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GreenKnight127 posted...

The #MeToo movement is (usually) adult women coming forward with their stories of a man (always multiple years ago, sometimes decades) harassing them, making them feel uncomfortable, etc.

Sure, but just like not all violent crimes are murder, not all sex crimes are rape.

And, in this particular case, the allegation is absolutely an attempted rape. Groping a girl and trying to tear off her bathing suit is not "making her feel uncomfortable."

GreenKnight127 posted...

And when it does happen, the woman was almost always in college at the time or older. She was an adult when it happened.

So? What does that mean?

That an adult can't get raped? Obviously, that's false. That an adult can tell someone? Well, so could a kid.

"But wait!", you say, "The kid was being abused by someone in a position of power! Someone who could intimidate them!" And that's true. Thing is, that's also true for most of the women accusing men in positions of power.

Which segues nicely into my next point...

GreenKnight127 posted...

Someone who could stand up for themselves if they chose to.

So it's not the attacker's fault for being a rapist, but the victim's fault for not "standing up for themselves"? For not having the presence of mind - in the aftermath of being the victim of a crime - to preserve evidence like some kind of CSI investigator? That's kind of sick, dude.

As to why they don't come forward, well, look what happened in this case. The woman accusing Kavanaugh has been doxxed by various conservative communities and has been subject to a torrent of abuse, including death threats. She's been forced to leave her home and live apart from her children. And that's in *today's* environment, when it's easier than ever for an accuser to find victim's support and people who will take her allegations seriously. Imagine what would happen if she - then a high-school student - had done this back when it first happened in the 80's.

Or don't and just read this instead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/opinions/arlington-texas/?utm_term=.e91576c37e5d

It's an account of a girl who was raped by two students during high school, immediately reported the crime and got a rape kit test taken (with the rape kit matching the DNA of one of the two students she had accused). Her high school turned against her, which included a graffiti campaign, and despite the positive DNA match her case was dropped by a grand jury (which was dropping about half the rape cases brought forward at the time, including ones with DNA matches and confessions from the perpetrators).

To borrow PO's statement, in a perfect world every rape allegation would be taken seriously and no one would pass judgement one way or another until the facts were known. But we don't live in that world. Acknowledging that, it's understandable why victims of sex crimes - whether they were children or adults at the time of said crime - feel it's not worth the hassle of coming forward, especially if their abuser was or is in a position of power.
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