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KitSileya

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5. It is sexual assault, no question about it.
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 05:03 AM
Feb 2014

She resists, he gets physical. Anything we see after that is questionable - just because it seems like she submits because she wants it after his restraining her, it is a typical way of survival when being raped to pretend to go along with your rapist. It might stop him from doing worse things, like killing you. I defy anyone to use that as an excuse for rape. You might as well say that if you do what a mugger says when he puts a gun to your head is you agreeing to being mugged, and it shouldn't be counted as a mugging then.

As for the excuse that she is just a robot, well, she is a sentient, intelligent being with self-determination. Just because the police have the right to kill those androids who don't follow the rules, doesn't mean they are less sentient and without the right to determine what happens to their own bodies. That's the argument of slave owners. If she had been an alien with green skin, would that have made a difference in whether it is rape or not?

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