This? THIS disgust beyond words!

[sparkindarkness]

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5htQjSre-hYFZBuou5srqd2HJxgVA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7556958.stm

NO this woman did NOT contribute towards her own rape - no matter if she had been sucking up an entire brewery's contents. I don't care if she was PARALYTIC in the gutter. SHE DID NOT CONTRIBUTE TO HER OWN RAPE

She was sexually assaulted. She was raped. Someone forced sex on her that she did not want. This man assaulted her - and NOTHING she did can change that. NOTHING she did, NO state she was in in any way encourages, influences or otherwise causes a man to sexually assault a woman. That's ENTIRELY in his court, his responsibility, his doing. She never asked to be raped. She never causes her rape. She never encourages her rapist to rape. She never brings rape upon herself. No matter how VULNERABLE she is to rape it is never ever her fault or her responsibility because she was targetted.

A WOMAN CAN NEVER BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OWN RAPE. Even implying that she can be even in part be responsible for it is utterly without merit and revoltingly inexcusable.

Comments

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

No-one, man or woman, is ever responsible for their own rape (just to be clear, because men are raped too, and the reporting rate for that is even lower than that for male on female rape).

However, alcohol can be a huge factor in a man believing he has consent when in fact he hasn't, or as someone said above, a woman actually giving consent and then regretting it once she (or maybe both of them) sobers up.

The reports I heard on the radio said this was a 'stranger rape' but didn't give more detail for fear of identifying the woman, so we don't know whether this was someone who attacked her in the street (as most commenters seem to have assumed) or someone she met that night in a bar, felt up in the taxi on the way home, and who perhaps believed he had consent.

Alcohol impairs good judgement - for both parties. Where sex is involved it lowers inhibitions, and that can have devastating results - for both parties. Therefore GETTING DRUNK IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Male rape is one of the ultimate hidden crimes. Gods forgive us from producing a culture that makes people ashamed of being attacked

Form what I understand in this case her drunk was spiked which pretty much leaves little doubt in the matter

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

That assumes her drink was spiked by the same person who raped her, and with that intention - but that's actuaqlly a pretty big assumption.

I've had drinks 'spiked' by well-meaning friends who bought me doubles instead of single measures (and in Scotland, that meant 70ml of spirits per drink, nearly 3 times the strength of an English single 25ml measure). Their intention was simply to get me drunk to celebrate passing my exams. Luckily they were also sensible enough to escort me home, but if they'd left me in the pub with my head down the toilet I dread to think what might have happened. I get very amourous when I'm pissed, and someone could easily have taken advantage of that.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I was talking to one of my (former) roommates about male rape... evidently, according to US courts (/rolls eyes), male rape is nonexistent, because, as defined by the courts, rape is penetration of the vagina.

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She and I both believe we need that shit changed, but with how backwards the US is... ::sighs:: If a man is forced against his will, that's still rape. He's still as violated as a woman.

...and this is why I would love to get an insertable quisinart for my junk. /generic angryface.

::loves on Spark::