, the women have absolutely no empathy with this male victim of coerced sex, but if their bosses at the office hit them up this way, well, there would be hell to pay, lawyers to pay, and the justice system may even exact its pound of flesh too.
It is unfortunate that this thread has turned into some sort of bashing women thread, since it seems like the most inflamatory remarks (ie, get over it) have come from men. And yet somehow, is the women who are at fault? I’m confused by this.
The consensus of this thread seems to be pretty reasonable:
1. The majority thinks the sex she had with him while he was unconscious is rape.
2. The jury is split on whether the stuff that happened due to blackmail is rape, and the laws don’t seem to support that that is rape.
3. It’s not a good idea to get drunk and hang out in hotel rooms with strangers.
4. A few people doubt the veracity of the story.
All this is reasonable, and there is no reason to fly off the handle about it. The doubt is the only thing that could be irritating, but when you are dealing with strangers on the internet, you just never know.
As for the larger issues, I am bit concerned with the anti-woman tone of this. Rape in general is very he said/she said in the first place, which makes it hard to punish. In a court of law, you can prove that two people were together or not, you can prove that they had sex or not and you can prove that there was some sort of violent action. If none of this occurs, you may have a problem proving it either way. This is why I am uncomfortable with the idea of prosecuting women who accuse men of rape, unless it can be without a doubt proven that they maliciously lied.
Furthermore, on this topic, I often hear from men that women are throwing false accusations around alot, particularly when stuff like the Kobe Bryant trial happens. But of all the women I know who have been raped, none of them filed charges. So there is a weird dynamic there, with some crazy women throwing accusations around and a bunch of other women actually getting raped, and being afraid to report it because all the men will think she’s like those women who throw the accustaions around and try to apparently blackmail men.
