Robin Camp #sexist cnn.com

A Canadian federal judge who asked a woman in a rape trial why she couldn't keep her knees together resigned Thursday after a disciplinary council recommended he be removed from the bench.
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Camp argued that "unconscious bias" was to blame for the offending comments. In addition to asking the 19-year-old why she didn't keep her knees together to fend off her alleged attacker, he also asked her why she didn't "skew her pelvis" to avoid penetration.
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Camp made the comments as a provincial court judge in a 2014 trial. He became a federal judge in 2015.
He also remarked that, "Some sex and pain sometimes go together ... that's not necessarily a bad thing."
Camp acquitted the accused man and offered him some advice:
"I want you to tell your friends, your male friends, that they have to be far more gentle with women. They have to be far more patient. And they have to be very careful. To protect themselves, they have to be very careful."

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