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She suggests that, if we want to rely on the victim’s statement that she did not give consent as sufficient – and not insist on a beyond reasonable doubt standard – then sentences for rape could be reduced to recognise a lower standard of proof. “It is the savagery of the sentence that pushes juries toward extending the benefit of the doubt.”
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“I have seen the police working up a rape case trying desperately hard to build it up so it will stand up in court – and wasting their time,” she said. “The burden of proof is too high and that’s because the tariff is too onerous. Rape is a daily crime, it’s not spectacular. What we need is a coherent law of sexual assault.”
What we need is a coherent law of sexual assault.”
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If women can argue for this long about what is or is not rape, then how the fuck do you expect men to accept a chance of loosing their entire lifes as a result?
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I did. It is MY ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE for something you fags cannot even clearly define. Fuck you, you deserve the rape, if you don't care about lives of the good men out there.
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Tell me.
Do women ever cry genuinely, or is it all just a show for a camera?
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*unironically thinking I care about approval of some spinster
Name calling is useless here. The only way you could make it less effective would be to show your fat 60year old face.
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And obviously, if you still believe being incel is the worst fate a man can encounter, you have never seen a miror.
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Oh no... The guy promissed me a career, and I played only in 3 ironman movies and the most expensive movie of all time... But I didn't get a main role in that one, so I will still call it a rape...
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On Rape provides more subtleties than this bald statement. As she points out, rape often occurs without visible injuries, is rarely the stereotypical violent assault by a stranger, but is “always an evil”.
As Greer says , far too often the woman herself is unable to identify what happened as rape when the rapist is a man she knows and perhaps even loves. Not because she wasn’t violated – she most definitely was – but because women are accustomed to uncaring behaviour from men, and men are trained to dismiss empathy and thoughtfulness as unmanly.
Greer describes it as the contested ground of “giving in or giving consent” and presents a compelling argument about the conflict this presents for a criminal justice underpinned by the principles of a presumption of innocence and proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Women who have given in but not consented may not necessarily experience this rape as trauma but, as Greer says, they will always suffer damage. Perhaps part of their confusion is that this is not the narrative we give to rape victims.
Greer’s efforts to demystify rape and explore the wide variety of circumstances and responses to rape is not doing victims a disservice. It opens discussion to include women who aren’t sure they’ve been raped but do know they’ve been dehumanised by partners who treated sex as an entitlement.
Her greatest failing might not be in the concepts she’s presenting but in her inability to explain herself to a generation which understands the power of words to cause harm and is fearless in its rejection of careless language. The obligation is always on the writer to convey meaning, not the reader to interpret ill-expressed ideas.
He's around feminists all day. He's talking about a certain male beauty in a subversive way.
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