I was reading through the comments to an article on the Daily Mail site, here. Most of the comments are just parroting the PC line in response to the main thrust (pun intended) of the article, some select quotes I’ll post below.
Date rape should be treated differently from attacks on women by strangers, John Redwood has said
“None of us want men to rape women, but there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street, and a disagreement between two lovers over whether there was consent on one particular occasion.
“Labour’s doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man’s word against the woman’s and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together.”
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker, who is in charge of rape policy, said yesterday: “It is just a month since David Cameron said that too many men were committing rape because they think they can get away with it.
“Now one of his closest advisors is trying to create an artificial difference between stranger and date rape. I have made it clear that rape is rape, wherever it happens. It does not matter who commits it or what the circumstances are.
“In fact, almost 90 per cent of rapes are committed by men who know their victims, so this type of rape is the biggest problem we have to deal with – not something to be dismissed as a lesser crime.
So what fuck is date rape? I remember the hysteria that evil men were spiking innocent girls drinks with date rape drugs. Why the hell that got so much attention (apart from the fact it helps portray women as victims and men as perpetrators) boggles the mind, considering it was an extreme minority of cases, many of which end up not being date rape drugs, but alcohol related. Read the rest of this entry »
