Toady in Criminal Law, we had a guess speaker who used to work at the FBI discussing serial killing. The class was presented to us – as last year for the first time in 3 or 4 years some women had a problem, so there’s a warning and if you want to leave it won’t be held against you.
Now he is speaking – in talking about rape he described on of the type of rapists as a “gentleman” rapist who only does what a woman “allow” him to do. It just makes you wonder if the people prosecuting the crimes think of rapists as gentlemen and that they are allowed
One of the things I find very relevant of that kind of language is that your interpretation influences the questions you ask, and the questions you ask influence the answers you get. With sexism, homophobia, and other assumptions influencing the way you think about something, makes me wonder if that isn’t part of the reason Ted Bundy went so long before being caught.
Here’s another interesting thing – he keeps commenting about how a serial killer has “sex” with the victim. The use of the word sex implies “consent” that is by no means what happened. It is rape and that would be the appropriate word, not sex.
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