry rape and the men accused of it...it stands to show something went very wrong. Now to begin to establish whether or no the wrong was against the law...and who the real victim is.

It does no one any favors to point out how many dishonest women there are and how many honorable men there are when confronting the crime of rape. Nor is it to anyone's benefit to point out how many sexually liberated women there are and how many sexually repressed men there are when confronting the crime of rape. What is the point of such dialogue? In a court of law, what you think or how you feel or choose to believe about women and/or men is irrelevant...

Though it has been considered as much, rape is a crime and not a matter of opinion.