How UCSB Re-Rapes Victims

Suppose for a moment that you were the victim of a rape.  Most women intuitively understand how dreadful this experience is.  Moreover, according to local women's groups, one in four UCSB coeds will have experienced a sexual assault during her four years at UCSB – these victims also have a good understanding of the impact of sexual assault.    

For our male readers it may be difficult to internalize the feelings associated with a rape.  May we suggest a mental exercise to help you (our male readers) understand what it feels like to be raped.  Imagine the following scenario: 

A guy who is much larger than you and much stronger than you attacks you without warning.  After beating and humiliating you, he holds you down and forces you to perform oral sex on him. All the while he threatens to kill you and continues to hurt you.  Then, he commits sodomy on you until your anus tears and you are bleeding profusely.  Finally, he slaps you around, chokes you, and tells you that if you ever tell anyone he will hurt you again. He also explains that he will tell everyone that you were the one who wanted to have sex with him and that you are a promiscuous fag.  He will tell everyone that you sexually assaulted him and he was just defending himself.  

Let's suppose after all that trauma you still have enough pluck to go to the authorities and tell them what happened.  You are then expected to tell the entire story in enormous detail.  Your body will be examined, tested and photographed.  You are told that these test and photos will be used in court in the event that the perpetrator is ever brought to justice.  At least the jury, court personnel and dozens of other people associated with the event will look at the photos and evidence.  You will also be told that it is possible that your name will be made public and that you will have to appear in court and be subjected to cross-examination – generally by some really sleazy pettifogger who will attack your character.  (The more they pay him, the more he will attempt to destroy you – nothing personal, just business as usual for this species).   

You will be asked questions about who else you had sex with in the recent past – when, how many times, and in what positions.  You will be asked to describe the type of sex you had and whether is was rough sex.   Your sex partner or partners may be contacted and forced to give DNA samples.  You will be asked if you initiated the sex with the rapist and whether you were you drinking or doing drugs? 

Then, you go home.  Your name gets leaked to the local papers, your friends and classmate all know about it.  Many of them immediately, without any actual information, defend your attacker.  They publicly support him.  They hold rallies and press conferences and raise money to defend him.  They say that you must have started the sex.  The say that unlike you, he is a great guy and would never do something like that.  With what only can be described as the religious fervor of a fundamentalist, they "know" he didn't do it.   Many of your friends and classmate shun you.  

Well, how does it feel?  Now you men have some understanding of the fear and trauma experienced by a female rape victim at UCSB.  A trauma that is continuing to happen to women at UCSB.  

But wait, it gets even worse!  The rapist gets out on bail before you are finished with the police interviews.  His friends (your fellow students) attack you publicly and support him with ferocious tenacity.  He has a class in the same area and time as one of your classes.    UCSB knows this and they take action.  Here is the action they take: They tell you that "The guy who allegedly 'raped' you has a class very near you at about the same time.  We suggest that you change your schedule (come to class about 15 minutes late and maybe you won't run into him)."  In other words, they do nothing!  They could take action against the rapist under existing UCSB rules, but they don't.  They could take action against the rapist's thug friends who attack you and "outed" you, but they don't.  

This is how UCSB is handling the rape allegations against Eric Frimpong  – the allegations that he sexually assaulted two fellow UCSB students (chances are that there are more but they are afraid to come forward). Other than helping Frimpong beat the rap with letters of support and letting him stay in school so they can report that he is a model student, UCSB has taken no action against Frimpong.  

Frimpong lawyers claim that he has the same rights to use the UCSB facilities as the victim – apparently, that is the way UCSB sees it too.   Of course, if he is convicted and sent to jail, UCSB won't ever have to take any action because the State of California will physically "enroll" Mr. Frimpong in one of the "other" state institutions for a few years.  Either way, UCSB won't act.  

No wonder there is so much unreported rape and sexual assault at UCSB – the crime itself is horrific, the lack of support from UCSB for victims may be worse.  Other than the annual feckless marches and social claptrap like "take back the night" parties, where is the outrage?  Where are the feminists?  Have they all been emasculated?  Where are the protests?  Who is protesting at Yang's office demanding that UCSB take action against UCSB student criminals?   I guess that UCSB's soccer program's image (and the school's image in general) is just too important to waste on a few hundred "bimbos" who get themselves raped every year at UCSB.