Ever since Adam told Eve that he had mad skills as a snake charmer, men have been lying to women to get into their pants.
“Baby, I can rock your world.”
Earlier this week, I listened in horror to a Democracy Now podcast as the correspondent spoke of a trial that had just concluded in an Israeli court. A Palestinian man stood accused of lying to a woman.
The charge was rape by deception.
In 2008, a Palestinian man, Sabbar Kashur, met an Israeli woman and led her to believe that he was an Israeli bachelor. They had consensual relations that evening. Later, she learned that he had lied about both being single and being Israeli, so she filed a complaint.
Apparently, being coaxed into bed under false pretense is a very serious crime in Israel – especially if the accused is a Palestinian.
On Monday, he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail.
Those in agreement with the verdict don’t see Kashur’s offense as an indiscretion, rather they view his actions as an unambiguous example of a crime. One such person is Merav Mor, a director of resource development at the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel. During an interview on Al Jezeera, she summed it up this way:
“If a woman or a man feels that they were given wrong information, they were raped.”
I don’t buy that.
She was pissed off. I get it. No one wants to be lied to. What I don’t get is how a good idea – protecting women from abuse – can be contorted into this assault on sensibility. Were this to become the prevailing sentiment here in the America, our jails would be “standing room only” with men and women who have embellished, red lined, or completely fabricated their social resumes.
It is possible that this charge and verdict were not based on the respective nationalities of the complainant and defendant, as alleged by Ms. Mor, yet the overly expansive definition of rape that was used in this case strains credulity.
Where does it end?
He claims to be an executive, but he’s really a file clerk.
String ‘em up, it’ll teach him a lesson.
She’s uses Botox or wears a girdle.
String her up, it’ll teach her a lesson.
He tells her that he is the “best”.
Well, we can’t string him up for making that claim because, if we did, men would soon be extinct.
I’m not making light of real abuse. Victims ought to be protected. But this verdict is a clear overreach in that Kashur is now a sex offender, and will forever be viewed no differently than a child molester in the eyes of the law.
That can’t be right.
Some may think me misogynistic for taking this view, but followed to its logical conclusion, rapping would be outlawed and little white lies would morph into felonies.
So Players, beware.
When you step up to the pretty woman sitting at the bar, you may be doing so at your own risk.
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What do you think of this verdict?
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