Letters to the Editor
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Sorry of this is a little off-topic, Broadsheet:
But I think this kind of news story falls-into your general sphere of interest:
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=55792&provider=top
8 and 9 year old boys were accused of raping an 11 year old girl. How on earth could you have not noticed this?
Here's a quote...
“The father of one of the two 8-year-old suspects spoke with WXIA’s Kevin Rowson and said his son told him that everything that happened in the woods was consensual. Brandon LeBlanc said the girl accused the boys only after her parents had learned she had sexual relations... “This is a clear case of a girl who didn’t want to get in trouble with her parents.”
Speaking on CNN, Acworth Police Chief Mike Wilkie reacted, “We can certainly understand why a father would speak defensively of his child.”
“That accusation has an implication that children at that age can consent to that type of act, and, of course, they cannot. That’s illegal, they cannot have consent, so we have to go forward with the charges that we have.”
So an 11 year old girl can't consent, but an 8 year old boy can consent? How does that work, exactly? Girls are always so much more mature than boys, right? And remember: Teh Oppressive Patriarchy always judges and punishes women more harshly than men, so how does this logic go?
And isn't it odd that the girl only said she was attacked when her parents threatened to punish her? I mean, we all know that women don't lie about rape... Like this one, for instance http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2007/11/sexual_assault
In fact, you wonder a lot of things about this child-rape case: how can a 3rd-grader even have sex? Should "playing doctor" be criminalized as well? In the videos about this, the girl seems a lot bigger than the boys who attacked her, so how could that physically work?
And seeing how feminist agitation about sexual harassment has led to the expulsion of kindergarten boys for hugging their classmates, wouldn't you agree that this kind of thing is a logical extension of feminist agitation about rape? No? How can it not be?
Broadsheet, you awake? I thought no female victim ever escaped your view?