ator. It is absolutely true that society and the law, as the author says, see the man and the woman as playing certain sexual roles based on the man's "natural" aggression and the woman's "natural" resistance to that aggression.Why should the burden be on the victim in date rape to prove that she resisted an act which she did not want to participate in and which is an invasion of her being on all levels---physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual?
For example, it is argued by society and the law, as Pineau points out, that the woman is in part or wholly responsible for the sexual act occurring if she dresses provocatively or in some subtle way communicates to the man that she seeks sex with him. Would society say the same about a person who flashed around a big wad of cash in a bar, "flaunting" his or her money, and a thief saw this as a provocative invitation to steal that money and therefore did so? Would the victim in that case have his or her case rejected because he or
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