Assange is already getting abuse with his image being tarnished forever and he is only wanted for questioning.
I knew that discussing Assange and Ched Evans would result in abuse. I regret responding to it because I appreciate some of these women have been abused and probably still hurting. I can also understand women feeling angry that they don't get justice and what compounds the pain is when there is a conviction, people want to get the rapist out.
So let me make it clear. Rape is wrong and the rapist should go to prison. Women are never to blame for being raped.
Here is the law but I doubt many young men have read this or discussed it with their parents, assuming they have functional parents.
- · Acts intentionally;
- · (B) does not consent to the act; and
- · (A) does not reasonably believe that B consents.
If Ched Evans had sex with this girl just 18 months earlier the judge would have advised the jury to come back with a NOT GUILTY verdict.
"Easier to convict men"? That's not making it easier to catch a rapist, that is redefining the crime. That is a change to the definition of rape. I expected to see something in this piece on this change in the law of consensual sex. Considering that it could result in a man going to prison for 5 years. Sorry Ched, you should have read the new CPS guidelines!
12 months before the Ched Evans incident and it doesn’t come close to addressing the complexities of drunken consent and the importance of reasonable belief of consent. When men have had "NO MEANS NO!" drilled into them are you surprised a guy thinks "yes!" is ok?
Tulisa from X Factor claims she was too drunk to remember making a sex tape.
A man could possibly have endless encounters with drunk girls who don’t claim rape but then comes across one that takes offence to a sex tape on the net. The only thing a man can reasonably do is avoid drunken encounters. Are they? Of course not. Young, drunk and stupid men will be persuaded by the pull of pissed sirens. Many will escape but the odd one will pay the price of his lust. "But she said 'yes'! he cries to his mum as they cart him away. Clunk!
She goes on to say “I must have been very drunk to let my then boyfriend Justin Edwards, who I also know features in the video, take the footage.”
Is Tulisa lying about being too drunk to remember? That opens a whole new tin of worms that must never be opened.
Men have a perception of sex and women that needs to be dispelled but locking up young men who are products of the drink/sex culture without educating them is totally dismissing the "reasonable belief" part of the definition of rape.
Brendan O'Neill sums it up perfectly.
Until this "drunken consent" topic is addressed properly so that men are properly educated, they need to change there approach to drunk women who are potentially hazardous.
Gary Lee-Walters wrote this great article taken from The Barrister Magazine that looked at the whole problem in detail.
Thanks for reading.
Excuse mistakes - I make loads. will probably make some amendments.
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