Once again, we are being treated to a tutorial on how “real” rape victims do and do not behave. And once again, what we’re being told is nonsense.
In a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday, a lawyer for prolific convicted predator Harvey Weinstein suggested that his client could not have raped California’s First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, years ago.
Why? Because in 2007, two years after the alleged assault, Siebel Newsom emailed Weinstein to ask his advice on how to handle “bad press” about her then-boyfriend Gavin Newsom’s affair with a married aide when he was mayor of San Francisco.
