Re: For feminists - The bottom line about rape

"Cele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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/

The link just takes you to the paper but not the story. Maybe you have to be
registered?

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