fp,
You know what you win at? Failing.
I don’t even think YOU know what you are talking about.
What you really want to do, (i can only guess) clearly by the VERY little that is decipherable in your comments, is this: To claim the old-view right that rape is a direct result of the present “culture” of women’s freedom to be “sluts, to drink, and in-a-sense be free to be themselves.” Amiright? Probably.
That leads me to believe that you think rape is all of a sudden some NEW anomolly. Like old granny’s, and burqa-wearing women, children, students, daughters, nieces, granddaughters, employees, mentally and physically handicapped women never get raped? In FACT, these type of cases are much more prevelant than actual “sluts, whores, prostitutes and other not-nice girls” being raped.
The fact is fp, rape is ALWAYS an act of violence, and power. Every normal mother (YFZ idiots excluded) warms her daughters to be wary of men in some way, shape, or form. Daughters become women who want to be close to men, we like men, we love men and want NOT to believe our mothers. However, considering 1 in 4 will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime by a male, and usually males they know, we gotta always be on guard. Quite frankly, that sucks. Who the heck wants to go through life thinking be afraid. Men are reduced to being thought of as nothing more than animals who’ll attack us. THIS SUCKS. It sucks for us and it should suck for you now, moreso, because not only is it NOT cool to lay blame at the “drunk” “slut”, “provocatively dressed” “cocktease” it just a defense in a oourt of law anymore. WHY? Because our “culture” has caught up with the idea that rape isn’t the RESULT of the aforementioned behaviour of the woman because past history and history of rape clearly shows that men will rape any sort of woman regardless or dress and behaviour.
This revelation bugs men. And it SHOULD. Just not for the reasons it apparently bugs the majority of men on this thread and others because it means that men and some idiot women NOW have to change not only the ridiculous mindset of “she deserved it,” but they (men) actually have to work on themselves in a culture now onto what they have always been capable of. So basically it is up to men to keep themselves out of jail by behaving BETTER. And that means (as it relates to Heather’s article) in the college culture that is today, men should think twice about banging the drunk chick. Or take the chance that she wont remember being banged, not unlike the “girlfriend” experience and taking a chance the girl you’re banging WON’T get pregnant.
The responsibility for having been raped has shifted from the woman and is now solely on the man within this new college culture and the new consent laws and like any NEW thing, it’s not an easy thing to accept for certain backward-thinking people.
