April 10th, 2010
Test Case: You're Not a Rape Victim Unless Police Say So. This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped.
Nice authorities you have there. By this bastard's definition, people who are raped while they are unconscious are not raped at all! Because they should be able to tell in details what happened!
Then, he called the Sexual Assault Unit, where he was patched into Spriggs. Minor told Spriggs he had a victim complaining of sexual assault and needed a rape kit authorized. Though D.C. police policy requires detectives to report to the scene to interview the victim in person, Spriggs decided to do this one by phone. Spriggs told Minor to put Hannah on the line. Spriggs, sitting in the SAU office, determined that Hannah hadn’t been the victim of a crime. “She told me that she was at a party. And she remembered kissing a guy,” Spriggs testified. “I repeated back to her what she said to me. And there was a pause,” he said. Back on the phone with Minor, “I said, this young lady, she’s not reporting anything, she’s not reporting a crime to me. I’m not bringing a sex kit up here.” Spriggs then testified as to why he didn’t press Hannah to explain why she needed a kit: “I’m not going to feed you any information to give you an opportunity to embellish you story,” Spriggs testified. “If you are reporting something to me, then you should be able to tell me what that is. And she did not report any crime to me.”
Nice authorities you have there. By this bastard's definition, people who are raped while they are unconscious are not raped at all! Because they should be able to tell in details what happened!
( Reborn 284 spoilers or Oh fandom and manga, you fail so much it's not even funny )
ETA: Also, some day, someone, not me, has to write something about young girls and what they get from shonen manga, which is much more mainstream and, most of the time, more popular than shoujo manga. KHR is a good example of this, I have seen Japanese fans said that girls make 80% of KHR readers. And see, young girls may go for bishonen in these kind of manga, but the message they always get is this: cis men are the only valid and idolized identities; only relationship between men are worthy; women are sexual objects and not much more; only men can be powerful and admired, etc. Young boys? Get exactly the same thing. And this is just because people love the, "but this is a shonen manga!!" argument. As if there is no such a thing as sexism in this industry.
ETA: Also, some day, someone, not me, has to write something about young girls and what they get from shonen manga, which is much more mainstream and, most of the time, more popular than shoujo manga. KHR is a good example of this, I have seen Japanese fans said that girls make 80% of KHR readers. And see, young girls may go for bishonen in these kind of manga, but the message they always get is this: cis men are the only valid and idolized identities; only relationship between men are worthy; women are sexual objects and not much more; only men can be powerful and admired, etc. Young boys? Get exactly the same thing. And this is just because people love the, "but this is a shonen manga!!" argument. As if there is no such a thing as sexism in this industry.