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Originally Posted by fantASTic
Sorry to make this so long, but the whole 'rape fad' that's been going on lately really pisses me off. I feel like far too many lives have been ruined by the premise that "the woman in the rape case is automatically a victim". This basically says that the man is automatically guilty, like in the article posted on the first page of this thread. I don't think that most date rape is actual rape - I think that a lot of women, due to moral and societal pressure, feel guilty or awkward for having slept with a man and try to get around that by saying, "I didn't really want to do it...he made me!" This really hurts women - and men! - who WERE legitimately raped, because it makes people (yes, like me) question them when they deserve to be believed. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell, because it's almost always he-said she-said. Making a ridiculously large number of sexual interactions into rape only mocks the victims who were raped, and that's terrible. Get real, people - it's not always rape just because she says it is.
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Not to mention that it puts a woman into a victim mentality when she would be much better off if she would say "he was an asshole, but I was responsible too, I screwed up, I'm going to move on."
Not to mention that it makes ALL male/female interactions a walking on eggshells proposition.
I could talk about this for days, but I won't.
As far as the age of consent...if the girl says it was consensual, believe her. You can't say that you believe someone age 8 when they say their parent abused them, and then turn it around and say that a 16 or 17 year old is lying about consensual sex.
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