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In reply to the discussion: Do sexual assault victims have an obligation to resist/protest? [View all]DutchLiberal
(5,744 posts)There was a bit of news this week about the memoirs of a teen intern at the White House who had an affair with Kennedy. In the book, she describes how she first met JFK when she was 19 years old, he took her on a tour through the White House, which ended in Jackie's bedroom. There he started to feel her up, upon which she unbuttoned her shirt and then they did it.
This is key: the woman doesn't describe the act as rape. She doesn't write Kennedy forced her or threatened her. She doesn't write she objected or resisted. Just that she had sex with him and that it was her first time.
Now the OP said that, to believe that story "is believing JFK was essentially a rapist". Upon which I called bullshit, using the arguments the OP repeats literally.
However, and the OP knows this very well, I was talking about a specific case, concerning adults. The OP choose, willingly, to include a case of pedosexuality/incest. You know, to add to the drama.
There has been a disturbing number of "all women are powerless victims of all men" threads on DU the last month. I think this one falls into the same category.