[157] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: New topic, Rape@MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhelinrentice L Scott)
Sat Apr 21 17:35:05 2001
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To: Kenneth Lu <kenlu@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:25:04 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:34:13 -0400
From: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>
I think what prevents women from reporting rapes are for some of
the following reasons:
1) There is ALWAYS a penalty in this society for standing up
for injustice.
2) This male dominated society has done whatever it wants to women
for years. Women just recieved some rights not too long ago.
3) The puritain ethic: It's the way people react when a victim
of sexual violence tells them. They ask, "What did YOU do to
instigate this???"
4) Usually rapes occur without witnesses, and it becomes
the woman's word against the man's in this male dominated society.
In addition women don't know how to gather evidence of their attack
by going straight to the hospital after they have been attacked.*
Zhe
*= I learned about the window of time for evidence retrival from
the Katie Kostener talk that I attended.
