From August 13, 2007: Terrible advice from San Francisco Women Against Rape.
This august organisation was founded in 1973, and has undoubtedly been dispensing bad advice from its inception, but the four links below are all from the SFWAR website archived by the Wayback Machine as shown.
The first link, archived August 13, 2007, dispenses some good advice for rape victims: find a safe environment and ask a trusted friend to stay with you.
Then we hear the feminist mantra: know what happened was not your fault. Yup, after Mary Vincent was raped repeatedly by psycho Larry Singleton, after he hacked off her arms below the elbow then threw her off a cliff, she must have needed some heavy persuasion that it wasn’t her fault. How many real rape victims feel the kind of guilt implied here?
Our second link, archived February 6, 2012, tells us it is recommended you seek medical attention within 72 hours. Nope, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible. Next, we are told you may or may not choose to file a police report. Nope, if a woman has genuinely been raped, filing a police report should not be an optional extra. For one thing, the crime scene can be preserved. For another, if the perpetrator is a serial rapist you are failing in your public duty to report this crime, because even if it wasn’t a life-shattering experience for you, it may be for his next victim, or even a life-ending one.
Our third link, archived July 1, 2014, tells us that medical attention should be sought within 5 days. In other words, their advice is getting worse. Again, reporting to the police is presented as an option.
Our fourth and final link, archived February 15, 2015, repeats this bad advice of seeking medical treatment within 5 days instead of 5 minutes. When I accessed this page on January 19, 2020, the advice was the same.
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