We should care about rape simply insofar as it harms many and various human beings
Australia is currently being rocked by Brittany Higgins’s allegations that she was raped at Parliament House by a male colleague in March 2019. Higgins, then 24, was a mere four weeks into her “dream job” of working for the then defence industry minister, Linda Reynolds, when a “rising star” in the Liberal party took Higgins back to Parliament House after hours. Allegedly, after an evening of drinks he then raped her on an office couch, while she was unconscious. Higgins says she had passed out, intoxicated, but came to during the alleged attack: “I woke up mid-rape. I told him to stop. I was crying ... I couldn’t get him off and I couldn’t stop it.” She adds: “He wasn’t even looking at me. It felt like I was sort of a body that was there. It didn’t feel like it was anything about me.”
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