@hawkeye10,
Quote:Saying that women are devious is not a slam on women, I am not saying anything that you will not find in the book "the rules" about how to catch and keep a man. Men need the game, women who are not devious tend to bore us to tears. However, the law needs to keep this traditional game between men and women in mind when it makes assumptions on behavior, believing and acting as though women can be assumed to be telling the truth is stupidity, and unjust towards men.
When you consider
all women to be devious--i.e. dishonest, deceitful, untrustworthy, insincere, etc., it most certainly is a slam on women--
all women. And, to further say that, because of her gender, it can never be assumed that a woman is telling the truth, is a blatantly sexist, and bigoted attitude.
We are not talking about "a game" between men and women when we are discussing violent crimes of sexual assault with unwilling victims. We are talking about violent and felonious criminal behavior on the part of a perpetrator. That is not something that can be, in any way, regarded as within the continuum of normal and acceptable social/sexual behaviors--and that is how most people, in most countries, view such behaviors--as very serious crimes.
We are not discussing "The Dating Game" or "How to Catch and Keep A Man"--we discussing crimes of forcible sexual assault--and, in the case of women, the victims of such crimes can be in their 80's and 90's. These are generally opportunistic crimes against vulnerable individuals.
The police certainly do assess credibility when dealing with a sexual assault complainant, as they do with anyone who reports a crime of any type--credibility is probably the first thing they consider. And the NYPD Special Victim's Unit and the D.A.'s sex crimes division, both very experienced in handling sex crimes, found DSK's accuser to be highly credible. They did not discount her report simply because she was female, and they arrived at their own decision to make an arrest. There was nothing "unjust toward a man" about any of this. They had what they considered to be a highly credible complainant, they had some additional evidence, and they knew who she was accusing, so they felt justified in making an arrest. And now the matter will be for a jury to decide.
You keep harping on how "unjust" and "unfair" it is to arrest and prosecute men for forcible sexual assaults. Well, it's also rather "unjust" for any woman to get forcibly sexually assaulted against her will, don't you think?