1936 - 1938: William Randolph Hearst's newspaper empire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust create terror of the killer weed from Mexico.
Through his relentless misinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word marijuana into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about marijuana-crazed negroes raping white women and playing voodoo-satanic jazz music.
Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks -- according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers -- dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame!
In September, a Hofstra University freshman who had accused a group of men of gang-raping her recanted her statement. The 18-year-old student, who had told police that the men had lured her into a dorm bathroom, tied her up with rope, and raped her, admitted to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office that the “incident” was, in fact, consensual. A video taken on one of the men’s cell phones revealed that there was, in fact, no rope.WTF? And the article goes on to say that the woman shouldn't be called a whore for falsely accusing men of rape. She's right. She should be called a criminal.
After being released from jail, where they had been held for nearly 24 hours, the four men who were cleared of the rape charges posed in a series of celebratory photographs, smiling, raising their hands in the air, and offering thumbs-up signs to the press. Overnight, the men turned from accused rapists to…four guys who had had consensual sex with a woman together.
Marihuana, a weird "jazz weed" frequently used by Mexican drug addicts is the source of much crime in the southwest...posted by XMLicious at 2:24 PM on March 18, 2010 [5 favorites]
... a bit of marihuana placed in a drink of brandy causes the optimistic indulger to fancy that he witnesses jelly-like pulsations and Oriental wiggles in every object in his view. Street cars shake like a wicked shimmy for the marihuana smoker.
If a little marihuana is sprinkled on a tortilla as it bakes, the lowly delicacy vibrates and, it is said, sends forth weird tunes not unlike those peeping over the walls of a sultan's harem rendezvous.
burnmp3s: For males, I think it's more of a perspective thing. Since the majority of men don't commit or become victims of sexual assault, the only way that rape can directly affect them personally is through a false accusation.Quoted for truth.
Forcible rape, as defined in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.Wait, rape is now just the carnal knowledge of a female? Men can't be raped? That sounds... not correct and more than a little sexually prejudiced. After all, from Stop Prison Rape/Just Detention:
In a 2007 survey of prisoners across the country, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) found that 4.5 percent (or 60,500) of the more than 1.3 million inmates held in federal and state prisons had been sexually abused in the previous year alone. A BJS survey in county jails was just as troubling; nearly 25,000 jail detainees reported having been sexually abused in the past six months.If those figures are accurate, then a pretty significant percentage of men are being raped in situations that are far more controlled and controllable. Apparently rape isn't really your business after all, unless you've quietly being staging a massive letter writing campaign to end prison rape as horrific, unjust, and preventable. If that is the case, I salute you- but I'd hazard not nearly as likely...
sallybrown: Prison rape is a horrible problem, and I personally think it's morally reprehensible that people joke about it as easily as they do. But bringing it up in the way you did made it seem like a dismissal of the rape of women that this FPP is about.Thanks for your comments. My point is more of a "as a trying-to-be-decent human being, I can only do so much and take on so much of a burden of responsibility. The minimum- and possibly the maximum- amount I can truly control is myself.
At no point does the author state that the Hofstra University freshman should not be charged for her false accusation, or that she was justified in her actions. Pointing out that men who engage in consensual group sex are treated differently from women who do is not the same as defending a false accusation of rape. -- Astro ZombieThe hell she doesn't. She defends the accuser, and then actually criticized the victims, in fact basically accusing them of rape anyway:
When four men are having sex in public with one drunk woman they’ve never met before, how likely is it that the woman provided full, enthusiastic, and un-coerced consent to each sex act? Once the victim had lied about the extent of the coercion in that dorm bathroom, media gawkers rejoiced in recasting her as a whore and her sex partners as heroes.(note still calling the false accuser a 'victim')
Discarded in the middle was a sadder possibility: that a woman who felt she had been violated didn’t think anyone would believe her if she wasn’t tied down by a rope.Read the article. It's disgusting. The exact kind of "victim blaming" and "excusing" she complains about in actual rape cases.
Don't want to come off a sexist? Don't turn a thread about rape into a moratorium on false accusations. -- Astro ZombieOne quarter of the article was spent defending a false accuser, and attacking her victims.posted by delmoi at 5:36 PM on March 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
Do you know something about the story that I don't? She was 18 and drunk -- that actually fits the Sexual Assault Policy of Hofstra UniversityWhat are you talking about? I don't see anything on the link that suggests having sex with someone "18 and drunk" is sexual assult. Can you be a little more specific? She wasn't "incapacitated" and being 18 doesn't render you incapable of consent either.
She recanted and said it was consensual, but it's a fair question to ask how much consent there even can be when a group of men have sex with a drunk 18-year-oldWhy would there be any difference between one guy and four guys?
And, no, the author didn't spent a quarter of her article defending false accusers and attacking the victims. A few sentences in a two page article doesn't constitute a vigorous attack or defenseWell, a quarter of the article was about a false accusation of rape, with the overall section slanted against the victims and towards the false accuser. Therefore, false accusations of rape are a fairly obvious topic of conversation in this thread.
Why did you ask whether AZ has had sex with drunk people?Because If its true that it's reasonable to wonder about consent if the (female) partner is drunk and AZ has had sex with drunk women Then it's reasonable to wonder if AZ is a rapist, by his own standards.
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