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TexasTowelie

(112,089 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 03:59 AM Nov 2016

How seriously do D.C. police take rape allegations? A Georgetown party raises doubts.

What she wore doesn’t matter. What she drank or smoked or snorted doesn’t matter.

Rape is rape, and it needs to be taken seriously even when the circumstances surrounding it are murky.

It’s a distinction we’re still having a hard time with, apparently.

The latest example: an alleged rape last month at an annual Halloween bacchanal in Georgetown.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-seriously-do-dc-police-take-rape-allegations-a-georgetown-party-raises-doubts/2016/11/28/dbcb62e4-b58c-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html

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How seriously do D.C. police take rape allegations? A Georgetown party raises doubts. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2016 OP
It's not merely DC police. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2016 #1

PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. It's not merely DC police.
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 05:00 AM
Nov 2016

It's police everywhere. And at all times. Women have always been assumed to be lying, or to be of sufficiently dubious moral character that her claim of rape is to be suspect.

Which is why I sincerely wish that all men who doubt such claims should be raped themselves. And no, don't accuse me of being unsympathetic or some such. Men who think good women can't be raped need to experience rape themselves. Period. At least they won't have to worry about getting pregnant, while raped women who become pregnant are often accused of not really having been raped, meaning they must have acquiesced to the sex.

Fuckers.

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