Is the Head of the IMF a Sex Criminal?

In contrast, Hawkeye, Bill, and Spendius have conjectured endlessly - which is ok if a combo of annoying and boring - but also repetitively anti women.

After all, this wasn't DSKs first forced, excuse me, alleged forced sexual act.

The belligerent and repetitive hostility to women on this thread is boggling.

Me? Anti-woman?? You must be joking

I believe osso because I can't see any reason for her making it up at this stage. Nor can I see any reason for her making the allegation which does not call into question her judgment in doing so. Her eagerness to reveal that she was once raped can have a number of motives....If I was a woman and had been raped I would hide it if possible...

So why has osso chosen to make this revelation? It has no bearing on the thread that I can see. It does show that osso was so irresistably attractive that some bloke risked 25 years in jail for her

Me? Anti-woman?? You must be joking

to express their seemingly boundless hostility toward women, all women.

Just women like you who wish to treat other women as children

there is no real way for a man to clear his name after being charge with a sexual assault as even a jury verdict of not guilty will not do it...Men should be presume guilty at being charge and the only thing that a not guilty verdict mean is that a man got away with an sexual assault.

Who consider all men as rapists in waiting at the very best where posters need to be put up on walls with warnings about not to rape to all the male students on college campuses.

Short of holding all trials, both criminal and civil, in secret, there is really no way of preventing some damage to a person's reputation by virtue of the fact that they were placed on trial and some compelling evidence against them was presented.

That's the real purpose of this thread for those three--it's simply another venue, and another opportunity, to express their seemingly boundless hostility toward women, all women.

There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.

Essentially it's hate speech--not unlike what you'd find on KKK or Aryan Nation Web sites, it's just directed at gender rather than race, or religion or ethnicity. Although at least two of these posters do take bigoted swipes at racial and religious groups as well as females. And Hawkeye, has actually claimed victimization based on the possession of his Aryan genitalia.

It's interesting, but not at all surprising, that they become most vociferous, and downright crude, in threads about sexual assaults. How best to sock it to a woman than with a good sexual assault--just like they did it in the old days, the glory days for men, before nasty laws cramped their style and women dared to open their mouths and complain. No one knows their place any more, certainly not the uppity women, and, to afford them any respect and dignity is just PC nonsense--slap them down and rub it in their face, that's how you prove you're a real man, that's how you champion men's rights. So, I see some of these postings as the equivalent of burning crosses, or graffiti swastikas, symbols of hostility and provocation that say a lot more about the people that display them than their target group.

When you have internet anonymity, you don't even have to bother covering yourself with a white sheet, so true misogynists can revel in it like pigs rolling in ****, and you can almost hear their squeals of delight.

You won't shout me down with your nasty remarks.

in that way is no different than reminding them not to drink and drive

Very few cases get to trial, and you have not said anything against the current state practice of going out of their way to assault the reputation of the accused.

The case we are discussing in this thread is going to trial, and I have not seen where the state has gone out of its way to assault the reputation of DSK

Thanks for making my point that you view all men as rapists in waitings only being held back by fear of the law.

Are the police and justice systems tougher in the U.S. than in France? As far as I know there is no index of police brutality, but regarding the same serious offenses criminal sanctions are harsher in the United States. Ironically, this severity is due to the multicultural nature of American society. In the United States, legislators and judges believe that a society that shares a different cultural heritage can only survive with a certain harmony if the rules of the game, in this case, the law, are severely enforced.

The more diverse the states are, the more important immigration becomes (New York is multiethnic) and the more repressive the police and justice systems are. This severity, which is known by the phrase "zero tolerance," and which was first adopted by New York in the '80s, is an essential prerequisite for order.

Therefore DSK found himself in a world that was totally strange to him, a world that he, as the French aristocrat that he is, did not understand. Those in France, such as the well-known intellectuals who give him their support, with or without reason, usually do not understand how American society works. DSK is not an unequal victim of repression, but the eloquent representation of a civilization that is radically different from France

I never said that. Actually, I think that's what Spendius was saying.

Alain Finkielkraut, French philosopher
Le Monde | 14.06.11

DSK: you judge a man, not a symbol

I do not know if Dominique Strauss-Kahn is innocent or guilty of the offenses alleged against him.I do know one thing, and unfortunately this knowledge, part of the evidence is less and less shared: Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not a symbol but a singular person, with a name and a surname.Even those who, impressed by the indictment and the evidence distilled in the press, deny him the presumption of innocence, should give him, it would still be the very least, the presumption of individuality.

Instead, it conceptualizes Strauss-Kahn in arm circumference and length of talk shows, made into a specimen, an emblem, a category, it is drowning in abstraction."Who is" is replaced by what it is or what it is supposed to be: dominant in his works, the old-white-male-libidinous, the club member of the powerful and unstoppable believe that everything is permitted.

His trial is the trial of the West predator, the trial of racism, Islamophobia trial, the trial of sexism, the trial of the persistence of the old regime in democratic Europe, the trial of stolen kisses, ribald jokes and the French conception of the commerce of the sexes, the trial finally all rapists, pedophiles and all all those who stubbornly refuse to share household chores.Two humanities are facing: the one that crushes and that which is crushed.Through the housekeepers in New York, said today the second to the first: "Enough! Dominique Strauss-Kahn has to pay for what we did."

Well no, you did nothing.What he did was for justice to be determined.If one turns the trial of a man on trial of domination, then justice is found moot, the case is heard, the verdict has already fallen and the hearings have no place to be if not as punishment, as public humiliation, as political and judicial lynching as "Shame on you!" ("shame on you").

In The Human Stain (Gallimard, 2004), this novel begins in the middle of dealing Clinton-Monica Lewinsky , Philip Roth says he had dreamed of a giant banner hung from one end to another of the White House as one of these packages to the Dadaists and Christo who proclaimed: "A Human Being lives here" ("Here is still a human being ")...

I want to wrap myself the "luxury home" which saw one that was deemed undesirable by all owners of apartments in Manhattan and remind photographers, correspondents, columnists for, tourists, feminists, the deconstructionists of all countries, professionals of laughter, the moral left and right too happy to defend in turn, more importantly against the socialist cause of the oppressed, that there is still a human being.

One of flesh and blood.While the attack at the Sofitel (if proven) is incomparably worse than what happened in the Oval Office between President and his intern.But a human being is a human being.If there is one lesson of the XX th century, we must at all costs, we braced for this tautology.And this also applies to the complainant itself reduced to an abstraction, and disembodied exploited shamelessly by those who profess to be moved by his fate.

Among the trials arising from the Strauss-Kahn affair, there is that of omerta, the law of silence, complacency with the French press would have shown towards the political class.On behalf of the sacred separation between private life and public life, it would have covered up wrongdoing, including that of the particularly heavy dredger that was the former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Some journalists are so their mea culpa , rubbing his hands.They promise to make the people around the depravity of its agents instead of booking that knowledge to a privileged few.They undertake to excavate the lives, listening to conversations, to report transgressions and not to meet only one secret: that of their sources.The democratic right of citizens to know and the need to moralize public life impose further increase their power.What a deal!

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Testaments Betrayed (Gallimard, 1984 and 2000 respectively), Milan Kundera tells a story very informative.Wanting to discredit two great personalities of the "Prague Spring", the novelist Jan Prochazka and Prof. Vaclav Cerny , police released their conversations on the radio soap opera.

"On behalf of the police action was a bold and unprecedented. And, surprisingly: it has almost succeeded, at the time, Prochazka was discredited: because in private they say anything, we talk bad friends, they say bad words, it is not serious, it tells jokes in bad taste, we repeat, is amused by his interlocutor by shocking enormities, it was heretical ideas that n ' admit it publicly, and so on. (...) . It is only gradually (but with an even greater rage) that people realized that the real scandal were not the words of daring but Prochazka rape of his life, they realized (for shock) that the private and the public are essentially two different worlds and that respect for this difference is the sine qua non for a man to live in free man, the curtain that separates the two worlds is untouchable and that the curtain pullers are criminals. "

This word is anti-totalitarian she heard?Or the case will complete Strauss-Kahn does convince us that pulling the curtain is not criminal but beneficial when it is the work of citizen journalists and not police?

Alain Finkielkraut, philosopher

Ah, so osso should have kept silent, covered-up her shame, or whatever you think should compel a woman to keep such a secret, about having been vulnerable to an assault by a predator. And why should she do this? Why should she not speak out about a criminal violation committed on her body?

Woman cause their own rapes...the temptations they provide explain the rape.

Then you apparently have the insight of a fruit-fly.

"`So far so good,` said she, when I had ended my story, `and now pay attention to what I am about to tell you--heaven itself, indeed, will recall it to your recollection. First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. There is a great heap of dead men`s bones lying all around, with the flesh still rotting off them. Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men`s ears with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright on a cross piece half way up the mast, and they must lash the rope`s ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening. If you beg and pray the men to unloose you, then they must bind you faster.