Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.