Reply #67: Definitely, it is rape. But I don't see rape as a crime that justifies

[Firebrand13]

a life sentence, the death penalty or "castration" (as some angry posters above recommended).

There are many young minority men falsely accused of rape by white women - her lily white word against their brown/black asses. Many of those men stay in jail forever. Kobe was lucky enough to be rich/famous and somehow escaped the lynch mob (the girl was clearly a groupie).

It is simply too easy for some innocent man (of whatever race) to be locked up forever/executed. When does he get a chance to say "no" ? Where is his justice ?

And I'll say this: patriarchal views are the only reason rape is dealt with the same way murder is -- because it was viewed as a crime of one man (the rapist) against another (the husband of the raped woman).

IMO, rape is more of an assault based crime (a brutal assault and a felony deserving of several years in jail) but not on the level of murder requiring a life sentence or the death penalty. Rape is only somehow viewed differently from assault because it involves SEX. There is nothing dirty or special about sex. Therefore, IMO, what remains is a brutal assault.