icemilkcoffee:

One big problem is that a good number of women who have been raped made little or no attempts to fight off their rapists. I think women should be encouraged to fight off their rapist as much as possible. If nothing else, it would leave enough physical evidence that leaves no doubt about 'consent'.

That's like asking a child to fight back against a child molester. The difference in strength between most men and women is _significant_. In most cases, a man who chooses to can easily beat a woman to death.

There are, however, a few things a woman can do. For example, a woman can wear a breakable vial of skunk oil and break it, if necessary. (That might be even more effective than soiling herself.) Sure, it's even more unpleasant for the woman to endure the stink, but at least she need not suffer lifelong PTSD from it.

I read of another solution that happened in South Africa. According to the story (which may be true), a rapist abducted a middle-class woman in her own car, and made her drive into the country-side to rape her. When he got on top of her she pulled out a small lock-back pocketknife clipped to her clothes somehow (with the stud for one-handed opening I presume), plunged it hard into his upper thigh and RIPPED a long, deep gash into his leg. As he lay there screaming in pain (and, one hopes, bleeding to death), she got back into her car and drove off.

Date rape, however, may be too psychologically complex to expect the woman to sufficiently de-humanize her attacker to deal with it appropriately.