Baiting Bears
And the Rest of the Story
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Dragnet, a 1950s TV cop show produced by Jack Webb, always
announced, "The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names
have been changed, to protect the innocent." The story that you're
about to read in this article is true. Only her name has been changed,
but her innocence is debatable. This story was told to me, a good many years ago, by a woman who I'll call Deanne. According to her, it happened a few years earlier, during a time when she was between husbands, after a particularly bitter divorce. She said that she hated all men and that she was trying to get even with them.
One man started courting her, and she gave every indication of being receptive
to his advances. He took her on several dates and, everywhere that
they went, she was as provocative as possible. Whenever he started
to get aroused, she'd push him away and call a halt to things. She
openly admitted to me that she'd been trying to torment him, to get even with him for the way that she believed that she'd been mistreated by men.
One evening, they were at a party at somebody's house. She was sitting on his lap, being (as usual) as provocative as possible. Suddenly,
she got up and started to walk away. He got up, took her by the arm,
pulled her out the door of the house, and to his car. He pushed her
into the passenger seat, walked around the car, got in, and drove to his
place. By her own admission, she didn't make any effort to resist him
or to escape. She didn't object or even get back out of the car while
he was walking around to his side. When they arrived at his place,
he walked around the car, opened her door, escorted her into his house and
into his bedroom. He undressed her, helped her into the bed, and raped
her. That's what she said. She said that he raped her.
That's the story, exactly as she told it to me. And now for the rest of the story. By her own admission, Deanne provided as much provocation as possible. She didn't, at any time after he
led her out of the house, make any effort to question his intentions or to
resist his behavior. After the so-called rape, and by her own admission,
she spent the remainder of the night with him, and began a relationship that, according to her, lasted for several years. It's true that actual rapes really do happen but Deanne's story, and others, provide cause for caution when evaluating a charge of rape. To the extent that a man is guilty of misbehavior, he should be held accountable. To the extent that a woman is guilty of provoking his misbehavior, she should be held accountable. Provocation, itself, can be a form of misbehavior, and one to which women are often inclined. Men are neither saints nor machines. Any man,
if he's sufficiently provoked, will mistreat a woman. A person who's
baiting a bear is running the risk of being mauled, and we shouldn't necessarily
always blame the bear. As Paul Harvey used to say, that's the rest of the story. Good day.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sam,
Thank you for the August 2021 Frontiersman. In regards to your story "the near side of the line....", your numbers sound right, and although at first, 82.4 million refugees might sound like a lot, it really isn't, as a matter of fact, it's going to get a lot worse. Right now, we have 1% of the world's population that's migrating from place to place, trying to find what? A place where they can open their own 7-11 store, or a place to build an influencer website? No, these are people who, where they were don't even have the most basic of necessities to live. Some are on the move because of religious freedoms aren't
being honored by the majority. But I don't buy that "religious choice" is the true cause. Overpopulation causes people to become tribal, xenophobia, nationalistic, etc. Natural resources are becoming harder to get, and with corporate capitalistic greed trying to do a grab at the crumbs that are left, we are so close to having a society, not unlike the movie "Soylent Green". I noticed on the news, a statistic that makes no sense, given the current overpopulation problem. It said, for the first time in history, more white people died last year than were born, where all other minority groups experienced a population boom. I call bullshit. How did they
come to this realization? How do 
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