![]() Kate Harding, author of “Asking for It” and “Lessons From the Fat-o-Sphere,” at the Stone Arch Bridge. “Unless there’s evidence beyond the victim’s word that any sex between two parties wasn’t consensual, chances are excellent that the perpetrator can get away with it.” ![]() “In reality, only a small percentage of those reports are proven false, but we’ve essentially created a situation in which everyone gets at least one free rape,” she wrote. On her website, she mused how it’s easier on our sanity to think that accusers lie and that not acting on reports actually protects the innocent. But she has this level gaze, as flat and formidable as the Stone Arch Bridge, even as she’s making one of the wry, often sardonic, observations that set her new book, “Asking for It,” apart from similar books. Sitting in a coffee shop, picking at a blueberry muffin, she doesn’t appear particularly fearless. But “rape culture” - a term from the 1970s - not only isn’t abating, but is thriving, prompting Harding to press the issue of how to change this situation. The task requires a degree of fearlessness, given the anger, denial, backlash and passion that the topic inspires. ![]() Kate Harding knows she could lead an easier life. ![]()
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