The lawyer for French writer Tristane Banon announced today that his client intends to file attempted rape charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Paris. “I will send the complaint to the public prosecutor’s office tomorrow,” lawyer David Koubbi told the French weekly L’Express, “and they will receive it on Wednesday.” The move comes only days after prosecutors in New York conceded that their case against Strauss-Kahn had been weakened by questions surrounding the credibility of a maid who has accused Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in May at the Sofitel Hotel in New York.
The accusations offer its own punchline:
The 32-year-old Banon has accused Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her eight years earlier in an empty Parisian apartment where she was conducting an interview with him for a book on the “biggest mistakes” of well-known public figures.
Perhaps Strauss-Kahn thought a "demonstration project" was necessary?
I dunno -- have you ever assumed that you were entitled to have sex with someone just because the idea occurred to you? It would be awfully difficult to be a functioning human being if you operated that way, don't you think?
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have you ever assumed that you were entitled to have sex with someone just because the idea occurred to you?
isnt that why men get married?
isnt that why men get married?
Well, yeah. Let me rephrase that.
Have you ever assumed that you were entitled to have sex with anyone who crossed your path just because the idea occurred to you?
I guess that is a different question.
Whether or not the guy's actions qualify as rape, I think it's safe to say he's a cad. Time to take away the trappings of power that make him think he's got the right to every pretty young thing that comes by.
Hm, not sure I would marry a man if he was doing it in order to entrap me into obligatory sexual acts. I say that as an engaged person, and a woman. Also I will cop to never doing anything that I wouldn't do as a married person (hate that meme, too). Honesty, yo.
I mean, I don't literally believe any of you think that women should be forced ("required" is the same thing, without the violence, right?) to put out against their wishes, so why perpetuate the idea of marriage as sexual entitlement? We're entitled to have sex with someone when they consent to sex, not because they are married to us.
Spiritual reasons aside (which are personal, and so I won't address them), marriage is about legal protection and status recognition. In this day and age, most people have sex when they want. They don't need marriage for that. And women love sex just as much as men. It's exhausting to me, that people continue to talk as if that's not true. Historically, women do not go "tom-catting" about, because they are more physically vulnerable to people who would do them harm, plus, they risk pregnancy/STDs. Also, social mores. Women simply have had more to lose; it's not that men "naturally" love sex more.
The way the DSK case has fallen apart is a travesty of justice and the media. Feminists have bitterly retorted that "apparently it's not possible to rape women who have ever lied," but I actually think that deep down, people don't believe that it's not possible to rape liars. I think that people think it's okay to rape women who are liars. I have been informed that this is a very cynical attitude, but at the same time, it seems as if I'm only ever proven wrong, in situations like this, about people about whom I thought the better, not the worse. :(
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