She has tons of incentive. She wants attention and is getting attention of the highest sort. Do you know what an incentive is?
I do, and obviously her ploy now is to get attention. But lets take what she's doing at face value - she obviously *thinks* she was raped. Either she thinks she was raped, or she's the worst kind of doubling-down long-con shitlord alive. I mean she has pulled this story from the start and been consistent, she just lacks any kind of proof. So obviously *she* thinks she was raped, regardless of what happened.
How does this play into the survey? Well the survey is asking women what they "think" happened. Its not asking for proof. It's asking them if they think they've been raped, forcibly and otherwise (as you note, you have a lot of questions there.) They then pulled out just the ones who said forcible, and thats great. But it doesn't examine the facts of the story, just their feelings about it. Which is fine as a survey; but when you have such a huge disconnect between the percentage of women who were forcibly raped and the percentage of convictions, arrests, or reports that results in, something doesn't jive.
If there really are that many forcible rapes happening and women just aren't reporting it, thats fucked up. If there really are that many forcible rapes happening and women are reporting it but the police are ignoring them, thats fucked up. And so on and so forth.
But I think the big disconnect is between most women's idea of what forcible rape is, and what the law's idea of forcible rape is. So when they go to report it and are told that isn't rape, go home, or they say they can't get a conviction on that, go home, they think the law is biased against them or not protecting them. So that snowballs into "why report at all" and real rapes probably go unreported too. Which is a shame, because rapists are scumbag motherfuckers.
The real task should be 1> obviously prosecute all rapes to the fullest extent of the law 2> educate females as to how to protect themselves and not get into situations where they will face high pressure tactics combined with alcohol and (probably) drugs 3> educate males about how not to use high pressure tactics and be fucking gentlemen.
All three of those are important in my eyes, so Mist I don't think we really disagree and thats why we seem to be talking past each other. I think you just see the issue as "the law is inadequate because womens perceptions of rape and the laws perception of rape don't jive" and I think it's more like women's perception of rape is overbroad and unjustified. But neither of these positions are really wrong, we're just viewing it from the other angle. Know what I mean? Olive branch.
