Your advice that this person seek a rape crisis center is certainly sound, as is your assertion that most police doubt a rape survivor's story. However, you have seem to have some unsound bias which I feel leaves out an important point or two.
The tendency to blame the victim in any situation is one shared by both women and men, and is well-documented. It's also well-documented that a 'weaker' victim is more likely to be subject to such bias.
This doesn't just apply to rape - it applies to nearly every situation with a victim. Such bias is much more prevalent in situations where: * the percentage of the populous that is victimised is small, * it is more easy to blame the victim than to place blame accurately and there are no controls in place to mitigate this, * or where the situation itself is relatively unusual.
In this case, if there's nothing to force this issue to the forefront, it will continue to be easy for people to blame the victim instead of addressing the problem with rational thought. Such has always been the case for rape victims, and the fact that this particular situation is even less common than rape in general will make the fight to have it recognized for the brutal crime it is even more difficult.
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Your advice that this person seek a rape crisis center is certainly sound, as is your assertion that most police doubt a rape survivor's story. However, you have seem to have some unsound bias which I feel leaves out an important point or two.
The tendency to blame the victim in any situation is one shared by both women and men, and is well-documented. It's also well-documented that a 'weaker' victim is more likely to be subject to such bias.
This doesn't just apply to rape - it applies to nearly every situation with a victim. Such bias is much more prevalent in situations where:
* the percentage of the populous that is victimised is small,
* it is more easy to blame the victim than to place blame accurately and there are no controls in place to mitigate this,
* or where the situation itself is relatively unusual.
In this case, if there's nothing to force this issue to the forefront, it will continue to be easy for people to blame the victim instead of addressing the problem with rational thought. Such has always been the case for rape victims, and the fact that this particular situation is even less common than rape in general will make the fight to have it recognized for the brutal crime it is even more difficult.