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...YORK CITY in 1971 there were 18 convictions for rape. Perhaps as many as 10,000 New York women were sexually abused that year in the most violent, degrading manner conceivable, and yet only 18 men could be found guilty. How could this happen? Superficially the blame lies with legal statutes (recently changed) which demanded "conclusive" corroborating evidence. But the true answer--fantastically complex, multi-faceted--can be found in Susan Brownmiller's portentous examination of rape, Against Our Will...
Brownmiller, with extensive documentation and enviable insight, studies rape from every possible standpoint--historical, psychological, anthropological, sociological...She shatters every myth surrounding rape--myths that have prevailed since the beginning of time, myths that have rendered us incapable of viewing rape in its proper political perspective...
...opens with a detailed presentation and analysis of the role of rape in history. "Only when all accounts of rape are collected and correlated does the true underside of women's history emerge," she writes. In almost every society, women have been regarded as male-owned chattel. Because they have been thus dehumanized their violation has historically been seen, not as an attack on a person, but rather, as the defilement of another man's goods. Brownmiller writes...
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I am part of a conspiracy, involving half the population of the earth (many of whom I hardly know), to use rape as a "conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear...
What it comes down to is a woman who seduces a man and then cries rape to prove her contention that all men are animals, beasts, sexual perverts, etc. As to whether a victim of rape "asked for it," my conclusion is that some don't but some...