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Rape
- How Do Rapists Get Away With Doing What They Do?
- Rapists exhibit a range of violence, depending on their own
motivations and history. The most dangerous is the "anger
retaliatory rapist," who is furious at women for real or imagined
wrongs, and lashes out periodically by raping a woman victim and
often killing her afterwards. However, it's more common for rapists
to simply threaten violence, or to employ a small amount of violence,
just enough to get his victim to comply sexually.
In most cases, a rapist is a skilled con artist. Women love him
because he's so charming, which gives him the ability to convince a
woman to be alone with him so he can victimize her. It's typical for
rapists to attend rape prevention seminars or read detective
magazines, to learn what techniques police use to catch rapists.
- How Frequently Do Women Lie About or Mis-Identify Rapists?
- Unfortunately, false and mistaken accusations of rape are not
uncommon. Four to seven percent of all rape charges are simply lies
-- brought by women either seeking attention for themselves or to get
even with a man for some real or imagined wrong.
When a woman is raped by a stranger and subsequently identifies the
rapist, 25-30% of the time she identifies the wrong man. (This is
actually not a surprising figure: Over 25% of eyewitness
identifications in all crimes are wrong.)
Many men who were wrongly identified and jailed as rapists in the 80s
are now being freed from jail as they use newly developed DNA
technology to prove that they could not possible have committed the
crimes of which they were convicted.
- What's The Feminist Position On Rape?
- Feminists and women activists, seeking additional funding for
social workers, rape counselors and counseling centers, frequently
wildly exaggerate the incidence of rape. The most famous of these
exaggerations is the claim that one in four girls gets raped in
college, even though the actual rape incidence is a small fraction of
1%. It's not uncommon for researchers to receive pressure or threats
to force them to report much a higher incidence of rapes than actually
occur.
Most feminist rape policy has the side effect of harming real
rape vicims by making them less credible.
In order to further inflate rape statistics, feminists use a variety
of arguments to claim that ordinary consensual sex is sometimes rape.
Some feminists claim that any sex is rape unless the woman initiates
sex, and does so out of desire. Others claim that any consensual sex
between a male boss and female employee is "constructive rape," since
the employee has no choice. (We don't hear this so much any more
since the Clinton sex scandals occurred.) Another claim is that
consensual sex is rape if the woman has had even a single glass of
wine, since the alcohol makes the woman incapable of giving meaningful
consent to sex.
Feminists use such arguments to inflame supporters and generate
monetary contributions and government funding of feminist counselors,
but these arguments also trivialize rape, and make the real
rape victim less believable, and more likely to have her claims of
rapes challenged.
Finally, feminists destroy the credibility of real rape victims by
claiming that rape is a "political crime," used by men to keep women
down. For example, feminist Marilyn French claims (without evidence)
that rape is "normal," and that it's "so automatic is society's
acceptance of male rapists as a fact of life that journalists often
conceal this form of male predation." Remarks like these, which are
very common among feminists, imply that rape is not even a real crime
(since political crimes are not real crimes), and further hurt
real rape victims.
My view is that real rape victims have been terribly hurt by false
and exaggerated feminist claims, and that women's organizations
should reverse direction and start treating rape as a serious crime,
rather than just a fundraising tool.
- What Happens To Women Who Lie About Rape?
- This situation is made even worse by prosecutors who refuse to
prosecute women who make malicious false charges of rape, thus
creating the impression that a woman looking for vengeance can make a
false charge of rape essentially "for free."
Once again, it's real rape victims who suffer. Since a woman
who makes a false rape accusation, even one that destroys a man's
life, is simply forgiven and sent on her way, she makes it appear
that all rape claims are false. A man accused of rape can simply
say, "This is just like the situation with Jane Smith two years ago.
She made wild rape accusations that turned out to be false, and no
one even punished her. Women are always making false rape claims,
and the one against me is no different."
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