How are women to defend themselves against gang rape? She can't , not even if she tries to defend herself if she can, with being violent herself, it doesn't work, also if a woman has been plied with alcohol or given drugs, she can't fight back and is often unaware and it's too late when she finds out she has been raped, by then any evidence is also gone. All this plus the post-trauma she may suffer and then she may not find out for months or years after being raped. It is all to often found that a woman who has drank alcohol or used some form of drug, she is not classed as a rape victim but a ' Slut ', even the judicial system won't help to defend her if she has drank alcohol or used a drug. Yet again would the victim have freely used a drug, or been tricked into ingesting it? It happens to both sorts of women, but what people don't understand is that when a woman uses drugs she may be hiding the pain of abuses she has already suffered, the same is also true if she drinks alcohol to ease away pain. Far too many men also try to ply the woman with some alcohol, so that she has no case for rape.
Women are still viewed in the judicial system as property and objects, perhaps the law also needs changing, and regard the woman not as property & rape against the State, but as a human being. The battle against women & rape is sexism in the British Judicial system itself, plus the recognition that women are indeed no match for men intending rape, there is inequality between the sexes, men will always be able to overcome women if they intend rape, as many women by thier own definition in reaction towards rape is shock, they freeze and do not cry for help or even scream, there are too many men who will pick a victim that has suffered child abuse already, with that background they will always have the upperhand too. It is easier to continue victimisation through an already known victim. Lindsay Armstrong may have had a weak back, but many women have already weakend emotions.

I myself have suffered sexual abuse & rape, i have suffered many rapes including drug rape. My parents were ignorant, wouldn't listen & when they did hear & believe that i was gang raped on holiday because it was my step-brother that told them as he was a witness at the time, they still treated it as ' how sad never mind it tough sh*t ' it happened and there isn't anything anyone can do. I have had most of my life taken away from me finding it difficult to cope with enough energy, i have also felt suicidal quite a few times, i have also practiced self-harm for quite some time.
I was also told by others that raped me ' it's your word against mine & we can get away with it ' and also i have had dissociation because of drug rapes repeatedly.
On top of which when i entered into counselling when in my early forties for sexual abuse & rape, i was left in a terrible state, suicidal & i made a mistake of reporting rapes that happened years ago to the police in a distressed state, the treatment from police was that i was a ' slut ' and that i was worthless. Every message that i have recieved is that Britain truly stinks!!!! where women & rape is concerned! Many women are left in my position and no-one cares from parents to men as well as the authorities.
We are ultimately left to suffer in silence & also told that it is a serious allegation to cry rape at the same time. It's about time that women struck back, screw the law & get violent back at men because the law protects these raping men, it is no wonder that my parents also thought that there isn't anything that you can do either most of the time, not just thier backgrounds of being emotionally un-intelligent, it's also the authorities who handle these cases first hand as well that are to blame!
The message should be that men who rape women & who think thatthey can get away with it &pass the message on to others so that they too can generate rape of women should be violently attacked themselves & shown that this is not the case!