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I am incensed with news coverage about rape. Three primary aged girls were attacked in a park and the police are questioning a fourteen year old boy. The news reports insist on saying "suspected rape" and "alleged attack". It disgusts me. When I look at the headline of newspaper, if there's ever a story about rape, it always has liberal use of quote marks. Girl, 15 "raped" by gang. "Police hunt for suspect in "sex attack". This isn't about presuming innocence of suspect before they are proven guilty (or more accurately, let go without charge, or in the unlikely event of a court case, get found 'innocent'), it's about making sure that everyone understands that women lie, that most so-called 'rapes' are stupid sluts changing their mind, or just making it up all together.

I have never seen a report saying "family angry after 'burglary'", or "man in hospital after 'mugging'". The victims of those crimes aren't automatically disbelieved, even though there's no proof that mugging victims didn't hide their money, stab themselves and throw themselves downstairs to get some bruises. Or that people don't say "please take my stuff" and then decide they didn't mean it and they want the police involved. It's just rape, and it's purely about casting women as liars. It's revolting.

Livejournal Poll RESULTS! Only not, because it was anonymous, obv.

Right. There is apparently a whole lot of sexin' going on which I appear to be missing out on. This is hardly fair. Fair would be spreading it around equally. Okay, so that means that everyone only gets like five minutes of groping, but I feel that's better than a select few getting all the goodness. (Of course, since I have thought of this, I get to have lots of sex. Uh oh, that's how communism keeps tripping up...) The sex and lesser spotted varieties of that type weren't included in the poll because I was more interested in things that people had done specifically for other people, kind of altruism, however small. I think I personally would be incapable of having altruistic sex, although I am more than willing to try in the pursuit of a good time cause.

( Apart from the sex, here's what I found interesting. )