RAPE
Julie Muhlstein is wrong about rape (July 14 “It’s time to talk about rape). Responsibility is never shared in rape. It wasn’t shared back East in the gang rape of a woman by many men on a billiard table in a tavern with the crowd watching. It wasn’t shared in the rape of an intoxicated 17-year-old girl by a local deputy. Nor in any of the other ghastliness we hear about.
This awful case was not under-age drinking got out of control. It was a brutal sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl, injured so badly she needed blood transfusions. To say she should share some of the responsibility is to maybe say she asked for it. And that’s not politically incorrect, that’s Neanderthal once again.
These guys were, in a way, almost predatory in going to the mall, picking up three young girls, taking them to a motel and bringing out the booze. Unless they’re seasoned drinkers, it wouldn’t take too long to get them drunk and wasn’t that the point? The agenda was sex and if you have to take it violently and in a gang, that’s apparently OK too.
It makes no difference how young or old, or if you’ve used terribly poor judgment, the victim does not share responsibility for being raped. This act is violent and all-controlling and monstrously self-center and just very evil.
I think if this was Muhlstein’s daughter her perspective would be different.
Arlington
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