Elliot Rodger

However, if you are going to be facetious with your examples (or even just have the appearance of being facetious) on such a serious matter...people are doing to give a facetious, or even serious response - which won't be positive.

These aren't tenets of feminism, hawk. It just sounds like you hung around with some militant bitches.

I can't think of any basic foundational goals of feminism that any man should consider man-hating.

The cock-tease thing just sounds like sour grapes.

- pee your pants before you go out on stage

“What else are you going to tell your parents when you come home drunk like that and after a night like that?” said Hubbard, who is one of the team’s 19 coaches. “She had to make up something. Now people are trying to blow up our football program because of it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Twitter posts, videos and photographs circulated by some who attended the nightlong set of parties suggested that an unconscious girl had been sexually assaulted over several hours while others watched. She may have even been urinated on.

In one photograph posted on Instagram by a Steubenville High football player, the girl, who was from across the Ohio River in Weirton, W.Va., is shown looking unresponsive as two boys carry her by her wrists and ankles. Twitter users wrote the words “rape” and “drunk girl” in their posts....

The city’s police chief begged for witnesses to come forward, but received little response...“The thing I found most disturbing about this is that there were other people around when this was going on,” William McCafferty, the Steubenville police chief, said of the events that unfolded. “Nobody had the morals to say, ‘Hey, stop it, that isn’t right.’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

At the parties, the girl had so much to drink that she was unable to recall much from that night, and nothing past midnight, the police said. The girl began drinking early on, according to an account that the police pieced together from witnesses, including two of the three Steubenville High athletes who testified in court in October. By 10 or 10:30 that night, it was clear that the dark-haired teenager was drunk because she was stumbling and slurring her words, witnesses testified.

Some people at the party taunted her, chanted and cheered as a Steubenville High baseball player dared bystanders to urinate on her, one witness testified.

About two hours later, the girl left the party with several Big Red football players, including Mays and Richmond, witnesses said. They stayed only briefly at a second party before leaving for their third party of the night. Two witnesses testified that the girl needed help walking. One testified that she was carried out of the house by Mays and Richmond while she was “sleeping.”

She woke up long enough to vomit in the street, a witness said, and she remained there alone for several minutes with her top off. Another witness said Mays and Richmond were holding her hair back.

Afterward, they headed to the home of one football player who has now become a witness for the prosecution. That player told the police that he was in the back seat of his Volkswagen Jetta with Mays and the girl when Mays proceeded to flash the girl’s breasts and penetrate her with his fingers, while the player videotaped it on his phone. The player, who shared the video with at least one person, testified that he videotaped Mays and the girl “because he was being stupid, not making the right choices.” He said he later deleted the recording.

The girl “was just sitting there, not really doing anything,” the player testified. “She was kind of talking, but I couldn’t make out the words that she was saying.”

At that third party, the girl could not walk on her own and vomited several times before toppling onto her side, several witnesses testified. Mays then tried to coerce the girl into giving him oral sex, but the girl was unresponsive, according to the player who videotaped Mays and the girl.

The player said he did not try to stop it because “at the time, no one really saw it as being forceful.”

At one point, the girl was on the ground, naked, unmoving and silent, according to two witnesses who testified. Mays, they said, had exposed himself while he was right next to her.

Richmond was behind her, with his hands between her legs, penetrating her with his fingers, a witness said.

“I tried to tell Trent to stop it,” another athlete, who was Mays’s best friend, testified. “You know, I told him, ‘Just wait — wait till she wakes up if you’re going to do any of this stuff. Don’t do anything you’re going to regret.’ ”

He said Mays answered: “It’s all right. Don’t worry.”

That boy took a photograph of what Mays and Richmond were doing to the girl. He explained in court how he wanted her to know what had happened to her, but he deleted it from his phone, he testified, after showing it to several people.

The girl slept on a couch in the basement of that home that night, with Mays alongside her before he took a spot on the floor.

When she awoke, she was unaware of what had happened to her, she has told her parents and the police. But by then, the story of her night was already unfolding on the Internet, on Twitter and via text messages. Compromising and explicit photographs of her were posted and shared.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Within a day, a family member in town shared with the girl’s parents more disturbing visuals: a photograph posted on Instagram of their daughter who looked passed out at a party and a YouTube video of a former Steubenville baseball player talking about a rape. That former player, who graduated earlier this year, also posted on Twitter, “Song of the night is definitely Rape Me by Nirvana,” and “Some people deserve to be peed on,” which was reshared on Twitter by several people, including Mays.

The parents then notified the police and took their daughter to a hospital. At 1:38 a.m. on Aug. 14, the girl’s parents walked into the Steubenville police station with a flash drive with photographs from online, Twitter posts and the video on it. It was all the evidence the girl’s parents had, leaving the police with the task of filling in the details of what had happened that night. The police said the case was challenging partly because too much time had passed since the suspected rape. By then, the girl had taken at least one shower and might have washed away evidence, said McCafferty, the police chief. He added that it also was too late for toxicology tests to determine if she had been drugged.

“My daughter learned about what had happened to her that night by reading the story about it in the local newspaper,” the girl’s mother said.

“How would you like to go through that as a mother, seeing your daughter, who is your entire world, treated like that?” the mother said. “It was devastating for all of us.”

Mays and Richmond were arrested Aug. 22, about a week after the girl’s parents reported the suspected rape
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Despite the seeming abundance of material online regarding the night of the suspected rape and the number of teenagers who were at the parties that night, the police still have had trouble establishing what anyone might regard as an airtight case.

A medical examination at a hospital more than one day after the parties did not reveal any evidence, like semen, that might have supported an accusation of rape, the police said. The Steubenville police knocked on doors of the people thought to be at the parties, but not many people were forthcoming with information. In several instances, the police seized cellphones so they could look for photographs or videos related to the case.

Eventually, 15 phones and 2 iPads were confiscated and analyzed by a cybercrime expert at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. That expert could not retrieve deleted photographs and videos on most of the phones.

In the end, the expert recovered two naked photographs of the girl. One photograph showed the girl face down on the floor at one party, naked with her arms tucked beneath her, according to testimony given at a hearing in October. The other photograph was not described. Both photographs were found on Mays’s iPhone. No photograph or video showed anyone involved in a sexual act with the girl.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Adam Nemann, Mays’s lawyer, said the case was unusual because the police collected no physical evidence or testimony from the girl who asserts she was raped.

“The whole question is consent,” he said. “Was she conscious enough to give consent or not? We think she was. She gave out the pass code to her phone after the sexual assault was said to have occurred.”

He said that online photographs and posts could ultimately be “a gift” for his client’s case because the girl, before that night in August, had posted provocative comments and photographs on her Twitter page over time. He added that those online posts demonstrated that she was sexually active and showed that she was “clearly engaged in at-risk behavior.”

But in court, they have rejected the defense’s claims. The girl, they have said, was in no condition to give consent to sexual advances that night — and the teenagers there knew it, the prosecutors said.

At a hearing in early October, prosecutors told the judge in the case that the defendants treated the girl “like a toy” and, “The bottom line is we don’t have to prove that she said no, we just have to prove that when they’re doing things to her, she’s not moving. She’s not responsive, and the evidence is consistent and clear.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The Steubenville High School rape occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, on the night of August 11, 2012, when a high school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her peers, several of whom documented the acts in social media. The victim was transported, undressed, photographed, and sexually assaulted. She was also penetrated vaginally by other students' fingers (digital penetration), an act defined as rape under Ohio law.

The jocular attitude of the assailants was documented on Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and cell phone recordings of the acts. The crime and ensuing legal proceedings generated considerable controversy and galvanized a national conversation about rape and rape culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steubenville_High_School_rape_case

You are so biased in your view of such situations, it doesn't seem to dawn on you that it is possible she never, in fact, consented to what was done to her, she was simply too intoxicated to resist, and that the response of the accused, "She was willing" is a misleading lie.

I can concur that if a guy is a bit drunk himself and the woman is blotto to the point of near black out and he proceeds to go ahead, then she has cause to complain.

I agree...it's an incredibly difficult thing to prove in court (states of intoxication, after the fact), but as a principle, I too concur.

Please explain how there is justice in a law where...two equally drunk people do exactly the same thing together, and they willingly do it together, and:
A. is not capable of making a decision, is not responsible for decisions & actions, and doesn't commit a crime; while
B. is capable of making a decision, is responsible for their decisions & actions, and does commit a crime.

If you can do that (rationally) without raising gender issues...then I will be very impressed.

So, if a guy and girl meet in a bar, end up in the same state of intoxication, and she:

A - chases him around the nightclub
B - takes him home to her place
C - lays him flat on his back, jumps on top of him and has intercourse with him

(or keeping A & B the same)

D - gives him oral sex (which will still trigger most rape laws, as it involves penetration)

According to this law you support...if the next day she has regrets, she can make a rape complaint, and he is a rapist.

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There is no logic, or fairness in that - it would be a travesty of justice.

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This conundrum couldn't exist if the law held both genders to the same standard

A FORMER roommate of mass murderer Elliot Rodger says he moved out of the apartment he shared with the disturbed youth because he had a “bad feeling”.

In a courageous interview with ABC News Chris Rugg, a film major at the University of California in Santa Barbara, also reveals he has regrets not acting on signs Rodger needed help.

Rudd said he and another male student left the apartment they shared with Rodger last June because they were “getting really uncomfortable living there.”

Rugg said his roommate told him that he believed Rodger had a firearm because he could hear a gun “clicking.”

I didn’t hear the clicks, but he said that he would click the gun over and over and the way the room is set up you could see the silhouette of everything that’s going on there,”

“I guess we were the quiet apartment,” he said.

Rodger took them up on social invites for meals or gym time but after the fourth or fifth time, he stopped, Rugg said.

He avoided conversation and was overheard having what Rugg presumed to be telephone conversations from his bedroom that got “angrier and louder”.

“There was a lot of just frustration for how he was not having a good time at school and how no one seemed to want to hang out with him, and it just got more and more serious,” Rugg said.

Looking back at the deadly rampage, Rugg said there were warning signs that something wasn’t right. He regrets not acting to prevent the tragedy that unfolded.

“I realised that if I am not surprised that this is something he would have done then why did I not say anything?”

...anyway A2K is prob not the place for me to work on material, but don't be surprised if I throw some dumb joke in once in awhile.

The problem is, in law, a woman doesn't have to be 'almost comatose' to 'not be able to give consent' (any man taking advantage of such a situation should face criminal courts)- just heavily intoxicated. Every post of mine has been aimed at that state of intoxication - because it is where the double standards exist....

And you still can’t answer a simple question withour referring to specific law

So, if a guy and girl meet in a bar, end up in the same state of intoxication, and she:

A - chases him around the nightclub
B - takes him home to her place
C - lays him flat on his back, jumps on top of him and has intercourse with him

(or keeping A & B the same)

D - gives him oral sex (which will still trigger most rape laws, as it involves penetration)

According to this law you support...if the next day she has regrets, she can make a rape complaint, and he is a rapist.

gives him oral sex (which will still trigger most rape laws, as it involves penetration)

According to this law you support...if the next day she has regrets, she can make a rape complaint, and he is a rapist

“If I Can’t Have Them, No One Will”: How Misogyny Kills Men
By Amanda Hess

Shortly before Elliot Rodger set out into the streets of Isla Vista, California, on Friday night, he released an 138-page manifesto outlining his intentions to wage a “war on women” where he would “punish all females for the crime of depriving me of sex.” By the end of the evening, he had murdered two women and four men, wounded 13 others, and killed himself. In the wake of the murders, some leveraged Rodger’s death count to argue that, if anything, Rodger’s crimes were an expression of his hatred of men, not women. If he was such a misogynist, why were his victims mostly male? “He killed twice as many men as women you fool,” one man wrote to me in an email, echoing a sentiment I’ve heard in many forms over the past few days. “That sound like misogyny to you?”

It does. Women’s issues are often dismissed as a niche concern, but we constitute half of the human population. Once that’s recognized, it’s not hard to see how hating us can inflict significant collateral damage among all people—including the men who are our partners, our relatives, and our colleagues. Misogyny kills men, too.

Rodger hated women, that much was clear. He told us again and again in the manifesto he circulated in advance of the attack, in videos he posted weeks beforehand, and on misogynistic message boards he populated for years. Women are “vicious, stupid, cruel animals,” he wrote. They are “spoiled, heartless, wicked bitches”; they are “a plague that must be quarantined”; they are “evil and depraved”; they should not “have any rights in a civilized society.” Rodger fantasized about herding all women into concentration camps, starving most of them to death, then farming out the rest of them for reproductive purposes in order to ensure the dominance of men. But men who loved women also incurred Rodger’s wrath. “I will destroy all women,” Rodger wrote. “I will make them all suffer for rejecting me. I will arm myself with deadly weapons and wage a war against all women and the men they are attracted to.” Rodger viewed women as objects, and he resented other men for hoarding what he viewed as his property. “If I can’t have them,” he wrote, “no one will.”

In her 2007 book Whipping Girl, Julia Serano noted that misogyny is the belief that “femaleness and femininity are inferior to, and exist primarily for the benefit of, maleness and masculinity,” and that’s an attitude that works to police both men and women.* It expresses itself in the bullying of insufficiently masculine boys, in the pervasiveness of homophobic slurs, in the suppression of open emotional expression among men, and in overwhelming violence against trans women, who are especially stigmatized for appearing to reject what some consider as their God-given male bodies.

Then there is the male toll from domestic violence against women. Over the past decade, organizations that fight domestic violence have begun to take a closer look at all of the deaths that result from dating and spousal relationships, beyond the victims who are killed by their intimate partners. Women are overwhelmingly the victims of domestic violence murders. But men die, too. Some are killed by their partners, male or female. Others are killed by police after killing their partners, or attempting to. Many kill themselves. And every year, a number of men die at the hands of other men who murder the current partners of their ex-girlfriends or ex-wives. Still—perhaps because these murders constitute a minority of cases, and because domestic violence organizations are expressly devoted to aiding the immediate victims of intimate partner violence—the phenomenon hasn’t been seriously investigated. Jane Doe Inc., an advocacy organization against domestic violence in Massachusetts, expanded the bounds of its own annual death count in 2005 to include homicides where “the homicide victim was a bystander or intervened in an attempted domestic violence homicide and was killed” and ones where “the motive for the murder was reported to have included jealousy” in the context of an intimate relationship. "The human toll from domestic violence is grossly underestimated,” Jane Doe reported in 2006. “Domestic violence homicides represent just the tip of the iceberg regarding mortality and morbidity resulting from domestic violence.”

Rodger was not a domestic abuser. He was a mentally ill young man who had better access to firearms than he did sufficient mental health care. But his stated motivation behind targeting both male and female victims—“If I can’t have them, no one will”—echoes the attitudes of the perpetrators of domestic violence. Conforming to Jane Doe’s framework, Rodger’s male victims included men he envied as well as roommates he perceived as getting in his way.

It is not uncommon for men who resent women to take out their aggressions on other men, but unlike public violence against women, male-on-male attacks slip more easily underneath our cultural radar. When Jersey Shore reality star Snooki was punched by a man at a bar while cameras rolled, the guy was instantly mobbed by her protective male friends and, later, widely condemned by television viewers. But as Cord Jefferson detailed in Jezebel at the time, violence between men on the show—often enacted in fights over the show’s female characters—was completely normalized. Both scenarios are evidence of misogyny’s societal impact; only one is accepted as such.

A year before the murders, Elliot Rodger used this dynamic to his advantage when he attended a college house party that he later wrote in his manifesto was an attempt to give the “female gender one last chance to provide me with the pleasures I deserved from them.” But the female partygoers failed to satisfy, and, drunk and dejected, Rodger hopped onto a 10-foot ledge and openly attempted to shove off the women he disdained, and the men who had occupied their attentions. When police confronted him about the incident, Rodger claimed that it had simply been a boyish fight between men, who Rodger said had attacked him for acting too “cocky.” This excuse helped Rodger evade immediate punishment and allowed the misogynistic roots of his anger to go undetected.

Elliot Rodger targeted women out of entitlement, their male partners out of jealousy, and unrelated male bystanders out of expedience. This is not ammunition for an argument that he was a misandrist at heart—it’s evidence of the horrific extent of misogyny’s cultural reach.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/05/29/elliot_rodger_hated_men_because_he_hated_women.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

Actually, No, Elliot Rodger Was Never Diagnosed With Autism
Tommy Christopher
May 29, 2014

Since last Friday’s murderous rampage at UCSB, it has been widely reported that mass murderer Elliot Rodger had an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) formerly known as Asperger’s Syndrome*, and some of that reporting has falsely suggested a link between autism and criminal violence. A closer look at that reporting, however, reveals that according to a spokesman for the Rodger family, Elliot Rodger was never even diagnosed with an ASD.

For several days now, I’ve been highlighting the false and irresponsible reporting on autism in the wake of last Friday’s massacre, but there have also been examples of responsible reporting on Elliot Rodger’s alleged autism, even on MSNBC. The most important thing to remember is that, whether or not Rodger was autistic, that fact has no relevance to the horrific acts he committed.

Having said that, though, it also matters whether the fact of his autism was even true. A friend asked me, yesterday, how much confidence I had in the reported autism diagnosis, but as I’ve said before, being an autism parent doesn’t automatically make me an expert. There were things about Rodger’s manifesto that made me skeptical. Aside from some very superficially recognizable characteristics, Rodger didn’t describe any of the experiences that would go along with an ASD, nothing about communication difficulties, nothing about sensory issues, nothing about receiving any educational services.

That manifesto was, among other things, excruciatingly thorough and brutally honest, and while Rodger described, in detail, all of the things he viewed as deficits that had been inflicted upon him, he never mentions anything remotely related to autism. He also recounts meetings with everyone he ever met, including a “life coach” named Tony and the psychiatrist who prescribed him an anti-psychotic medication, but never mentions a child study team, or any evaluation for autism. While I’m no more qualified to render a diagnosis than Dr. Joe Scarborough is, it made me skeptical. The reporting on that diagnosis is something that’s right in my wheelhouse, so I set about trying to find out where this all actually came from.

The source of all the reporting on Rodger’s supposed autism appears to be a statement by Rodger family attorney Alan Shifman, on Saturday, in which he told reporters that Elliot Rodger had been under the care of multiple professionals since childhood, and that he was a “highly functional Asperger’s Syndrome child,” but Shifman is never directly quoted as saying there was ever a diagnosis.

That precise verbiage is also found in some 1999 divorce papers obtained by RadarOnline, in which Li Chin Rodger, Elliot’s mother, was seeking three thousand dollars a month in child support, in part because, she claimed, “Elliot has special needs; he is a high functioning autistic child.”

In that same filing, though, Peter Rodger responds by saying he doesn’t know anything about an autism diagnosis for his son:

Though Li Chin Rodger claims in her court documents that Elliot is a high functioning autistic child, I was not involved in any prior evaluation of Elliot. Li Chin did not inform me about any evaluation of Elliot. This disturbed me greatly. I am now in the process of having Elliot evaluated by a child psychiatrist. Li Chin Rodger has agreed to be a part of the process.

Whether that evaluation ever occurred is unknown, but if it did, it did not result in an autism diagnosis, according to Simon Astaire, a family friend whom the Wall Street Journal reports was “appointed to speak for the Rodger family.” Here’s what Astaire told The Telegraph:

Simon Astaire, a family friend, said their son had been seeing therapists since the age of eight, including virtually “every day” while at high school.

He said: “What more could they have done? They are going through indescribable grief dealing with the loss of their son. His parents were conscious and concerned about their son’s health. They thought he was in good hands.”

Mr Astaire said Rodger, who was believed to have Asperger’s but had not been diagnosed, was “reserved to a daunting degree” and “fundamentally withdrawn”, but seemed to have “no affinity to guns whatsoever”.

Clearly, Rodger’s parents became convinced that he was autistic, and his psychiatrist, celebrity shrink and non-autism specialist Dr. Charles Sophy, may have seen superficial traits in Elliot that reminded him of Asperger’s/autism, but if there was no diagnosis, then there was no autism. Just because your kid is awkward and really likes video games does not make him autistic. Unlike many older adults who are diagnosed later in life because of the increased awareness, Elliot Rodger was under the care of medical and psychiatric professionals for over ten years. If he was autistic, he would have been diagnosed.

Given the nightmarish horror that some make autism out to be, it might be difficult to understand why a parent would cling to, or even hope for, such a diagnosis, but when the alternative is something like, say, paranoid schizophrenia and/or sociopathy, “high-functioning autism” might not sound so bad. Nobody’s going to stick a “Sociopath Awareness” magnet on their car.

Again, I’m not remotely qualified to diagnose anyone with anything, but I am qualified to report the fact that Elliot Rodger was prescribed a medication used to treat paranoid schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder, and that sociopathy, the symptoms of which Rodger’s own manifesto checks nearly every box, is often confused for autism by idiots and quacks. During the last round of autism propaganda, following Newtown, there were “experts” and reporters all over the TV reporting that people with ASD “lack empathy,” and even have “something missing in the brain,” which is completely untrue of autistic people, but completely true of sociopaths.

Whatever the truth turns out to be, journalists should stop reporting that Elliot Rodger was autistic, unless and until someone presents evidence that he was actually diagnosed with it.

*Author’s note: Asperger’s Syndrome was once a standalone diagnosis, but is now included in the autism spectrum.
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/report-mass-murderer-elliot-rodger-never-diagnosed-autism/

Children with Asperger’s disorder might:
initiate interactions with others but have difficulty in sustaining social interaction

interact with people if they need something or to talk about something that
interests them, but not for the sake of being social or out of genuine interest in others

interact in an awkward and stilted way – for example, they might avoid eye contact while speaking or interpret things literally

interact more easily with adults than with children

not show emotion or empathy.

Repetitive or persistent behaviours
Children with Asperger’s disorder might:
have restricted or obsessive interests that make them seem like ‘walking encyclopaedias’ about particular topics
prefer routines and rules
not respond well to change.

Initiate interactions with others but have difficulty in sustaining social interaction

This was a kid who was so anxious about learning to drive that he didn't want to get a learner's permit when he turned 16--as most kids might enthusiastically look forward to doing--he didn't think he could handle driving a car, and it was over a year later before he even tried to learn how to drive. If he was so nervous about learning to drive, and being able to handle a car, can you imagine how nervous he might have been about his ability to sexually function adequately with a woman? He didn't feel he measured up enough to even get noticed by females, can you imagine what he thought they might demand of him if he ever got in bed with one?

The percentage of teens with a driver's license has fallen significantly in the past few decades. Experts suspect there's no single explanation for the shift, but cite several possible factors, including prices for high gas and insurance, stricter state driving requirements and a greater willingness to let Mom and Dad do the driving.

"The numbers suggest that fewer teens are wanting to drive," said Karl Brauer, senior director of insights at Kelley Blue Book.
Only 28 percent of 16-year-olds had their driver's license in 2010, compared with about 46 percent of 16-year-olds who were licensed drivers in 1983, according to an analysis of data from the Federal Highway Administration and the Census Bureau data compiled by Michael Sivak and Brandon

In my above post I noted how his previous flat mates left, found him disturbing, a year before constantly clicking his gun in his room. But, more so, that he did socialise with them 4 or 5 times and on the last occasion ditched them.

It is impossible to draw a clear line between someone who is drunk but still able to consent, and someone who is too drunk to consent. The only way to avoid a terrible mistake is to err on the side of caution.

gives him oral sex (which will still trigger most rape laws, as it involves penetration)

Your ignorance is stunning--if she gives him oral sex, she's not penetrating his body.

In Queensland, rape and indecent assault are dealt with under sections 349 and 350 of the Queensland Criminal Code 2000 (QCC). The Criminal Code defines rape as:

-sexual intercourse without consent (in the QCC the expression "carnal knowledge" is used to describe the act of penetration in sexual intercourse - this includes anal intercourse).
- penetration of a persons vulva, vagina or anus to any extent with a thing (for example, an object, like a stick or bottle) or -- any body part (eg. a finger) without consent.
-oral penetration to any extent of a person by a penis without their consent.

Do you remember his saying he saw another boy watching porn on a computer when he was 11? He got a glimpse of a couple having intercourse and he was stunned--he didn't know that was what men and women did--and he was revolted by it--he felt revulsion. He said his father never taught him how to "woo women" but I don't think his father had ever discussed the "facts of life" with him either, or talked to him about sexuality at all. At the age of 11, he certainly should have had some idea of what sexual contact was about, even if he found it "disgusting" to look at at that age.

I saved his life, and my brother remembers it to this very day. Every single second of my brother’s life, everything that happens to him in the future, will exist because I pulled him out of the water that day.

I was annoyed that he kept having to make it clear to us that he was now in a “financial crisis”. He talked about it all the time, and it was embarrassing.

What a bitter coincidence, that right at the point when my life fell even deeper into agony, my father is cursed with this financial crisis. Right at the time when I needed my father’s support the most, he lost all of his assets. It was as if some malevolent being cursed me with bad luck. I truly had no advantage at all. The universe was not kind to me. I formed an ideology in my head of how the world should work. I was fueled both by my desire to destroy all of the injustices of the world, and to exact revenge on everyone I envy and hate. I decided that my destiny in life is to rise to power so I can impose my ideology on the world and set everything right.

I was only seventeen, I have plenty of time.

I thought to myself. I spent all of my time studying in my room, reading books about history, politics, and sociology, trying to learn as much as I can. I became a new person, furiously driven by a goal. My torment would continue, but I had something to live for. I felt empowered.

I never thought nor cared about money before I turned 18, because I was still living like a child, with my parents handling the money and giving me the things I needed. However, the more older I grew, the more I realized how important money was, and the more obsessed I would become about getting rich. This obsession, which was barely taking root at the time, sparked a long relationship the Lottery that would only end in disappointment and despair.