[af_vet_1981]

A long time ago I read about a soldier who was acquitted of rape because the court agreed that nobody ever dragged a woman into an upper bunk to rape her. Makes sense if you think about it.

That is patently false. A perp can intimidate a victim and manipulate compliance through fear. I wish all victims were brave enough to fight and die but that is not the case. They want to live.

[Restorer]

The point is that a rapist would be unlikely to use a top bunk when a bottom bunk was available. Less work and all. Making it far more likely that the "victim" climbed into the top bunk willingly.

I am as anxious as anybody to punish genuine rapists. However, as a male I am frightened by those who want to take any woman's word automatically over any man's.

Women do lie, about rape and other things, just as men do and children do.

In no other crime is the criminality of the actions utterly dependent on the attitude of the "victim." Exactly the same actions are perfectly legal if she is willing and criminal if she is not.

The only real parallel to this I can think of is abortion. The unborn baby is exactly that if the mother wants it, and just a mass of cells if she does not.