WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London in connection with Swedish rape allegations, and guess who’s to blame? Feminists, of course!
An attractive blonde, Sarah was already a well-known ‘radical feminist’. In her 30s, she had travelled the world following various fashionable causes.
While a research assistant at a local university she had not only been the protegee of a militant feminist academic, but held the post of ‘campus sexual equity officer’. Fighting male discrimination in all forms, including sexual harassment, was her forte.
So, like, the kind of person who makes up rape claims, basically. Also, the kind of person who makes up criminal allegations when someone she sleeps with has sex with someone else:
How must Sarah have felt to discover that the man she’d taken to her bed three days before had already taken up with another woman? Furious? Jealous? Out for revenge? Perhaps she merely felt aggrieved for a fellow woman in distress.
Add into the mix another meddling lady — “the female interviewing officer, presumably because of allegations of a sabotaged condom in one case and a refusal to wear one in the second, concluded that both women were victims” — and what you have is a case where “unlike the bell in [Swedish city] Enkoping, the allegations simply don’t ring true.”
It’s true that the case against Assange isn’t cut-and-dried — piecing it together is what the legal process is for. Over at Feministe, Jill notes that the real issue here isn’t “What Assange Did or Whether Assange Is A Rapist” (we really don’t know unless/until the case actually goes to court), but “the primary media narrative about this case, which is that women lie and exaggerate about rape, and will call even the littlest thing — a broken condom! — rape if they’re permitted to under a too-liberal feminist legal system.” I actually prefer the “honeytrap” (or in Swedish, “sexfalla”) narrative, in which the women involved were American spies plotting to bring Assange down with their vaginas. That’s as speculative as anything else, but at least it’s new. The they’re-just-angry-feminists argument is painfully old and tired, and, as Jill points out, supports an all-or-nothing view of sexual consent that just plain doesn’t describe most people’s sexual experience.
While the press complains about feminazi bonerkillers, WikiLeaks’s boner remains spectacularly unkilled. The organization tweets that it will release more cables tonight. And according to CNN, it’s also posted an encrypted file Assange’s lawyer calls a “thermonuclear device.” Over 100,000 people have downloaded it, and they’ll supposedly receive the key to decrypt should “anything happen” to the site or Assange. And the Mail is worried about feminists?
WikiLeaks Boss Assange Arrives At UK Court [Sky News]
The Wikileaks Sex Files: How Two One-Night Stands Sparked A Worldwide Hunt For Julian Assange [Daily Mail]
Some Thoughts On “Sex By Surprise” [Feministe]
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Is Accused of Rape (Updated) [Gizmodo]
Assange Arrested In London On Swedish Warrant [CNN]
Earlier: What You Need To Know About The Wikileaks Rape Scandal
