This woman-shaped piece of meat has made the crucial mistake of reporting her rape. She will be punished.
Here’s an interesting change. After all these stories of women being prosecuted or threatened with legal action for pressing rape charges, today we have a story of a woman being prosecuted for not pressing rape charges.
You all remember that back in 2005, a 17-year-old girl was actually prosecuted for reporting her rape. Not only prosecuted but convicted of a crime — and all because the state decided it couldn’t prove the case against her attackers.
And with the Duke case, as you all know, every sexist twit this side of the Andromeda galaxy took to the intertubes to demand that the victim in that case also be prosecuted, again for the “crime” of reporting a crime that the state decided it couldn’t prove.
And in the De Anza case, a teenage girl who was gang-raped by a sports team was publicly castigated for, again, reporting a crime that the state decided it couldn’t prove.
Anybody see a pattern?
The increasingly loud message is clear: if you’re raped, you’d sure as hell better not press charges. If the state can’t prove the case, or even if the prosecutors decide they don’t believe you, you could go to jail! And shit, even if there’s airtight evidence, like a goddamn videotape of the assault, the defense attorneys will still crucify you and make your life a living hell and very possibly succeed in getting your attackers acquitted. Definitely better not to press charges.
Now, in a fascinating development, an Air Force woman who has obviously taken this message to heart is being court-martialed for not pressing charges.
The woman in question explained her decision this way: “Under enormous stress and after consultation with the legal office, I made the decision not to testify — the pressure of the judicial process was too much for me, and I felt like no one was looking out for my interests.”
In other words, the crucifixion party had started up and she decided to opt out. The usual crap was already being slung: she was promiscuous, she wore skin-tight clothes, she asked for it, yadeyadeyade. Damn if I blame her for bailing. She’d already been raped once and didn’t feel like repeating the experience. (Note, by the way, that this mess is going on in North Carolina, home of the Duke travesty. Not a good state for rape victims. )
But clearly she erred by not fully apprehending the rape zeitgeist, which is that if you’re raped, you’d better not report it at all. If you do, you will be punished. One way or another.
It’s a lose-lose scenario. If you press on with the case, you’ll be destroyed. If you don’t press on, you’ll be destroyed. The only people who don’t seem to be getting destroyed in all this is the men who are committing the goddamn rapes.
I’m reminded of the Catch-22 we saw with the street attack case, where the women who defended themselves and their friend were sent to jail. Sent to jail! And yet if a woman doesn’t fight back, that’s automatically proof that she asked for it, whatever “it” is.
I think the key here is to be found in that recent ruling that the word “rape” cannot be uttered in a rape trial. It doesn’t exist. There’s no such thing as rape anymore. There’s just “sex,” and a world full of lying sluts.
They’re trying to turn the clock back, kids. This is the patriarchy, fangs bared and poison dripping, ready to take back what it’s lost. For thirty-five years women have been talking about sovereignty over their own bodies, and the big P is pushing back. Time to get the meat under control. The MRAs are the vanguard, and every moment that they’re not whacking off to porn movies where women are abused and degraded and made to wear toilet seats around their necks, they’re trolling blogs and sending letters to the editor and spreading the word that women are sluts and liars, that rape never happens, that feminism has gone too far, gotta get the uppity bitches back in line. Fuck that noise.
Posted by Violet in Rape, Recommended
