The rape card is a good one to play for a number of reasons. The first one being that it's hard to prove one way or another, without medical evidence, which one needs to get as soon as possible after the alleged event. Is there any medical evidence for the claims? Did the victims go to their doctors or hospitals? One would think this existed, because of the fears, given the nature of the allegations that the alleged women might have been infected with a sexually transmitted desease or even aids.
There's the emotive nature of rape charges. They are powerful because they underscore a primative feeling that the person, group, tribe, nation, has been violated by foreigners and the tribe's blood risks being tainted, diluted, occupied.
Is rape a fate worse than death, as the Victorian's supposed? What is so special about rape violence compared to other types of violence between individuals? Why, exactly, is sexual violence so bad? Young men, for example, often beat the shit out of each other, and then miraculously become best mates. It's rather odd. A bizarre right of passage perhaps?
I personally abhor violence against women of a sexual nature, against anyone for that matter.
In one of my lives I lived in a real slum for period. Yes, I was literally 'slumming it' a tourist in Hell, almost. I led a very sheltered and privileged life. I was stunned by the amount of drinking and dope smoking that went on around me. The drinking led to violence like clockwork. They'd argue about who's turn it was to buy cases of bear and who had cheated on some drug deal. Then, smashed out of the tiny minds they'd start shouting like banshees and then beating the shit out of each other. Men on men, women on women, women on men, men on women.
Like the fool I was, I stepped inbetween a guy who was beating on his pregnant girlfriend, thinking I was doing her a favour. I'd already called the police. They turned up, eventually, as I thought he was going to kill her, or the baby in that state. They were both stoned out of their minds. The girl turned on me for interfering, as it wasn't my business. The police arrived and were terribly amused as they knew the drug-dealer couple well and their special form of 'affection.' The next day, sober, they returned to being a 'loving' though stoned couple, bruised and battered, but still, apparently, in love. People are strange.
That's a bit of tangent. The point is that gender, sexual violence, is often far more complex, contradictory and weird, than nice middle class feminists understand. I worry about the consequencees of the New Moral Order the woke left is pushing so hard.
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