And therein lies the PC roadkill that totally skews this issue.
Coerced sex is technically any sex that wasn't the woman's idea in the first place, while she was sober and well rested. The whole thing is purely subjective and is entirely impossible to prove one way or the other. Coerced and Forced are not interchangeable words.
Sex against ones will due to a knife to the throat of serious repercussions to career etc is rape in my book.
You're naeive if you define rape as physically forced to put out or physically so restrained intercourse cannot be avoided.
And you're totally wrong if you assign blame to the woman - the man can choose NOT to force himself on the woman. He can choose NOT to violate her. No matter what she does if she says no, that is it. If he forces himself despite a no, it is rape, whether done with a knife of threats to career, job., family or whatever.
You're essentially saying that if a woman is told 'either have sex with me or I kill your entire family' she is not forced to have sex, rather she is coerced. I find that ridiculous.
Still a BS way to track things. If you knew some of the people (men and women) that went into the military, you'd undestand the room for things like this to happen.
Sure, it will happen. But the blame is on the men who do it. Not the women. Not society. Not the institutions. Those entities aren't forcing the man to violate the woman.
You'll also find many of the same issues in regards to what is able to be charged. Its very difficult to prove these situations... especially in the greyer "I was coerced" sides of the house... or when alchohol was involved and judgement/memory is impared.
That's up to a jury to decide in that case. I'm talking about where to place blame.
I'm not trying to excuse rape, nor say the women could have avoided the situation all together. I wasn't there. I am trying to say that the Academies do a decent job given the concentration of testosteron on the campus in comparison to other schools.
And you're implicitly saying that because the woman engaged in high risk activities, she should have expected it. I.e she was partly to blame for it.
I disagree with this. You might like drinking with your friends and do so without having any urge to get shagged by them. We have Rule of Law - and yer entitled to drink with friends, and they're not entitled to shag you without your consent.
I get REALLY upset when people say it's the girls own fault. She didn't elect to get raped. The MEN doing the RAPING ACTIVELY make a choice. They are to blame.
Sure the girl can minimize the risk, but when a rape happens, it's the criminal doing the rape that is to blame for it.
I am on the shooting range,putting up targets. I could be somewhere else, thus minimizing the risk of getting shot. Now the bastard at the other end DELIBERATELY aim for me and shoots me. Who's to blame - me or him? Should I accept part of the blame because I was on the shooting range, knowing that he might get a psychosis and decide to shoot me? Hell no. Sure, I entered into it knowing about the risk, fair enough. But the blaim is solely in one place - on the person deliberately taking action.
You send them to the Academy to learn to behave proffessionally. There is a reason you have to teach them. They are kids that need to be turned into men.
And thy aren't turned into men by letting them get away wth rape. If anything, rape should be so vigorously prosecuted that those kids learn it's wrong mo matter what.
Prison can incidentally also turn boys into men. That should be on the kids minds. Not protecting them after they rape.
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