Common factor? Misogyny.
That is ridiculous. It is not misogyny to say that women can be capable of vicious and predatory behavior, just as men can be. I will grant you that male rape of females will always be much more common than the reverse because of the biological differences, but simply acknowledging that the reverse is possible is beyond you.
As an earlier poster pointed out, many of the women on this thread who have actually experienced rape have no difficulty sympathizing with and believing “Mike.” I suppose we’re all misogynists too?
This is about one person treating another person like dirt, like a thing. It’s not OK when men do it to women, it’s not OK when women do it to men, it’s not OK when adults do it to kids. And I don’t get why some people’s compassion dries up entirely when a victim falls outside their little magic circle of People We Should Have Compassion For. Women, check, kids, check. But feel sympathy, or empathy, for a man? And a Marine, at that? Oh, come now, that’s asking too much.
