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"Aikins' case is a chilling example of what can happen to someone who challenges the status quo, particularly in small-town Ontario. "
Here's strike one. Challenging the status quo is equal to "progresiveness". Find and dandy, if they have such a good arguement why are they so secretive and coniving?
""I went to strict Catholic schools and wanted to be a doctor, but somehow ended up doing a nursing program and working with the developmentally challenged in an institution," Aikins told me. "
Here Landsberg slams the patriarchy, the church and the "class ceiling" all in one.
"Aikins was in hospital for a week, concussed, scraped, bruised and torn. The police investigated it as a case of simple assault and, says Aikin, were so ham-fisted and accusatory ("Was it your boyfriend?") that she refused to even tell them about the rape. They knew about it from the medical evidence, however. And, in keeping with Barrie police practices in rape cases at that time, they subjected Aikins to a humiliating lie detector test. (One question: "Do you often fantasize about being raped?") Even her husband, she says, felt that "since nothing bad happens in Barrie, it must somehow have been my fault." "
You know I used to be against this type of questioning as well. But I now realize that these cops had probably seen it all or been there and done that. Their attitudes weren't reactionary, they were built by years of experience.
"The rape was the worst thing that had happened to Aikins in her sheltered, middle-class existence, and it was also the beginning of a completely new life. Her marriage fraying under the pressure of the trauma, "
Hammers at the middle class and the institution of marriage. Two biggies in the communist revolution.
"One year later, she had opened a rape crisis line in her basement and began to find other women like herself in the community. She had 50 phone calls that first year. "
Ya right. How many of thoe calls were from the same person? How many were actually regarding rape or sexual assault?
""The work separated me from my husband and family, and my feminist principles and identity separated me from my church," she recalls. "
Commies love to destroy the church.
"Aikins was fearless in challenging the local police and their conservative attitude toward rape victims."
She means conservatives in general.
" In fact, local media delighted in posing her and the police chief as antagonists in debates about sexual violence."
Duh! Old trick. Who cares?
" She soon became an expert witness on rape trauma, testifying in 116 trials (115 defendants were found guilty)."
How many were later aquited on appeal?
" taught courses at the Ontario Police College, published well-argued newspaper pieces and made training videos for police. "
You mean propaganda tools, don't you?
"The twist in this story is almost Shakespearean. At the height of her achievement, Aikins' centre won the jackpot that would lead to its downfall. In 1991, the recently elected New Democratic Party government boosted the centre's funding from $80,000 a year to nearly $400,000. "
And I suppose that the new democratic party wanted nothing in return. Ya right!
"In exchange, the centre was expected to create five satellite offices to cover all of Simcoe County, with long-term counselling and court support services in French and English. Eleven new staff were hastily hired. "
Counsiling or psychopoliticizing?
"That was in 1993, when the so-called "rape shield" law had been struck down, and accused rapists were able to demand, get and paw through every scrap of a victim's personal papers, including diaries, medical records, letters and notes from post-rape therapy sessions. It was a scandalous breach of crime victims' privacy rights."
Rape sheild laws are all about destroying individual rights to challenge the burden of the state. The state has no right to act as big brother and work on someone's word alone. The justice system is working blindly with a prefixed outcome of dissallowing rights of the accused to challenge the states move.
"When you work outside the mainstream of society, dealing day in and day out with the grief and trauma of violence while right-wing media bray their contempt at you, your inner doubts are often triggered — especially if you're a rape survivor. Aikins still blames herself for not paying enough attention to paperwork. "
What I don't understand is why the attack on the "right"? Well , maybe if they gave her $400 000 dollars all feminists would be voting conservative right now.
Anyways as the other article points out. It nails it. These places are indoctrination camps to psychopoliticize women. Women who are in fragile and dependant stats. Women also who are motivated to seek the upperhand in relationship tiffs.
Smooth move, just demonize all men with one stroke and presto. Politics for the ignorant.
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