Let’s pretend that the word “rape” is non-existent in our lexicon. Now, use your intelligence to come up with descriptive and defining phrases and words to cover what was done to “Mike.”
I don’t need to use my intelligent. A perfectly adequate phrase exists: sexual assault. This is how I’d describe what happened to Mike.
How does this differ from how some boss would grope a female subordinate when everyone else has left the office and only those two are left behind?
It doesn’t differ in that neither would be rape. A grope isn’t a rape, nor is a sexual assault.
I find it fascinating that so many commenters at PJM on my recent Mac Donald thread called the women lying sluts and disbelieved everything they said. These women, so it went, should not have got drunk etc.
Now they are saying that men should always be believed no matter what.
Common factor? Misogyny.
