Re: For feminists - The bottom line about rape

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:00:27 +1100, "Darkfalz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>A lot of women get raped by exercising their rights. Their right to dress
>slutty and still feel safe. Their right to be alone with a guy they barely
>know, being drunk, and expecting him to respect her boundaries. Their right
>to be sexually assertive, even agressive, but still have the right to say
>"no" at any time.
>
>Listen, idiots, this is the bottom line.
>
>You may have the legal right to do any and all of those things, but do you
>WANT to be raped? Or more specifically, would you like to AVOID being raped?
>
>The answer is probably yes.
>
>Curtailing all of the above behaviours will massively minimise your risk of
>being raped. You have to accept having the right to do something doesn't
>make you invincible. I may have the right to provoke someone twice my size,
>but if I do it I'm liable to get my skull cracked. I may have the right to
>walk down a dark alley at night in a bad neighbourhood in expensive clothes,
>but odds are if it happens, I'm going to get mugged - even killed.
>
>Use your common sense and get over this idea that "independence" means
>constantly tempting fate by doing stupid things.
>
>Rape (outside of prisons) is avoidable in 99.9% of sitatuations. This goes
>for adult women, naturally a child being abused may not be able to avoid it,
>but if you're an adult then you really have no excuse for not keeping
>yourself safe.
>
>So if you don't want to be raped, it's entirely in your hands. And if you
>have been raped, for God sakes, LEARN FROM IT and don't let it happen again.

That's a fascinating take on things.

While I think reasonable safety precautions are a good idea, I'd be
interested to know how you think the victim of Marcellus Jacob invoked
her own rape by her behaviour. In that case, Jacob broke into the home
of a woman he didn't know, duct taped her, raped and sodomised her at
knife point, forced various noxious substances including bear spray
(pepper spray) into her orifices, and otherwise tortured her for five
hours. She was just home minding her own business. Here's the news
report: http://www.whitehorsestar.com/ I was in town at the time. I
remember it well. It was in the press during my own daughter's
hospitalisation for the results of her having been abducted on her way
to school and raped at knifepoint for four and a half or so hours -
different town, different perp.

Cele