Teen: I Was Raped by 4 200-Pound Women

[haele]

218. Men rape women, women rape men.

Men rape men, women rape women.
Unlike the first type of assault, the others usually don't get reported because (in my observation/opinion) there's the cultural aspect of strength or position of power involved; the other types of victimization are more "equal footing" assaults than the first and it is expected that the victim is better able to avoid the assault than in the first - that either it was just a case of consensual or organizational horseplay gone wrong/"mean girlz" (i.e. females who commit the crime of assault/rape, because for some reason, females are "not supposed to feel the need to establish dominance"...) or some sort of vigilante "they had it coming" situation. At least in the western world, the other three are too often considered less of a crime.

I don't agree with those who would laugh or shrug off the other types of rape. Rape is rape is rape is rape, no matter who inflicts it on whom, and there is no difference of severity of the crime of rape dependent on strength, gender, social position, "looks" or any other factor between the perpetrator and victim.
Rape is assault; it is about taking control over someone else using their own personal and/or sexual vulnerabilities, not about the sex itself. It's scary, brutish, and leaves the victim - whomever that victim is - feeling dirty and helpless; whether or not there is physical damage, it is a mental/emotional assault that leaves lasting mental damage, and affects the life (and activity) of the victim and by extension, the victim's circle of acquaintance (family, friends, co-workers, people they subsequently meet) from that point on.
The only other circumstance to be considered with such an assault is the battery portion - the physical damage.
It doesn't take away from the severity of men against women rape to point this out, or to say that we as a society needs to recognize that other types of rape go on.

I know this is "man bites dog" case - which is one of the reasons it is posted here (well, other than to rile up some controversy with gender politics).

As to why the newspaper would print it (as they don't usually print this sort of thing) perhaps it was a warning about a gang of women going about preying on individuals that are out and about alone or incapacitated late at night, and this teen was the only male so far that was willing to go through with reporting the incident for a possible arrest.

Haele