Rape Rant

If you don't think that a person who is accusing another person of rape should be taken on their word always and no matter what, you're not what I would classify as a feminist and this message shouldn't upset you.

 If you do think that, I would like to know why you think that anything could justify stripping someone of human rights, particularly something as shaky as the testimony of a person who would be more than happy to wield the power of make-people-go-away-forever.

No. I don't believe you when you say you were raped just like I don't believe you when you say you didn't rape someone.

That stems, of course, from my tendency to not believe people. False reporting is one of the only things you can count on and there is no reason, not even an accusation of the crime of rape, that makes a person's word worth anything even remotely resembling actual evidence.

If you are raped, have a rape kit done; otherwise, you're destroying evidence. There is no good reason for you to ask the justice system to bend over backwards and strip people of due process just because you had the poor judgement to destroy what is very likely the only real evidence of a crime that was committed against you.

If anyone is enabling any sort of rape culture that might exist somewhere, it's the people who are raped and then don't have a rape kit done and the people who defend that type of person. Fine. Let rapists get away with rape. Sorry. I was under the impression that you thought rape was a terrible crime. Shouldn't a person who thinks that way be empowering rape victims to fight back?

I am indeed victim blaming. Any rape victim who destroys evidence of the crime committed against them is absolutely 100% to blame when the alleged rapist is not convicted. It's not up to the justice system to accept BS evidence standards. It's up to the victim to preserve evidence.

If someone runs a red light and hits you, you don't tell them they should leave before the cops show up unless you want them to get away with running a red light and hitting you. And if you do tell them to leave and they do actually end up leaving and it turns out that no traffic cameras caught the accident, who could possibly be blamed for that person getting away with running a red light and hitting you aside from you yourself and you? Is it up to the judge to convict someone who you say ran the red light and hit you with an otherwise complete lack of evidence.
(Answer Key: Nobody, No.)

Without evidence standards, criminal trials are nothing more than witch hunts. Yes, having standards for evidence means that the guilty walk sometimes but it also means that the innocent walk the vast majority of the time. Under Puritan and Feminist law, nobody walks away from an accusation. Everyone accused is sentenced. I, for one, value the freedom of the innocent far more than I value the punishment of the guilty.

-Ben