1 in 5 women get raped?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/04/06/rolling_stone_uva_campus_rape_story_columbia_issues_a_damning_report.html

Rolling Stone, the CNN of magazine journalism.

Hawkeye, I found in my life that most women, if they wish to do so, can lied far more convincingly then I can tell the truth.

A cartoon about rape culture and risk
In my experience, living in rape culture is not "living in fear." I'm not constantly worrying about where the next attack is coming from. Part of that is circumstance, but part of that is because "living in fear" is ******* exhausting. This cartoon, in my opinion, provides a good description of what dating in rape culture is like -- the low-level awareness that is basic common sense when meeting someone new, but also the second-guessing of your own actions in the event that something does go wrong.

Direct link: http://www.robot-hugs.com/risky-date/

Hey Bob, loved it.

It was rather long, and a little too whiny for my taste.

Some random person she met on the internet was a jerk. This is hardly the indictment of men that she wants it to be. If someone I met online did that to me, I would have stopped the interaction without so much fuss...

You think so?? Why am I not surprised?

If a man or woman you met online refused to meet you in public, would you make a big deal about it? Or would you simply say "no, thanks" and move on?

Tell me why this isn't silly?

I don't meet up with people online, so it's not a question I can answer from personal experience. People who do meet up with strangers online are performing without a net.

That isn't true at all.

I have met strangers online. Meeting at a public place a few times is the normal way of doing things. It is very safe.

There of the millions of people meeting online, there are only a very few cases where anything bad has happened. There are things that you do (for example driving to work) that are far more dangerous than online dating.

Did not mean to multiple post it, though!

NRA Jackass Blames Women Who Don’t Carry Guns for Being Raped
Jesse Berney | 1 week ago | Public Enemies

No. No, no, no, no, no.

Nope.

National Rifle Association News host Cam Edwards lashed out at a Daily Tar Heel editorial that argued guns are not the solution to campus sexual assault by claiming that the “burden” of stopping sexual assaults and other violent crimes as they occur “is on the victim.”

CamNo, the burden of stopping rape is not on the victim being raped, you mouth-breathing dumpster of a man. No, it’s not the victim’s fault that someone decided to forcibly assault her, you sad excuse for what barely passes for a human being.

Maybe you’re so desperately insecure that you constantly need to have the ability to murder another human being within arm’s reach. That doesn’t mean a woman deserves to be raped because she doesn’t own a gun.

Repeat after me: The. Rape. Is. The. Rapist’s. Fault.

http://bluenationreview.com/nra-jackass-blames-women-dont-carry-guns-raped/

Stanford task force recommends university expel violators in sex assault cases
Source: San Jose Mercury News

STANFORD -- Stanford University is considering major changes to its sexual assault policies for the upcoming academic year, including whether expelling violators should be the expected punishment, the school's provost announced Wednesday.

The announcement comes on the heels of at least two high profile sexual assault cases in the past year, including the alleged rape of an unconscious woman by a former Stanford swimmer, and news that Stanford is among the roughly 100 college campuses under investigation by the federal Office for Civil Rights for its handling of such cases.

The changes will be based on recommendations released Wednesday by an 18-member task force the provost convened last summer to review how the campus investigates sexual assault, sanctions violators and supports victims.

"I welcome the thoughtful recommendations of the task force and intend to implement as many as possible for the coming academic year," said Provost John Etchemendy, who is reviewing the report.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_27874064/stanford-task-force-recommends-university-expel-violators-sex

Inside The Police Failure To Stop Darren Sharper's Rape Spree
by ProPublica by Ryan Gabrielson by T. Christian Miller by Ramon Antonio Vargas by John Simerman

It was 5:06 a.m. on a Tuesday in September 2013 when sex crimes Detective Derrick Williams caught the call. It came from the hospital. It was a distraught woman. She was saying she had been raped.

She told Williams a familiar story of French Quarter trespass: She'd hit the clubs the night before, she said. Drank a lot. Met a man. Went to his house. And awoke the next morning to find him on top of her, naked. But she told Williams she had never said yes to sex.

Williams typed up a brief report. He labeled the incident a rape. But Case No. I-31494-13 wasn't quite ordinary. The accuser was a former cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints. And the alleged rapist was Darren Sharper, a hero of the Saints' 2009 Super Bowl team, former Pro Bowl player and broadcast analyst for the league's television network.

News of the Sept. 23, 2013 incident quickly shot up the ranks. New Orleans' police superintendent and top prosecutor were briefed. In the weeks that followed, police records show that Williams gathered evidence. He got a warrant to collect a sample of Sharper's DNA. It matched a swab taken from the woman's body. Witnesses told of seeing Sharper with the intoxicated woman at a club, and later at his condo. Video footage confirmed Sharper and the woman had been together.


more

http://digg.com/2015/inside-the-police-failure-to-stop-darren-sharpers-rape-spree

In fact, how is meeting online any less safe then meeting in a bar or a supermarket or a laundromat and so on?

Met my first wife at a laundromat and my second wife on a dial up computer service by the name of CIS before the internet was open to the public.

Do not see how my first wife was taking less of a risk dating me and being alone with me for the first time then my current wife was taking, just because of how we met and became aware of each other for the first time.

In fact, my wife and I had over 6 months of talking over the CIS network and by phone and getting a far better sense of each other then I have with my first wife after one brief conversation in the laundromat before showing up at her door for our first date.

One wonder why in the cases where there is little or no question that a woman had level false charges again a man or men that they are not being expel for doing so.

I had yet to hear that "Jackie" had been expel from UWA for example or that even her real name being released for that matter.

To say nothing about the question, that so call sexual assaults, are now being define as for example attempting to kissed a woman repeat attempting to kissed a woman who is unhappy about the attempted.

Doesn't anything about the fact that there are hundred and thousands of "legitimate" rapes, and the fact that there's ONE case of misreported incident of a rape even register with you?

Guess which fact gets your sole attention.

Far more then one case, see the story of the Duke lacrosse "gang rape" case as a case in point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case

Rapes are rare on college campuses and even far more so when it come to gang rapes!!!!!!!

You need to have a very poor view of men to think that large numbers of college males would likely be willing to take part in gang raping some woman.

Only by defining "sexual assaults" as someone for example trying to force a unwelcome kiss can you get the crazy numbers that had been reported for not rape but "sexual assaults" on those college surveys.

Again. Thousands of cases on my side. Your only one case (one that admits something happened) is proof my thousands of cases are suspect.

Nope. That dog won't hunt.