Posted on 11/20/2014 8:42:22 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If Aesop were here he might rewrite his famous fable, replacing the boy who cried “wolf!” with the girl who cried “rape!” The cry of “rape” is used so carelessly that it’s often impossible to get to the truth of an accusation. When rape was a capital offense it was a rare and vicious crime which required a court of law to apply justice. It was underreported, since the rapist usually took advantage of those who felt too vulnerable even to say anything about it.
Contemporary accusations of rape are frequent, often made by women at prestigious colleges whose accusations are often perceived as ambiguous at best. The suspects are tried and convicted in the social media where reputations are ruined on the hearsay of “he said, she said.” Such accusations, on campus as elsewhere, are often factually challenged and convictions in the court of public opinion can be based on emotions, sometimes articulated long after the event. Did Bill Cosby, for example, rape that company of accusers 30 years ago? We’ll likely never know.
Emma Sulkowicz is known as the “mattress girl” at Columbia University, enjoying her 15 minutes of fame as the poster girl of the campus “rape culture,” celebrated in a story in New York magazine, where she is shown carrying what she calls “the scene of the crime” on her back.
Her accusation is simple and graphic. She accuses the man with whom she was having a session of consensual sex of taking anal liberties without permission. She says she said “No” and tried to fight him off with leg action. He persisted. He argues that Emma is a fencer whose legs were strong enough to obstruct him if she wanted. He’s a lightweight rower. Macho man, this “rapist” is not.
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Do you remember what you were doing when Reagan was shot?
Yes. I remember getting home from school ((2nd grade) and my Grandmother was completely freaking the f*** out, both praying and swearing in Italian. I then ran over to the TV and watched. Very sad at the time.
But God interceded, and we were blessed for the next ~8 years.
Thank You, Lord.
Reagan broke the “Curse of Tippecanoe”. Every President elected or reelected in a year ending in zero had died in office, from 1840 though 1960.
Yes. I remember a HS teacher I had back in ‘87 commenting on “if” RR woukd break that curse.
Piece of sh*t.
“...no RATS to be seen anywhere in any capacity....”
Why, GOPster!!! Are you going “Utopian” on us???!?!
What splendid imagery!!!! A Dem-free land!
:^)
“...Do you remember what you were doing when Reagan was shot?...”
Yes... gasping in horror at it...
Correct. Cosby’s middle name is now Rapist. It will be to the end of his days, which hopefully will come soon. He should kill himself.
That’s a pretty lousy thing to say.
So, you’re the judge and the jury on it? Do you have some special inside knowledge that proves he did it?
What part of “Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” isn’t clear?
I would outlaw the RAT Party, period. I would outlaw most/all opposition parties, minus, say, Natural Law or Libertarian-type micro parties, period.
It would be Utopia, yes; we would have achieved “that shining city on the hill” that RR spoke of so many times.
Yep.
No sh*t, right?
Your wise words have led me to believe that what Cosby really needs is treatment, and that this is the best place for it: Dignitas of Switzerland
” Anyone can vote for whoever they choose but my beef is those like him and Powell who use their fame to get others to vote for Obama. “
No getting around this.
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