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

There is really only one change I would like to see, and that is the "rape shield law"

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There is really only one change I would like to see, and that is the "rape shield law".

Jameis Winston Case Just One Instance In Broader Climate of Rape and College Football
By Ty Duffy
November 21, 2013

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was accused of sexual battery. Recent reporting suggests the alleged victim dropped the allegations after inactivity and “big football town” pressure from the Tallahassee Police Dept. The story, if true, is disturbing. Though, it’s important to remember this is a drop in a much larger bucket with football. The only thing unusual is the man accused happens to be the Heisman front-runner.

Rape, of any sort, is under-reported. RAINN estimates there are 237,868 sexual assaults per year, with 60 percent going unreported. A new National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence survey conducted by the CDC, using better questioning, estimates the true number per year to be around 1.27 million. Reasons are varied. A criminal process that begins with an invasive medical procedure, an investigative phase that forces a victim to relive her attack and a trial that may force her to defend her sexuality in public clearly plays a role.

Beyond being under-reported, rape is hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. The majority of cases involve a known assailant and no direct witnesses. The accused can claim the sex act was consensual. He said vs. she said may not lead to charges, let alone convictions. Even with direct evidence, the case is not a slam dunk. Using the more conservative RAINN figures, 97 percent of sexual assailants serve no jail time.

Prosecuting a rape is already delicate and torturous. Football amplifies that process. Prosecutors bring forward cases they can win. When the accused is a football player, the case becomes open to tremendous scrutiny, on a local or national level. Pro bono legal representation is not an amateurism violation. So football player X often ends up with aggressive, powerful defense attorney Y who happens to be an alum. Consciously or subconsciously, the balance gets tipped in favor of the athlete.

Football increases the burden on alleged victims as well. Stonewalling, inaction, character assassination, diminishing the crime itself and threatening texts after an alleged attack by a Notre Dame football player led Lizzy Seeberg to take her own life. Her experience reportedly led at least one Notre Dame student not to report an alleged rape by another player. This is not just a major college football problem. We saw a similar problems in high school football in Maryville, Missouri and Steubenville, Ohio. Looking at the statistics, we can presume the aforementioned cases and others at Missouri, Montana or Vanderbilt are mere iceberg tips.

The undercurrent of sexual assault, if the newer numbers are correct, has been unflagging, despite reductions in virtually every other type of violence, the advent of modern feminism and all forms of media attention. Football culture, at every level from high school onward, stops for nothing. Not rape. Not apparent long-term brain damage. Not even a player shooting his girlfriend, driving to the stadium parking lot and shooting himself in front of the team’s coach and general manager.

Where the two trends intersect something has broken. That’s before even getting into the broader cognitive dissonance about sexual assault that tolerates Mike Tyson and Kobe Bryant working the talk show circuit and Ben Roethlisberger’s name being read with anything but disgust.

Change is needed. Men reinforcing to other men that manliness is about more than scoring touchdowns and semen release may be a simple place to start.
http://thebiglead.com/2013/11/21/jameis-winston-case-just-one-instance-in-broader-climate-of-rape-and-college-football/

According to a 2011 Newsweek report, women are more likely to be assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed in combat. The Department of Defense estimates there are about 19,000 sexual assaults in the military per year but according to the latest Pentagon statistics (2013), only 1,108 troops filed for an investigation during the most recent yearly reporting period and during that period, only 575 cases were processed. Of the cases processed, only 96 went to court-martial

But many of those lawyers also share a sense — highlighted by a recent independent review of Navy legal requirements — that commanders are increasingly opting to dispose of cases at the lowest form of court-martial or through administrative means..
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"What we're finding is a lot of commanders are using other methods to get people out of the military quicker," said Greg Rinckey, a former Army lawyer who frequently represents military clients. "It's a trend that seems to be continuing."

An adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and military law expert put it more bluntly.

"Commanding officers just want their troublemakers gone! Now!" .
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The Navy tried 252 cases at general court-martial in fiscal 2000, a figure that fell to 108 in fiscal 2010. A total of 755 cases were tried at special court-martial in fiscal 2000, a number that plummeted last fiscal year to 127.

if you knew anything about the military you would know that court marshals are rare across the board.

almost all cases are resolved before a court marshal is held, and the punishments lower than court marshal are very often career enders. rape a woman and end your career is a big deal,

My reputation here solely consists of reading others opinions and replying if I agree...or...if I disagree.

Commanders have an incentive to ignore rape allegations, advocates of the change say, because it reflects poorly on their leadership.

In the past month, there have been not one but two instances of soldiers working in Sexual Assault Prevention and Response offices charged with sexual assault. The chief of the Air Force’s prevention office was arrested last month for groping a woman. A week later, an Army sergeant working as a sexual assault program coordinator was arrested on multiple accusations of sexual abuse and for running a prostitution ring.

While the Senate was hearing testimonies by military officials, the House unanimously passed legislation to increase access to disability benefits for sexual assault victims in the military. Veterans battling military sexual trauma face a higher burden of proof than those with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. And because most sexual assaults go unreported, there is often little evidence available. Under the proposed law, veterans would only have to show they were diagnosed with a mental health condition that stems from military sexual assault.

Army Chief of Staff Gen Raymond Odierno's face reflects the fact that he's just been bitch-slapped by Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, his boss.

The oz military is going through a major purge at the moment - trying once and for all to remove the cultural elements that foster sexual abuse (or at least prevent if from being prosecuted)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/26/defence-taskforce-investigates-senior-officers-abuse

Am I off the planet or are you suggesting that soldiers must sexually assault female soldiers to be an effective military force?

One thing is clear: It is uncommon for victims to make false accusations of sexual assault. Yes, it happens, causing terrible damage for men who are falsely accused. But the evidence suggests that the vast majority of the time, women who go to the police about rape are telling the truth.

One thing is clear: It is uncommon for victims to make false accusations of sexual assault. Yes, it happens, causing terrible damage for men who are falsely accused. But the evidence suggests that far more than 50% of the time, women who go to the police about rape are telling the truth.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston will NOT be charged with a crime stemming from allegations he raped an FSU student back in 2012.

The announcement was just made by State Attorney Willie Meggs, who said, "No charges will be filed against anyone in this case."

Meggs said there were "several people in the room" when the incident happened.

Meggs said there was a 2ND MAN'S DNA discovered ... insinuating the accuser slept with another person around the time she had sex with Jameis. Meggs said the 2nd man's DNA belonged to an unidentified person.

Meggs says Jameis' DNA was on the accuser's underwear ... and the 2nd person's DNA was on her shorts. He also said there were no outward signs of trauma.

Meggs said the timing of the case was NOT driven by the FSU football schedule.

Meggs said the case would've gone a lot better if "we all would have gotten involved earlier."

Meggs said the accuser's blood alcohol level was .04 at the time it was taken ... which Meggs described as "not very high."

Meggs says ... the State Attorney will NOT investigate the Tallahassee PD ... though he did admit things might had gone differently had they known about the case earlier.

He also criticized the police for not interviewing more witnesses in the aftermath of the incident.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/05/jameis-winston-no-charges-rape-case/#ixzz2mpkKsAek

the old axiom that one cant rape a slut.