“A Wairarapa woman sexually violated by two lesbians says she cannot believe women could do that to her — and wants to tell her story so other lesbian sex attack victims will come forward. The woman said Kristina Oliver — jailed on Thursday for her part in the December 2003 attack — also kicked her and broke several ribs, scratched her back and bit the webs of her fingers. Oliver had told her she loved her. Oliver’s cane-toting lover, Lynette Stewart, egged her on. ‘Go for it, go,’ she urged. The women then sexually attacked her, inflicting injuries a doctor later described as the worst she had seen in treating more than 100 sexual abuse patients… The victim befriended her attackers after meeting Oliver through the Masterton mental health drop-in centre where Oliver worked. The attack happened after the pair invited her to their home for dinner. The victim said the evening initially went well. The trio drank coffee, smoked cannabis and talked about past relationships. But when she tried to leave, Oliver became violent. ‘She went from being really nice to a different person straight away… it was like a demonic power. They were really evil.’ As the women assaulted her and then violated her, she thought she would die. ‘I tried not to cry because I know… abusers like to see their victims break. I didn’t want them to see that.’ The victim said the past two years had been difficult. Her relationship had broken up and she had moved town. She hoped her story would encourage other women who had been assaulted by women to speak out.” — Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand)

People have a habit of settling into certain assumptions about gender: men are more active and women more passive in their sexuality, men need to stick everything they can while women look for security and stability, etc., etc.

But then along comes a story like this. More than any feminist propaganda or didactic tale of role-defying behavior, this really bends your notions of gender. Usually it’s men who commit rapes, right? Every once in a while you hear about a female schoolteacher having an inappropriate fling with a student, or you read about a wife or girlfriend who colludes with some guy committing a rape. But how often do you hear of an adult woman — or two women, as in this case — raping another? It’s so rare that the victim herself could scarcely believe what was happening to her.

And yet rarity is not impossibility, so out of the millions of rapes that occur every year — is it really millions? — a few improbable ones are bound to happen. What are you to make of them when they do? Are they simply aberrations, statistical freaks in the otherwise graphable trends of violence and rape? Or do they form their own subterranean history, a category of events that no one speaks about because they seem so counterintuitive? In a weird way, you almost hope the latter is true — not because you want to get off on the cat fights but because it’s already hard enough to be the victim of a sex crime. Imagine how much harder it must be when you’re the lone victim, a victim without peer, a victim with no one to talk to because no one can really quite understand what happened to you.

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