RE: Aziz Ansari Doesn't Pick Up On "Non-Verbal Cues" and Gets Treated Like A Rapist
January 16, 2018 at 5:18 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 5:14 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(January 16, 2018 at 5:10 pm)Shell B Wrote: Yeah, duh.
Turns out, she actually is saying it was assault. I misspoke on that.
Ah, well...I don't think she's gonna be able to make that one stick. I don;t know if that amounts to much, I don't think that she could make it stick even if it were, meaningfully, a sexual assault.
She might be able to, if it actually was. The problem is that it's very important to go to the police immediately after an assault. Without video, audio or text, that's the only way you're going to get any evidence. It's not that "rape didn't happen if she didn't report it," but it's that the presumption of innocence is a very important part of our legal system, and you can't prove someone guilty without evidence. If, as I am now, I was assaulted, I wouldn't hesitate to report it, but I've never reported anything in the past, so it's not like I don't sympathize with people who don't.