More on Private Practice

50th post! Yay me!

Anyway back to Erika's blog about tv shows that annoy her.

Private Practice. Sick of it yet? Me too. But I'll keep watching it for god knows what reason. So this week in Charlottes recovery she saw a lawyer who refused to charge her rapist. Sad as this is, it happens. The lawyer, a woman, apparently top of her class at Stanford, never lost a rape case, refused to take on Charlottes case because she was certain it would lose. Charlotte is a sexual deviant (met guys on the internet and had sex with them for fun. God what a whore!) and initially lied to the police about her rape out of shame.

I'm really pissed at this lawyer character. This might sound really cynical but this character is really unrealistic. That a woman get to the top of her class at Stanford and then chooses to work in rape cases is unbelievable. I just don't see that happening. Now that she never lost a rape case is actually a bit believable, only because she picks and chooses which ones are solid cases. Yes, it's true that Charlottes case would be difficult to win. We live in a world where slut shaming is a legitimate tactic in courts. But this lawyer probably only tried a few cases of stranger rape where the rapist broke into the survivors house and then left a shit ton of evidence. This solves the problem of knowing who the rapist is and that tricky problem of women leaving the home. I mean if a woman is raped in her own home, no one can say "well why was she out in the first place?" Which works as well as slut shaming. Blaming the victim of course makes the rest of the world feel safer by saying "this happened to her because she did A, and I would never do that." Cods. Wallop.

Anyway, I'm interested in seeing how the rest of this story plays out. Although, I bet this guy goes out and rapes another woman before he's finally brought to justice.

If the writers want to make it really realistic, they should send him to jail for a month and then let him go. Sad, but true.