Also men are usually stronger than women.
It's not always about strength past a point either, the same arguments can be done for questioning why a woman couldn't have defended herself by kicking the guy in the balls, punching in his adam's apple, pushing fingers into his eyes, headbutting his nose into his skull, etc.
It's really more about what it does to the victim's mind imo, the physical excuse applies poorly to both sexes as a red herring point. People aren't built to be raped, it fucks with the wiring no matter who you are.
You are Right, also, the rapist could have a weapon, such as a knife, or come while the victim is asleep and get on them while they are in bed
Even without a weapon it's not like people go into those situations with a game plan. Fear doesn't just make people flee and fight, more than often enough it makes a person freeze in place from confusion and overstimulation. Even repeated offenses does not denote that the victim is suddenly willing, the brain goes through all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to understand what just happened.
It's more of an emotional toil than anything, the idea that someone could be that predatory towards you when they'd prior not seemed like such a monster, that you aren't always going to be in control of everything in your life and that others can just take it from you, then realizing that if your abuser is capable of this that tons of other people are as well.
Rape's no joke, which is why those who falsely accuse it are some of 'the worst' to me. For every time that someone claims 'rape' when it's not occurring it stands to make real rape victims' voices less heard, but for the flipside if every single rape accusation is taken as fact the system will stand to become more abused. It's a Catch 22 that has me wish there was some way that those who weren't real victims could be stopped in their tracks from making the environment that much more confusing and unhelpful towards the aforementioned real victims.
This is also why I don't just immediately side with the one claiming it, every rape story needs scrutiny these days or it doesn't really mean anything.
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