European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Jill Lawrence associated press b behind the debate Over whether to publicly identify rape victims is an age old stigma that persists despite two decades of attempts to erase it. A a a the new thinking is that  a. Crime of violence. Hostility and aggression just like any other crime. A the probe Cartas illustrated by the three ring Media circus Over the report of a rape at the Kennedy Palm each Fla compound is that rape in t quite like any other crime. V a a a. V a. Quot. Ii is a crime that evolves sex. But sex itself is not crime so the most Basic question of whether a crime v7. Occurred May be reduced to his word against hers. That. Puts unusual scrutiny on the victim s integrity and virtue it is also a very intimate crime. A rapist is trying to take something far More personal than Money in an act far More intrusive than stealing. A. .7.\of _ the victim is both assaulted and sexually violated. There s no other situation where those two experiences come together in such an unpleasantly meaningful Way Quot said psychologist David Silber a George Washington. University professor specializing in crime and  is a crime that in almost All cases pits men a. A against women a his Power against hers. But the woman who has been raped May not be praised As a robbery victim would be for giving in to an attacker who is threatening her life. Instead she. May be reproached Lor not resisting forced to defend her. Conduct. /-7� a a r7quot you can come into work and say somebody broke into my apartment last night and stole my to Quot said Helen Neuborne executive director of the now Legal defense and education fund. A. -. A a a a a a a. Quot but if somebody came in and raped you in bed that a very hard to talk about. It s a combination of the personal violation and wondering what will people think of me am i dirty am immoral Quot a a a a biology gave Arian the Quot structural capacity to rape Quot and left women structurally vulnerable unable to retaliate in kind Susan Browh Miller said in her landmark 1975 Book Quot against our will men women and  a. She traced the origin of rape to prehistoric times and said it entered the Law Quot through the Back door Quot As a properly. C rime in t he ancient Babylon Ian and hebrew cultures 7 7 a a a athe attacker in such cases was usually sentenced to. Death by drowning or stoning Brownmiller wrote. So was. The victim. Who was viewed As Quot culpable adulterous and irrevocably defiled Quot regardless of the circumstances. The concept of woman As seductress and. The. Root of sexual evil  to genesis said or. Nada Stotland chairwoman of the american psychiatric association s committee on women. Quot you have original sin Quot she said Quot you have eve being blamed Lor the sinful sexuality which not like is supposedly the  All have now. It was eve s fault for tempting  7. A. Even now  places that image dictates mores and behaviour. A if a woman shows 3 inches of flesh on her Arm in some Muslim countries it s her fault if she gets raped because that was so enticing to men Quot Stotland said. Quot it s not incumbent on the men to curb their impulses it s /. Incumbent on the women to keep from exciting them Quot Neuborne Points to kuwaiti women raped during the. Recent upheaval in their country As another example of How  not changed much in some parts of the a world. Quot they say they Are useless a she said of the raped women Quot they re never Able to get married. Their families Are disowning  a a a a a a / in the United states the last 20 years have seen some Progress toward breaking Down the stereotype of raped women As damaged goods somehow responsible Tor what happened to them. ,. Early in the -19703, rape victims began talking about a their experiences at feminist conferences women set up rape crisis centers and hot lines took classes in Sel defense studied rape Law and wrote new taws and started trying to sensitize hospitals police departments and courts to the plight of the rape  some extent they succeeded. Junes Are no longer. Advised to treat a victims testimony with caution. Defense attorneys Aren t supposed to dredge up a victim s sexual history. Marital rape is a crime in some. States there Are special training programs All Over the 1 country for doctors social workers judges lawyers and police who Deal with rape. A a a a Quot we Are obviously More 20th Century than Kuwait Quot. Neuborne said. Quot but there s still of piece of that attitude that people can to let go of. They still believe that a raped. Woman has a Scarlet r on her  ,. A women still for example. Mus Vork hard to establish a a a their credibility in a rape trial. No one can prevent the. A circulation of racy damaging stories about an alleged rape victim. Training in t sufficiently widespread a. Quot you d have to be very fortunate to have a sensitive. Doctor doing your medical checkup followed by a. Sensitive police officer a sensitive prosecutor Anco a a. Sensitive judge Quot Neuborne . Perhaps the most Felling evidence of the lingering stigma of rape is that according to several studies at least half of All victims do not report the crime to police. The Low reporting rate also reflects the considerable confusion some people have about what exactly a. A constitutes rape. This is apparent in surveys of both men and women who say they have never committed or. Suffered a rape and then answer yes to a series Ofa questions that embody the Legal definition of the crime. Brownmiller attributes the confusion in part to Freud who contended masochism was a sign of mature female. Sexuality. In other words rape is what a woman really wants a a a. Such mixed messages continue to dominate popular culture said Denise Snyder executive director of the pioneering District of Columbia rape crisis center.,. Founded in 1972. Quot wherever you want to look you see sex and violence linked together Quot she said. Quot you see a Norm where women Are supposed to be submissive and men Are supposed to be dominant and that combination is what makes Good .  cites scenes from Quot gone with the wind Quot and. Quot Henry and june Quot two films made by men to make her. Point. A a a a a a a a Quot a h a -. Quot the woman starts off saying no. Yelling. Pushing him away and by the end is overcome with passion and pleasure Quot Snyder said. A a a Quot. / Snyder and others say  rape victims Are continuing to change if incrementally. But while the stigma May eventually fade there will never be a Way to change the nature of rape. Quot a a. Quot it s an extremely intimate profoundly upsetting a event Quot said. Stotland Quot even if you weren t ashamed of it you would t want it in the paper. There Are certain things you want to Deal with in your. Own. Time and convey to. People of your own choice.�?�. A. Readers action Lineon Standard form 171 a a riling to got some answers on the veterans preference on the Standard form 171 application for. Federal employment. What t would like 1o know is who sol these standards a a a. A. Quot / according to the form you must be sepia ated irom. Calivo duly under honorable conditions have served. A during a specific time Frame have received or were entitled to receive a Campaign badge . A medal or you  a disabled Veteran now. My question is Why Are some poor. Services members being singled out some of us did. A a Servo m the armed forces during the times mentioned. Have Honor Able discharges but to Don t have tie. Medals or Are not disabled. A. A. In order to gel the medals you Tisl have  a to Wlliet not All of us were in a conflict a i think the standards should he  outer to be fair to All of us. We Are veterans and no one or no form. Should Tell us differently. -. A Quot. Mary Ann Burton 7 Frankfurt Germany i James m. Biggs personnel management specialist he Usa eur office of the Deputy chief of staff personnel civilian personnel division replies a a a a. 7 a. A a the writer is Correct i noting that the sr-171 specifies various requirements that an applicant must meet in order to be eligible for the different types of Veteran preference. A a a. 7 the basis for veterans preference in Federal employment is the veterans preference act of 1944, As. Amended therefore any changes in the requirements must be made through legislation. 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