“The motivation of lust vs. hatred gives many rapists a handy excuse for why they shouldn't be legally accountable for their actions. It wasn't my boyfriend's lust or sexual hormones which caused him to rape me, it was his belief that his lust trumped my lack of consent. Unwanted sex (on my part) became acceptable to him. That made his actions about power and control not sex. This demand for a specific and monstrous motive is not a requirement in physical assaults or any other non-sex crime and it is not a requirement in sexual assaults.”
—Marcella Chester, Rape Denial Through Melodramatic Imagining Of Rape: Part 2“Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it. I took her home and enjoyed that, she ain't even know it.”
—Rick Ross rapping about date raping a woman.
When responding to the public backlash, Rick gave this half-ass apology (if it can even be considered an apology): “woman is the most precious gift known to man. You understand. There was a misunderstanding with a lyric or a misinterpretation. The term rape wasn’t used. I would never use the term rape in my records.”
Bristol's Innocence
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.comIn Bristol Palin’s new memoir, she essentially accuses Levi Johnston of date rape after revealing the night she lost her virginity to him, she was drunk on wine coolers, and didn’t remember a thing. She was apparently honest with her parents later on the loss of her virginity. She also calls him “a gnat” that “cheated on her as often as he sharpened his hockey skates.” Later, appearing with him at the GOP convention, she wrote it “somehow legitimized us as a couple.”
Predictably, the media is seizing upon the “how I lost my virginity” narrative, but there’s a few seriously disturbing things here: First, she’s accusing the father of her child of rape. Second, the Palins encouraged her to remain with Levi, knowing the circumstances of their first sexual encounter, and paraded Bristol and Levi around as an ideal teenage couple, rather than encouraging their daughter to leave (and report) an abusive rapist (if that’s what happened).
Let me restate that: If the allegations are true, they wanted her to marry her rapist.
Family values? Not ones I support.
Rape Culture.
“In short, rape apologism shifts. When it’s a “date rape” people will say “how do we know she didn’t consent? It’s not like she’s covered in bruises.” When she’s covered in bruises, the victim in question will simply “like it rough.” When the woman is unconscious and therefore can’t just “like it rough,” she will be accused of misidentifying her attacker, or people will argue “well, she didn’t say no.” When she does say no, it’s “why didn’t she fight? He didn’t have a weapon.” When she did fight back or he did have a weapon, it’s “well there’s no DNA evidence.” When there’s DNA evidence, it’s “well he probably did it, but it’s not like there were any witnesses …” “
-Cara Kulwicki (Click here for source)
