Law and Order?
I was referring to something a little more realistic, something along the lines of a news program like 60 Minutes or The Fifth Estate (Canadian).
As for calling from the Police station I did not dismiss that. The fact is I specifically mentioned that by writing, "From my understanding detectives take note of a person’s demeanor when questioning them. Perhaps they felt her “reaction” was not appropriate."
Look at the conversation.
Victim: "You do realize that … it's rape."
Suspect: "Yeah, I do."
Victim: "Like in a number of different ways, because I didn't want to do it and because I was intoxicated and because I was afraid."
Suspect: "Yes I do. I know."
It sounds like a casual conversation. Detached from emotion. The Police probably wanted to hear what she would say and how she would react. Maybe when she filed the complaint they noticed a lack of anger or fear?
The Police frequently use clues such as listening to a 911 call. Remember the guy who claimed the gas pedal was stuck on the car he was driving? The Police use those calls to interpret the person's level of anxiety, panic, anger, fear, etc.
The point is the transcript of the call sounds like it lacks emotion and that probably had a lot to do with the detectives dismissing the case.
As I said before I'm not an expert, however, my understanding is rape is a traumatic event and that conversation does not sound like that of a traumatized person. Does it to you?
Firstly, you state that it "does not sound like that of a traumatized person..." however, it doesn't sound like anything because this is a written transcript.
You don't know what she "sounded" like. Emotion and tone are notoriously difficult to discern through the written word. We all know this from our experiences with email misunderstandings, and indeed, even misunderstandings which routinely occur on boards like this one. What we know about this conversation was that the police asked her to call him and get him to admit to the rape. And he did.
Far more important is your assumption that the police were testing the victim.
“The Police probably wanted to hear what she would say and how she would react.”
You have no reason to believe this to be the case. You are projecting your own knee-jerk skeptism of women’s experiences onto the police, and you don’t know what you’re talking about. My own personal experience with detectives is that they believe the woman. They believe the woman because 99 out of a 100 times she’s telling the truth, and they know it. I had a he-said she-said with a old perv (no offense) about five years ago. A man who used to walk his dog right under my bedroom window all of the time, and then one day he stopped me along the walk way and told me he wanted to pay me money to see me with my clothes off. I called the police and a detective came out and he went to the man’s door and the man told him I was making it up. I was standing right outside his fence and could hear it. I had told the detective I didn’t want to press charges (I felt terrible for the perv’s poor wife and was loathe to further humiliate her), but I wanted him to stay away from me. The detective told him to shut the fuck up, just like that. He said, she’s not making it up and if she wanted me to, I’d arrest you right now. Now shut up and stay the f away from her, from her windows, and keep your dog away from her too. And that was not my first, but rather, my second experience with detectives and this category of offense. During both occasions they knew who the problem was.
Cops may be a lot of things, but they deal with sex assault victims, rape apologists like you (and you are one and you have hit every trope of a class A rape apologist in your smarmy answers), and scummy offenders all of the time. They know who to believe.
They wanted a confession and they got one.
Lastly, and this is very important, you are painting victims of sex crimes with a brush broadened by dramatic reenactments. Women react to sex crimes very differently. Much like men react to a violent crimes committed against their persons differently. Women and men. Both human. All individuals.
There is no script.
In the blogosphere, there are many sites which deal with women’s issues, including of course, sex assault. On some of these sites, they have something called trigger warnings. Some rape victims prefer to be warned if a particular story they are linking to includes descriptions of a sex assault.
However, some sites, many sites, do not use trigger warnings, and these sites are preferred by many victims of sex assault because they feel that they are being infantilized at the trigger sites. Many women who have been sexually assaulted do not like and take great offense at being treated like broken dolls.
They don’t have to perform for you like a monkey. Cry, and shake, and cringe, to gain your sympathy so that maybe you’ll choose to “believe” them. Play the little victim for me sweetie, and if I buy it, I’ll be on your side. No one needs you on their side, this is why we have victim and women’s advocates in this country.
No other victim of violent crime needs to behave in such a manner for you and society to judge. And neither do women.
You apple, are a particularly nasty kind of sexist, because you pretend to put women on a pedestal. You want them to have freedom. Freedom to “show their beauty”. But in fact I know of no man on this board who objectifies women more than you do, and can probably only name two who objectify them as much as you.
Women are not more than human. Women are not less than human. And either position reeks. And so do you.