I am sure if, Dr. Helen< you had removed genders from the story, people would line up solidly behind the victim. The comments prove the point though. Most people only see rape as penetration, and the perp is the one doing that. It’s a crock, but there it is. The comments about how this wouldn’t happen to a real man are also a crock. Hate to tell you this guys, but ANY woman can scream rape, and you will be face down in handcuffs fast enough to make your head spin. The police may determine later that she was lying, but that won’t take away the night or nights in jail proving your innocence, IF you can. People who think that is impossible, have never been close to it… I’ve been the guy to bail out a friend with the psycho ex-girlfriend who was blackmailing, and screamed it.
The DA dropped it when we could conclusively prove he was elsewhere.
Just because women can use soft-power to do this, doesn’t mean it is different*. The guy has figured out, no doubt, how hard it is to get any services for this. Hopefully he has friends to back him up over the long haul.
*yes, it’s a different scenario to take advantage of a man, but, it is also a different kind of wound. In effect you take away his manhood for some amount of time, because all his strength and power can be co-opted. He has no answer for that. Unlike a woman who will get sympathy from almost everyone, a man gets derision from many of his peers, and most women won’t believe him if he says anything about it.
