Hey, Can A Woman "Ask To Get Raped"?

Pretenders singer and songwriter Chrissie Hynde has no regrets. At least about her much-attacked comments on rape in an interview published last weekend.

“They’re entitled to say whatever they want,” she told The Washington Post on Thursday about her critics. It was her first phone interview since the furor. “Do I regret saying it? I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about it.”

Hynde, 63, whose memoir “Reckless: My Life as a Pretender” arrives in bookstores Tuesday, said she doesn’t read things written about her.

“I’ve just had some e-mails from friends saying, ‘Do you want to hide at my place?’ ” she said.

After a little resistance, Hynde, who released her first Pretenders album in 1980, listened as the Sunday Times paragraph that sparked the controversy was read to her, a statement that ends with her saying, “If you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him.”

“Sounds like common sense,” she said Thursday.

But what about people who were offended?

“If you don’t want my opinion, don’t ask me for it,” she said.
OMG! PERFECT!

She paused.

“At the moment, we’re in one of the worst humanitarian crises in our lifetime,” she said. You see that picture of “a Turkish policeman carrying the body of a 3-year-old boy who got washed up on the shore. These are the heartbreaking images we have and we’re talking about millions of displaced persons and people whose families have been destroyed and we’re talking about comments that I allegedly made about girls in their underwear.”
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The reason we’re talking about rape at all is because of what happens with you and that biker gang. They take you into a kind of abandoned building, and you’re effectively raped.

“I would say there was an element of sexual assault, but frankly, if you go into the club house of the world’s most notorious bikers, it’s not going to be for a Bible reading.”


But you also have a second situation where you’re hitchhiking and you get drugged and end up naked in this guy’s place not really knowing what’s happening.

“But I knocked on the guy’s car door and said, ‘Can you give me a lift?’ to a stranger. What was I thinking?”

Fair enough, but on a basic level, I feel bad reading about what happened when you were younger. You have a daughter. I have a daughter. I don’t want her in that house with those bikers.

“I know, but most people aren’t as stupid as me. I wouldn’t expect most people to do some of the stuff I did. But then again, most people don’t get to be a rock star, either. We have to walk the plank. I don’t think that’s a sign of intelligence, I don’t know what it is a sign of. I’m not saying I was asking for it. It wasn’t the same as walking down a street in the middle of a nice evening and somebody dragging you into a bush with a knife in your throat.”

Hero sandwiches aside, there's nothing heroic about your routine. Your modus operandi is to attack defenceless females. Grow up, chum.

The problem with being so clueless on one subject is that your opinion on all the other subjects becomes worth less.

We still have the right to go out.
We still have the right to have a drink.
We still have the right to say no.
And, we still have the right to not expect someone to attempt to rape us, wait for us, bait us, bullshit.

We still have that right.

How about men stopping their raping

those not sober enough to give any sort of consent

Footnote reports rapes are going onto a four decades low.

Police: Number of sexual assaults in Annapolis already doubles last year's total
September 8, 2015

With two reported rapes in Annapolis in less than 48 hours over Labor Day Weekend, the number of rapes and attempted rapes in the city this year has more than doubled from all of last year..

There have been 10 rapes or attempted rapes this year, compared to four last year, police said.

But the department is taking preventative steps, said spokeswoman Cpl. Amy Miguez.

An officer recently attended instructor school for R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) and the department will begin offering classes for women in the coming months, Miguez said.

The department also does community outreach about safety on an ongoing basis, Miguez said.

In April, a list of safety tips was issued to the public after an attempted rape behind St. Mary's Parish and Schools.

Officers also are encouraging people to be aware of their surroundings and "think about safety" while they are out and about, Miguez said..

"Annapolis is a safe city, but not immune to these crimes," she said.

As is the case nationally, a majority of the victims in Annapolis — seven of the 10 this year — have been sexually assaulted by someone they know, Miguez said....
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http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/ph-ac-cn-bay-ridge-rape-0909-20150908-story.html

County reports big increase in rapes last year
By Arek Sarkissian
Staff writer
May 20, 2015

Alachua County saw a 44 percent increase in forcible rapes last year, which some law enforcement officials said was the result of more victims having the courage to speak up.

Data released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed that agencies in Alachua County fielded 164 reports of rape in 2014, which was an increase from the 114 reported in 2013.

The Gainesville Police Department fielded the majority of those rape reports, which agency spokesman Officer Ben Tobias said was the result of a campaign toward bringing forward more victims of acquaintance rape, which generally occurs in social settings.

“Our area does have a problem with alcohol and acquaintance rapes, as most college towns do,” Tobias said. “We have tried different approaches including prevention aimed toward victims and direct messages to potential offenders.”

Tobias said one clear message to possible offenders was encouraging victims to speak up.

“Why was rape up last year? Because we asked and encouraged victims to come forward,” Tobias said. “We continue to do so.”

The FDLE data show GPD took 102 rape reports last year, which was 65 percent more than the 62 taken in 2013. The agency was followed by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, which took 50 rape reports last year, and 45 reports in 2013.

Statewide numbers showed a 5.4 percent increase in rape cases in 2014 and a 1.7 percent increase in 2013. A half percent decrease was reported in 2012, the data states...
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20150520/ARTICLES/150529933

Campus Rape Reports Are Up, And Assaults Aren't The Only Reason
April 30, 2014 5:24 PM ET
Joseph Shapiro

The number of "forcible rapes" that get reported at four-year colleges increased 49 percent between 2008 and 2012. That's the finding of an analysis by NPR's Investigative Unit of data from the Department of Education.

That increase shows that sexual assault is a persistent and ugly problem on college campuses. But there's also a way to look at the rise in reports and see something positive: It means more students are willing to come forward and report this underreported crime.

"It's a good thing that more victims are reporting because they're getting the help and support they need from their institutions," says Daniel Carter, a veteran advocate for better campus safety laws.
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http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/308276181/campus-rape-reports-are-up-and-there-might-be-some-good-in-that

Reported Rapes Up 14 Percent in San Diego: SANDAG Report
By Monica Garske

Despite a 5 percent drop in overall violent crime in San Diego County, reported rapes were up by 14 percent last year compared to 2013, according to SANDAG’s most recent annual report.

According to SANDAG’s findings, the 2014 increase “may reflect the greater inclination by survivors to report the crime and not necessarily an increase in the number of actual offenses.”...
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/SANDAG-Reported-Rapes-2014-Increase--San-Diego-County--304597401.html

No, schmuck, reported rapes are on the increase.

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/14/7214149/the-fbis-finally-collecting-modern-rape-stats

with standard state sexual assault laws, notably removes references to gender;

Starting in 2013, the agency now defines rape as "penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." The new wording, which is more or less in line with standard state sexual assault laws, notably removes references to gender; ditches "forcible" in favor of "without the consent of the victim" (an acknowledgment that a victim doesn't have to physically fight an attacker for a rape to occur); includes sex acts that aren't intercourse; and notes that penetration with an object, not just a body part, can be rape.

The first set of data collected under the new standard has just been released. It's too early to draw firm conclusions based on last year's data — several states, including California and New York, were still using the old definition of rape in 2013.

But using a sample of data from 14 states that reported rapes that fell under both the old definition and the new definition, the FBI came up with an estimate of how many cases had gone uncounted in the UCR. Their conclusion: an estimated 40 percent of rapes (including rapes of men, rape with an object, and non-vaginal rape) were left out of official FBI statistics until last year.