November 2013: The above pamphlet by Liz Wall and Cindy Tarczon is published by the Australian Centre For The Study Of Sexual Assault.
The authors do not appear to be fully paid up members of the sisterhood, but feminism isn’t the only dogma that makes people spout rubbish about rape. Here is a doozy from page 5:
Citing feminist airhead Jan Jordan, we are told:
“...86% of complainants who had delayed reporting were viewed suspiciously. The reality is that there are often delays in reporting sexual assault for many reasons including the trauma of reliving the event, shame and embarrassment, fear of retribution from the perpetrator or others, fear of social consequences...”
In reality, the two most frequent reasons for contumelious delay in reporting are a woman who has consented to sex rewriting a possibly sordid encounter as rape over a period of time, or simply lying.
The Rodney Anderson case is a classic example of the former, while the video on this page is my all-time favourite clip of this nature; if you haven’t seen it before, it shows what can happen when a false accuser doesn’t delay reporting her allegation.
This quote – their own – is even better:
“Sir Matthew Hale’s now infamous words to a jury in 1847 demonstrate the attitudes behind this when he commented that accusations of rape were easily made, hard to prove and even harder to defend”.
Sir Matthew Hale said no such thing, at least not to a jury. He died on Christmas Day, 1676. This quote is from his major work which was published posthumously, and republished in 1847. He backs up his claim citing two actual cases, one from personal experience.
There is a lot more in this pamphlet about stereotyping, etc, the usual flim-flam.
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