Melinda Henneberger writes the “She The People” blog for the Washington Post. She has an interesting column today about the political battle surrounding Indiana Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock’s recent comment that a rape resulting in pregnancy is “something that God intended.” (See Tina Fey’s take here.) Henneberger has covered Mourdock quite a bit, and she explains why his remark is not as terrible as Todd Akin’s. Most of the column, though, is dedicated to explaining why politicians shouldn’t use the issue of rape to score political points. Near the end of the column, Henneberger explains that she too is a survivor of rape:
“At 26, I myself was raped, by a man who called just before our dinner date to say darn, how embarrassing, his car was in the shop, and could I maybe pick him up at his house instead? I knocked, was promptly thrown on the floor in the entryway, and after the attack, he laughed that no one would believe me, a junior nobody who’d just hit town, over a good-looking, well-off guy like him, who obviously didn’t have any trouble getting a date. Oh, and who is it who’d showed up at whose house again?”
She says she regrets not pressing charges. She doesn’t name the man, but she does say where he lives:
“He could still be playing that trick; if you live in Dallas, Texas and have been thrown onto that same foyer floor, call me, and now I will testify.”
