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Friday, February 17, 2006
No Means... What again?
From the moment that guys in the US realize that girls might not have cooties, they're told one thing over and over again- No means "NO". Not "maybe"... not "in a little while"... not "I'm just joking." Evidently it's not the same in Italy.
Predators who commit sexual assaults come up with all kinds of excuses to explain away their evil. The woman was asking for it by the way she dressed. If she's willing to go so far, then she was willing to go all the way. If her job is less than... honorable, then it can't be rape if she's being paid by others to do it. A man can't rape his estranged wife because they're married, after all, and they're just doing what married people do. And a teenage girl who said "yes" to someone else meant to say "yes" to every single man who asks.
"You can't rape the willing" is one of the most horrid sentences I've ever heard. She wasn't willing, and it was rape.
I can only hope that he father is Sicilian and has some friends in low places. Capiche?
Italy's highest court ruled Friday that a man who raped the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend can seek to have his sentenced reduced because the girl was sexually active, news reports said.Technically, the high court is right in one way... but not in the conclusion they reached. Since the girl was sexually active, she was more developed that some girls her age. She KNEW what he was doing to her, and she KNEW she didn't want to have sex with him, and she KNEW what he was doing was wrong.
... His request was rejected, but Italy's high court said the judges should re-evaluate the decision because the girl "since the age of 13 had had many sexual relations with men of every age."
"And it's right to assume," the ruling went on, according to ANSA, "that at the time of the encounter with the suspect her personality, from a sexual point of view, was much more developed than what one might normally expect from a girl of her age."
Predators who commit sexual assaults come up with all kinds of excuses to explain away their evil. The woman was asking for it by the way she dressed. If she's willing to go so far, then she was willing to go all the way. If her job is less than... honorable, then it can't be rape if she's being paid by others to do it. A man can't rape his estranged wife because they're married, after all, and they're just doing what married people do. And a teenage girl who said "yes" to someone else meant to say "yes" to every single man who asks.
"You can't rape the willing" is one of the most horrid sentences I've ever heard. She wasn't willing, and it was rape.
I can only hope that he father is Sicilian and has some friends in low places. Capiche?
