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A Romanian Angelina Jolie lookalike has been convicted for "forcing a man to have sex with her" twice before stabbing him six times for being unable to perform a third time.
The married father of three, Nicolae Stan, has since become an unwilling local celebrity, teased constantly by friends who can't understand why he would refuse a woman so beautiful.
Luminita Perijoc, who apparently bases her look on Jolie, claims to have been on heavy medication at the time, and has received a four year suspended sentence, reports the New York Daily News.
Everything about this story displays yet another horrifying aspect of rape culture.
Men might make up the minority of rape victims, but this is no reason to dismiss them. As this story shows almost perfectly, society's treatment of male rape survivors is shockingly cruel.
Even though this man was clearly raped, the reports breaking about this story seem to steer clear of the term.
A seemingly small thing, but in a world where the perception is often that men can't be raped, the fact that it's "rape" when the victim is a woman, and "forced sex" when it is a man is extremely troubling.
Even more worrying is the way the man is now being taunted and teased for refusing to have sex with his rapist at knifepoint.
For rape and attempted murder, Perijoc's four year sentence seems unjustly short, while Stan feels he has been given a life sentence, as he'll never live being raped down.
The rapist is a beautiful woman, (or, as most report this story, "She looks like Angelina Jolie! Here are pictures of Angelina Jolie!") and the rape victim is a man, therefore he is expected to want to have sex with her; and the fact that he refused her, or was "unable to perform", is treated as ludicrous.
This obsessive belief that men should always be ready and willing to have sex all the time and should never be expected to want to turn down women, especially beautiful women, is unspeakably damaging to men.
It guarantees that a male rape survivor can expect not just a lack of sympathy, but open teasing and mocking if he is raped, and that only leads to more rape survivors staying silent rather than speaking out.
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The married father of three, Nicolae Stan, has since become an unwilling local celebrity, teased constantly by friends who can't understand why he would refuse a woman so beautiful.
Luminita Perijoc, who apparently bases her look on Jolie, claims to have been on heavy medication at the time, and has received a four year suspended sentence, reports the New York Daily News.
Everything about this story displays yet another horrifying aspect of rape culture.
Men might make up the minority of rape victims, but this is no reason to dismiss them. As this story shows almost perfectly, society's treatment of male rape survivors is shockingly cruel.
Even though this man was clearly raped, the reports breaking about this story seem to steer clear of the term.
A seemingly small thing, but in a world where the perception is often that men can't be raped, the fact that it's "rape" when the victim is a woman, and "forced sex" when it is a man is extremely troubling.
Even more worrying is the way the man is now being taunted and teased for refusing to have sex with his rapist at knifepoint.
For rape and attempted murder, Perijoc's four year sentence seems unjustly short, while Stan feels he has been given a life sentence, as he'll never live being raped down.
The rapist is a beautiful woman, (or, as most report this story, "She looks like Angelina Jolie! Here are pictures of Angelina Jolie!") and the rape victim is a man, therefore he is expected to want to have sex with her; and the fact that he refused her, or was "unable to perform", is treated as ludicrous.
This obsessive belief that men should always be ready and willing to have sex all the time and should never be expected to want to turn down women, especially beautiful women, is unspeakably damaging to men.
It guarantees that a male rape survivor can expect not just a lack of sympathy, but open teasing and mocking if he is raped, and that only leads to more rape survivors staying silent rather than speaking out.
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