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- From: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
- Subject: Re: Feminist=Equality? Errrr.... Nope.
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:02:45 GMT
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- In article <1jsu77INNlh4@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Just this guy) writes:
- >
- >>Don't you realize what a powerful weapon any woman has against any man
- >>if she is cruel enough?
- >
- >Don't you realize how costly it is for a woman (in terms of time, money,
- >and especially in terms of emotional stress) to make such a false
- >accusation. Rape trials are not much fun -- especially not with
- >society's "blame the victim" mentality and the "oh she's just a slut"
- >defense!
- >
-
-
- Boy, are you out of touch with modern times. The laws to prevent
- a woman's past sexual life to be used in evidence are almost 10 years
- old. In a recent case in New York, a woman's past record of 11 false rape
- accusations was ruled inadmissable because of the rape sheild laws.
- A woman who falsely accused a student of rape was never idenfitied to
- the press because of rape privacy laws while her alleged attacker
- found his photo on page one of the local paper, even AFTER he had documented
- being in another state at the time of the attack. Amy Fischer's
- career as a call girl is inadmissable in Joey Buttufuoco's trial on
- statutory rape charges, and the treatment of Ms. (I want a Ferarri) Fischer
- by the mainstream press continues to portray her as the ultimate victim
- in this affair, perfectly justified in pumping bullets into her oppressor.
-
- The San Diego DA, in trying to ensure that real victims will still feel
- no fear at coiming forward, has declined to press charges against the woman
- in the Nordstrom's rape fantasy case. While her name was released to the
- press at one point, her photo has not, again because the laws that protect
- an alleged victims privacy have no provisions for the possability of
- a false report.
-
- Whether it is hard or easy, the fact remains that rape is the most falsely
- reported crime in America, and there are women who cry rape to get back at
- their boyfriends and husbands, or just to get a little attention from the
- press and the hundreds of rape centers that have popped up
- across the country (all of whom must yearly "prove" the continuence
- of a rape epidemic or lose their public funding). The fact also remains
- that the courts have, for at least the last 5 years, treated the
- accused far more shabbily than the accuser, often ignoring his Constitutional
- rights in their haste to "prove" they have become sensative to the rape issue.
-
- However, I predict that the realization of how badly the legal system was
- suckered into this "guilt by acclimation" attitude will result in a
- very bad backlash whoes effects will be felt most by the REAL rape victims,
- who will find their credability destroyed right alongside all the little
- girls who cried "wolf".
- --
- Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
-