Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”

Re:Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness” by mrkrab on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:10PM (#14692467)

If you two were alone, you had sex, and you go to a doctor later and there are no signs of violence, how can you prove you actually said "no"? Honest question.

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Re:Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness” by codezero on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:14PM (#14692494)

It's damn near impossible. Given the amount of pushback women get from the system, something should be done to help. Suffering systematic abuse then having a system that basically says, "You wanted it," must be extremely draining.

Our system is only slightly above ones that require a male relative to have witnessed the assault before accepting that it wasn't the woman who committed a crime.

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Re:Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness” by mejari on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:38AM (#14693579)

The likelihood of successfully prosecuting a crime does not affect the reality of whether or not that crime occurred.

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Re:Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness” by sokoloff on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:13PM (#14692482)

You probably can't. That affects whether or not you can reasonably pursue it, but doesn't change the objective fact of whether or not it was consensual.

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