On Rape and Politics

 

I’ve been a card carrying feminist since forever.

I’ve had friends raped. I have friends and myself who have been sexual harassed in different degrees. I deplore it all.

Now we come down to the Maine Senatorial candidate.

I don’t know if he’s guilty or not. The timing is such and as filthy as politics are, it could be a move for the opposition to get rid of a candidate that could unseat Susan Collins.

Rapists should not sit in Congress. I also remember that:

• The U.S. president is a convicted rapist.
• A supreme Court Justice is a suspected rapist.
• Susan Collins voted to put a suspected rapist on the Supreme Court.

All three of them should not by in office.

The reality is that even if Platner is innocent, his chances of being found innocent in time for the election put the results of the November election in jeopardy.

As a feminist I want to think the woman is innocent. 

But how would you prove her guilty? How do you prove that with no rape kit, no bank account verification that she is being paid off? 

Just writing about the possibility of guilt or innocent about another woman bothers me, but in this toxic world, that thought runs through my mind along with the words "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sor...) marching through my head.