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I'm not drawing any judgements. I don't automatically think that the Duke players raped her. There are some inconsistencies in her story, yes, whatever.
But I'm not going to discredit this young lady, either, solely based on her job as a stripper or the strongly misguided notion that women cry rape to 'get even with people' or 'teach someone a lesson.' The highly publicized case of Tawana Brawley makes it look like black women do that on the regular. In reality, how many other news stories can you pull up where women faked a rape?
It doesn't happen that often, because of the backwards chauvinistic ideas that many men (and sometimes women!) espouse as regards rape cases:
1) That strippers, prostitutes, promiscuous women, and women who are scantily clad somehow "ask for it"
2) That women lie about rapes on the regular for some ridiculous benefit
Why the hell would you be ostracized from community life -- especially by pointing the finger at wealthy white male lacrosse players who most likely can afford the best legal support money can buy -- to get some invisible and imagined "benefit"? Tawana Brawley was trying not to get in trouble with her dad. She was 15.
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