Define it out of existence.
If you're "motherly", you can't be raped.
From the article: "I understand her reaction. I did not fall into the stereotype of rape victims. I did not look like a whore. I appeared motherly."
and
If you actually are a sex-worker, you can't be raped.
From the article: "She consented and she didn't get paid . . . I thought it was a robbery."
I know you can't actually draw a pattern from two points, but, wow.
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To be fair, the quote from the first article acknowledges to some degree, by using the word 'stereotype', that there is a false sense of who rape victims are.
That quote was from the victim, though- not the judge. My criticism isn't on the victims, but on the people who are reinforcing the stereotypes.
Sorry Roy for the confusion...you used the quote from the victim, so I misread you as critiquing her take on what a rape victim 'looks like'.
Hey, I was wondering how you happened upon the second story?
Honestly, I don't remember, exactly. I remember reading about the case on a number of different blogs- it might have been over at The Curvature?
Anyway, I remembered reading about it, so I did a google search to find it again.
Get the irony? The woman in the first quote thought she couldn't be raped because she didn't look like a "whore," and the person in the second quote thinks "whores" can't be raped.
Now how does one decide whether rape is for the slutty or for the virginal?
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