First of all, I will apologize for making the rash generalization I made about frat boys in college in my last post. I knew it was a generalization when I made it, but perhaps a tad bit of anger crept in to my thought process. Nevertheless, the college fraternity (and sorority) scenes do tend to have atmospheres of libertinism and disrespect for the opposite sex. In fairness, I do know a few fraternity guys who were not pigs when they were in college. But, I have heard stories of horrible things like what happened to “Donna” and it makes a normal guy like me very upset. If my wife had indeed been date raped by that Saudi many years ago, and I found out about it, I think I would indeed want to pay the scumbucket a visit and administer kafir justice. You have to understand: I’m Catholic, born in 1955, which means I was raised a certain way and with certain expectations of how we are to conduct ourselves. I am also the father of two teenage daughters, so you can well imagine what would happen to my blood pressure if this happened to one of my girls. And if I had sons (which I don’t)and if one of my boys was raped I’d be fit to be tied too. Next to murder, rape has to be the most heinous crime one can commit.
As for the two females on this thread, “Mary Jackson” and “Lea,” all I can say is that their lack of appreciation of the gravity and veracity of this sort of this stuns me. There is a kind of clinical coldness in how they approach this topic that is unmistakable. How this has come to be I do not know. I have never been raped, either as a child or as an adult. I’ve never been sexually molested as a child or adolescent. I’m fortunate that way, believe me I know how lucky I am. So, why is it that I can certainly appreciate the stories of “Mike” and “James” even though I was never a victim of that crime? All I can say is that human beings who lack empathy and compassion scare the dickens out of me.
