Is it “absurd” to think that a woman might unjustly accuse a man of rape after consensual sex if she thinks she might benefit from it being thought of as rape rather than her being thought of as “loose” or “immoral” or a “n*gger lover”?
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Well that is one shaggy dog story.
These stereotypes date from the 1960’s and earlier. The world has changed.
When I used to live in Manhattan there were all the time stories about white women jogging in the park who would be raped and murdered. The perps were never white guys. Everyone would wonder. What were these dumb women thinking? Why did they go to bad sections of the park at the wrong time. Why didn’t someone clue them in?
Answer is they likely weren’t listening. They’d read To Kill A Mockingbird. End of Story.
These days the perps for these kinds of atrocities are likely as not to be illegal aliens.
The last big name perp of this kind was the illegal who killed Chandra Levey. But really, this stuff happens all the time. It just doesn’t make the headlines.
Was Chuck Berry “absurd” to think that he had to protect himself from the “consensual until caught” scenario?
How specifically would reading TKaMB make a woman think it might be safe to jog in Central Park? Nothing in TKaMB had anything to do with the scenario you are suggesting, rape by a stranger of a different race.
The TKaMB scenario was more like a Kobe Bryant situation. He says they had sex, she says she was raped. Was it absurd to consider that Kobe might have been innocent, or based upon the accusation of any white woman and based upon racial crime statistics, it would be “absurd” to consider Kobe innocent until proven guilty by actual evidence?