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March 24, 2004
CHILL EFFECT
Way to go, Kobe, you rapist with piece of garbage lawyers. Thanks to you, we probably set rape victims back about 15 years today. Experts believe that other women who are vicitms of rape will now will be far more reluctant to press charges against their assailant, because of the precedent you set today of forcing rape victims to testify about their sexual history.
"I'm frightened about this decision, only for the fact that families will not support victims and survivors to go report because they can now say, 'Look what happened to so-and-so,'" said Jeri Elster of Los Angeles, who was raped in 1992 and has lobbied for changes in the law. "It feels like a huge setback for survivors and victims to come."
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't care if the girl had a habit of taking on three guys at once on her days off, or if she was with some other guy earlier that night. If a woman says no, that means no -- whether she's the virgin or the whore. Her sexual history has nothing to do with what took place in that hotel room. And because of the Bryant defense, thousands of women who will be raped in the next few years, who might have been inclined to courageously fight back and report what was done to her, will no longer be as willing to come forward or feel as safe if they do.
Nice legacy, asshole.
