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Should A Rape Victim Be Obligated To Report Her Attacker?W


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Can rape actually be a black or white subject? Are there are any gray areas in regard to rape?
What is your opinion on this extremely touchy and sensitive issue.
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6 responses // Should A Rape Victim Be Obligated To Report Her Attacker?W

  • well, there is also "borderline rape".

    it is when i women and a man are both mentaly impaired and go to bed with each other.

    when the women thinks she is raped, she is basicly always right in the court of law.

    the man is senteced with the usual charges and locked away.

    do you think this is fair?

    i think its bullshit.
    pablohoney
  • I think women who've been raped have a moral obligation to report it. The creep could do it again to somebody else, they should be stopped.

    But I do think that there needs to be some kind of protection for innocent people (usually men or young men) from being charged with rape. It's not fair that girls can pretty much cry rape and who-ever they point the finger at gets charged.

    In my opinion, if you're 16 or 17 and he's 18 and you both know what you're doing, its not rape.
    If you were just really drunk and regretted it the next day... its NOT rape. That's just... you purposefully putting yourself in a situation where you make bad choices and then taking revenge on some innocent person.

    I've never been raped, but I was hanging out with friends one night when I was about 16 (not drinking) and was talking with a boy my age I'd just met that night. Everyone in the party went upstairs and this guy I didn't really know and I were left alone. He was cute and we were standing there flirting. Out of nowhere he pushed me against the wall and started kissing me and about 1 second later he was pulling my pants off.
    I look back on it now, and I have to laugh. I honestly think he was just an inexperienced guy who didn't really know... what he was doing.
    I pushed him off me, yanked my pants up and ran up stairs. I was shaken, but not hurt, and he didn't try and stop me from running away.
    What was that? Was he trying to rape me? I dont think so, but I was CERTAINLY getting forced into a sexual situation that I wasn't interested in.

    I can understand how quickly and unexpectedly this kind of thing can happen... but I think sometimes it's just a misunderstanding and people need to realize that when you charge somebody with a serious crime, you'd better know what you're doing.
    squidteeth
  • Moral obligation to report it is all very well, but as the legal system seems to assume that women are most likely lying (thanks to the media only ever reporting rape cases when the co-called victim was actually making it up; an incredibly rare occurrence), rape convictions in the UK are at a shockingly low 3%, and rape is very low down on the social agenda (did you know there are more lap dancing clubs in the UK than rape crisis centres?) you can understand women being nervous of the kind of response they're going to get, and the unsympathetic treatment they may well be subjected to if they report a rape...
    LindseyIndigo
  • I completely agree with LindseyIndigo - it is not a matter of FORCING women to report rape, but of decreasing the stigma and shame attached to it. We need to create an environment in which it is 'easier' (for lack of a better term) for women to talk about their experiences and in which they are actually taken seriously.
    JanaPokana
  • Exactly Jana!
    LindseyIndigo
  • I guess I didn't know that there was such an issue with reporting the crime, as the few times I've ever known somebody to report one it's been treated very seriously, with swift action on the person in question, nor have they been treated as though they should be ashamed of anything.

    If you're raped, and you go immediatly to the hospital or to authorities, they'll take care of you and they can get physical evidence that you've been raped, which will help your case. Not to mention that if it was a case of date rape, and you wait 3 months to report it, they might think you're just come jilted ex, trying to get back at him for cheating on you or something.

    The faster you report something like that, the more likely your attacker will be charged. Women who wait, are just making their cause more difficult. Without physical evidence, its harder to catch the person who did this to you, making it so that they can go on and do it again.

    If it happened to me, you can bet your ass I'd be at the hospital as soon as possible, making a statement.
    squidteeth

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