Canadian Rape Case Is A Celebration Of Victim-Blaming  In 2006,
a Canadian man forced a woman he had met at a bar in Manitoba to
have sex with him, and he was charged with rape. During his
trial, his attorneys insisted that he thought that sexual
consent was implied, and a judge ruled that what the defendant
did was technically rape, but it wasn't rape-rape because the
fact that woman was all gussied up in heels and fancy clothes
meant that "sex was in the air." Dubbing the assailant a "clumsy
Don Juan," the judge doled out a sentence involving zero jail
time. Now, it looks like even the slap on the wrist that the
Oopsie Daisy Clumsy Rapist received may be in danger of being
thrown out.  Convicted of rape (but of someone who was sort of
kind of asking for it, according to the judge), Kenneth Rhodes
was ultimately given what essentially amounted to 2 year
probation with a year of surveillance.  In papers filed in Mid-
October, the Canadian government admitted that the judge in
charge of the original trial, Robe