It is difficult to see how this Marine could have gotten away from this trouble once she had lowered the boom on him. If he did not cooperate, he would be accused of rape. A Marine, off-base, drunk, and in a hotel room with a woman he barely knew was in a no-win situation. There is NO WAY the police or his commanding officer are going to believe him and reject her story. The threat of jail, for the naive among some posters on this blog, is pretty terrifying to a 19-year old guy. This was a pretty well set up power play on that woman’s part. She knew what she was doing and executed her plan to perfection. He had no defense at all. None.
Yes, he was drunk. Yes, some would argue that he put himself in a position to be taken advantage of. Yet, who expects THIS to happen? Female rape of men is not exactly a common occurrence and can a 19 year old whelp REALLY expect to see this coming? And besides, the blame-the-victim mentality apparent in some posts is getting quite old. Maybe more experienced and wise older people are able to recognize some of the clues to evil that a sociopath/narcissist/personality disordered person can exhibit. Even so, you can’t see all of them coming. Some do hide it well.
In closing, to touch on one dimension to this I’ve beaten ad nauseam: I’m shocked by how little the moral dimension to this thing had been appreciated. The legal language/law aspect of it sure has been worked over, but I’m surprised by how few are the insights about the dimension of evil that permeates the crime. And I think we impoverished for it.
I guess I’m too old and old fashioned to thrive in this post-modernist culture.
