Republican views on sexual assault

[GB_RN]

16. I've Heard Some Of These Before...

Some of these were new. All of them make me wanna 🤢🤮. Disgusting pigs. Bad enough that any man could think like that. It's even worse that the women would say shit like that.

There were some ignorant statements there, like Todd Akin's. The statement about the "rape kit" was pretty fucking ignorant, and I hope that twit was fact checked immediately. "Cleaning out" is NOT what a rape kit is for, nor what any part of the procedure does. For those who don't know, a "rape kit" is a package of items that medical providers use to collect the physical evidence of sexual assault. That includes DNA preservation, document wounds*, etc. The examination is invasive and after already having been traumatized by a rape, the woman (or man - yes, men do get raped, too) is humiliated again with this exam. It takes specially trained personnel, nurses, physicians and/or PAs to do a rape kit and work with a rape victim, and is not a task I'd want.

*For example, in male-on-female sexual assault, tissue abrasion is different in consensual vs non-consensual sex. This abrasion occurs in different locations, thus proving forcible penetration.