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"They beat us and beat us, and then they started to rape.
Then they started to rape women from the dormitories [of the rescue centre]." Masika was 15 when she was first raped by a schoolteacher.
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Then he comes in and basically starts to rape her (except, in his mind, she wants it or something like that woman in Straw Dogs).
Indeed, even when Shoshana B Roberts, the actress at the centre of the viral video, started to receive rape threats online, some commenters on social media still seemed more comfortable discussing whether she should just avoid looking at the internet rather than confronting the blatant misogyny she was experiencing.
"The soldiers came and they started to shoot and rape our women.
Hostler worries that Rolling Stone's reporting errors will reinforce the tendency to doubt rape survivors, and that victims will be afraid to come forward as they had been for years before the public started to really discuss campus rape and take it seriously.
When she first started to work with rape victims in 1998, she found that perpetrators would pay for their crime by handing over a goat or a bag of maize to the girl's parents.
"When the rapes started to happen, I denounced it everywhere," she says.
But it could also be that public opinion is finally starting to recognise rape as the most appalling of crimes which deserves to be met with nothing but disgust and contempt for the rapist, rather than a new contract and football shirt.
I'd heard from Karen that Steve already felt a degree of remorse, but it was only by me telling him exactly what happened to me during and after the rape that it really started to hit home.
A parallel with rape imposes itself here: what if a film were to show a brutal rape in the same neutral way, claiming that one should avoid cheap moralism and start to think about rape in all its complexity?
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