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In reply to the discussion: Eight myths about Assange [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Asking permission is too difficult in these situations?
I don't think it's too much to expect.
No means no--hell, who doesn't know that, these days? Who, in this day and age of absolute rights with regard to an individual's personal integrity, "assumes" anything, particularly with someone one has known for mere hours or days? Assange is young enough to understand these things--he grew up in that sort of environment, where children were taught that no one had permission to touch their private places. It's not like he's a sixty year old guy who didn't have the benefit of all that classroom empowerment they started teaching the kids in the seventies and eighties. He KNEW better.
From your source:
When she talked with her friends afterwards she understood she was the victim of a crime. She went into Danderyd hospital and went from there to the Söder hospital. There she was examined and they even took samples with a so-called 'rape kit'.
If he's so blatantly innocent, and it's so obvious to you that he is, then all he has to do is go clear his name. Playing a "discredit the victims" game just isn't cutting it with me.
He's also playing "clueless about condoms" in this interview, so I'm inclined to disbelieve the guy, frankly:
http://rixstep.com/1/20110130,01.shtml
He needs to go answer the charges, and stop pretending that this is all about some grand plan to send him to Gitmo. It's not. It's about him being a sexual asshole at a MINIMUM, and perhaps much worse.