Monday, October 20, 2003
(8:50 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Kobe Bryant is probably guilty
I don't know the facts of the case, aside from the fact that Fox News repeatedly mentioned "vaginal tearing" on the night the story broke (but, I mean, it could have just been rough sex, vaginal tearing doesn't necessarily mean rape, vaginal tearing, vaginal tearing...). Still, precisely because there is such a high burden of proof when a very young girl claims to have been raped by a millionaire world-famous basketball star, I think that we should give her the benefit of the doubt. Even in This Day and Age, alleged rape victims have their entire sexual history exposed when the alleged rapist's lawyers settle on the ol' It's Impossible To Rape A Slut Defense. If a woman is willing to go through that kind of indignity, shouldn't we assume that she has actually been raped?
The only other option is that she's such a slut that she's actually using the inevitable exposure involved in a rape trial as free advertising for her insatiable sexual urges. Along the same lines, we could say that Arnold probably ran for governor of California at least partly in order to give women the "heads up" that he enjoys a good grope now and then. Now, whenever he meets a woman, he will immediately know where he stands -- she will either say, "Please refrain from groping me" or "I love Arnold -- and you know what? He can grope me anytime." It's not quite the same as grabbing a tit or two regardless of the woman's feelings, but what can he say? It was only in the last few months that he learned that women had these so-called "feelings." He's grown a lot, just by running for governor, so imagine what he'll learn when he settles in to do the hard work of governing.
We've heard some "complaints" from "pundits" who think that the historic "LA Times story" about the groping issue relied too much on anonymous sources. I honestly think that maintaining the anonymity of the women involved was the only moral thing for the reporters to do. The last thing we need is to ruin these poor ladies' dating lives by publicly exposing the fact that they're frigid bitches who can't take a little involuntary intimate contact from a total stranger in stride. If you didn't want to be groped, why did you get a job at a restaurant? Why do you work out? Why do you wear clothing that you find comfortable? Why do you check the "female" box on forms?
I'm having trouble coming to any conclusions, to be honest. All I'm saying is that Kobe Bryant is probably guilty and that he should probably go to jail for what he did, so that all the conservatives can complain about how all these liberals are all about "equal rights" until we start talking about a millionaire world-famous married basketball star having "rough sex" with a very young woman -- where's their equal rights now? Where's their "tolerance" now?
