Rape has been re-defined to suit the advocates of fear: those who want women to be afraid of everything to control them. But crying “wolf” has an opposite effect, creating greater real threat to women. At a party in California, a 17-year-old girl consented to sex with two boys. While the second was having his way she said, “I should be going now,” but he continued for two more minutes. These facts are not disputed. She had given consent and never said stop nor resisted. The Supreme Court of California convicted the 17-year-old boy of rape. Consider the power this gives women; how much men are at the mercy of their whim. Is this the real motive for crying “female victim?” As a crime, we all know that rape is under-reported. So in 1981, Professor Margaret Gordon of the University of Washington, who had made rape one of her areas of study, found an incidence rate of 1 in 50. A 1993 Harris Pole found 1 in 50 women had been raped in the last 5 years, and none of its 2,500 randomly selected women reported rape by a friend or husband. Date-rape showed an incidence rate of zero. Yet when Mary Koss, professor of psychology at Kent State, who had never worked in this area, did a survey for a 1985 issue of Ms Magazine, she managed to find that 1 in 4 women had been raped during just their college years. This was sensational so is the number recited by activists and widely used by journalist and politicians. It fetches tons of money for college programs to scare female students and create an atmosphere of suspicion, even though there is, in fact, only one-half a confirmed rape per college campus per year throughout the U.S. How did she find such a high number? By defining rape as “going too far.” Women thoughtlessly fail to write their personal limits on their blouses leaving men to find out by trial. When a pair of journalists from Toledo, Ohio reviewed her study and removed things such as those who did not themselves even think they’d been raped, they found even her survey gave a rate of 1 in 33. The conflicting studies are detailed by Christine Hoff Sommers in her book, Who Stole Feminism? The 2000 British Crime Survey found that only 1 in 217 women were raped per year, yet so much hysteria has been generated by feminist emotional bullying that the UK adopted a policy to increase rape convictions. One victim is 27-year-old Baron Bloom. A 14-year-old girl admits she insisted she was 18 and sent Mr. Bloom flowers and e-mails to gain his attention, and got it. When he broke off she sent him hate letters and laid a charge of sexual misconduct. He was convicted. She was guilty of sexual misconduct, not he. One effect of all this is that any man who would have anything to do with any woman must also enjoy pouring tabasco sauce on his sores. Another is this. Years ago I dated a girl who had been abducted by two men at knife point. They drove her to the country and repeatedly violated her. For years she’d wake up in a sweat and suffered flashbacks. That was rape. I wanted those men gutted. But today, if a woman tells me she’s been raped I say, “So has everyone. I think it’s time to de-criminalized it like marijuana.” Calling everything abuse and rape not only endangers innocent men, but women subjected to real horror. ©2007 KC Wilson To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. - Marilyn French
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