NFEEAAGH. This is an accurate impression of me trying not to post but my fingers took over. Anyway.
Two points.
One. repton_infinity (hi, have we met?) makes one of my constant points about the problems with sex crimes. In muggings, "all" you have to do (which is not necessarily easy) is to prove that the suspect wapped the victim over the head and took their monies. In rape cases, it's not enough to prove that the suspect and the victim had sex, not even in what seems to be a somewhat kinky and strange way, to prove rape. You have to prove that it wasn't consentual (is that a word?).
Two. The judiciary as a whole are not insensitive horrible old farts who hate young women and believe they all lie. You don't know *anything* about their feelings, when they for instance have to judge the evidence as not satisfactory. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but this sort of prejudice pisses me off every single time I see it.
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Date: 2007-05-25 11:19 am (UTC)Two points.
One. repton_infinity (hi, have we met?) makes one of my constant points about the problems with sex crimes. In muggings, "all" you have to do (which is not necessarily easy) is to prove that the suspect wapped the victim over the head and took their monies. In rape cases, it's not enough to prove that the suspect and the victim had sex, not even in what seems to be a somewhat kinky and strange way, to prove rape. You have to prove that it wasn't consentual (is that a word?).
Two. The judiciary as a whole are not insensitive horrible old farts who hate young women and believe they all lie. You don't know *anything* about their feelings, when they for instance have to judge the evidence as not satisfactory. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but this sort of prejudice pisses me off every single time I see it.