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Show Page Fourteen I The Daily Utah Chronicle. Openings more for U than ever before... myrna baqiey 8 Women ask for rape? get used to. Women ask for this brutal attack, as one judge indicated when he said, "whether women like it or not, they are sex objec ts," "Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of ihe jury, as I reveal to you the life story of the plaintiff, it will be made absolutely clear to sou, that Mr. Doe, the defendant, is not guiliy of rajie. In fact, you will see that he is the real ictim; a helpless pawn in the hands of a tleer, teasing woman. "Ms. Smith, a divorcee, has accused Mr. Doe of the horrendous and crime of rape! Mr. Doe, a prominent businessman, church leader and family man, was in the process of being a concerned and helpful fellow human to Ms. Smith in her time of apparent distress. Af ter pretending to hae car trouble, Ms. Smith persuaded Mr. Doe to give her a ride home after work. Thereupon she lured him into her apartment with offers of refreshment, all the w hile feigning an attitude of helpless gratitude. "Now sour honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Mr. Doe is not a drinking man, but he is a gentleman and kindly accepted Ms. Smith's offer of refreshment, a concoction of fruit juices and alcoholic beverages, carefully mixed to disguise the taste of spirits..." Of course, the story has a happy ending. The lady is publicly embarrassed beyond rejair. and the fine, upstanding c itit n and family man. who had. in fact, taken 4ft van of the situation and raped the lady, was exonerated as a v ic tim of another m lu . it maic w iiov i nula ltn Iv . advances had been itjuie-1- . Sound familiar: It Miouid as thissceneno best clrsc iilx s what a man can exxct at the hands of justice. Then was a time in tlu' recent iasi when a glimmer of horie shown on the horion the hope that a raped woman would truly get a fair and honest hearing if she believed herself to be the ictim of or attempted rape. were emerging, during the There raj, and should "step teasing." This comment from Judge Archie E. Simonson. Madison, Wis., was his justification for reversing a previous conviction of three high school boss who had raped a school building during school hours. a "normal-reactionSimonson called this gang-rap- e to the sexual climate existing in these schools days and to the provocative clothing the raped girl was wearing. The victim was wearing blue jeans and a blouse, with a turtleneck sweater under the blouse. 15ear-oldgirlint- life-scaiTi- J J , We've got more to offer than a great location... 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The WASPish backlash of conservative political and social thought rapidly sweeping this country has spawned a frightening consequence most notably, the laxity of judicial solutions to the continuing increase in rape and rafx d is constantly, questioned through rape, breeding an attitude that says.simeall men are basically good, kind, generous and loving (not to mention mentally and physically healthy) one could not participate in rape unless provoked or persuaded. In July, there were 16 reported rapes in this immediate vic inity (SIX). These were rejxnted to the Rajx- Crisis Center, not to the )olice. Act ending to a spokesman of the center, the women who report rape are not interested in catching the man who raped them as much as they are interested in medical or psychological solutions to the liberation and civil right New, complete 35mm Camera Selections including Olympus, Canon. 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